Hal 9000

Hokk gazette!

I remember the Cantina band on a Taco Bell poster, maybe it was that!

Oh boy. With this quarantine I could sure use a Tatooine taco about now… and drink through Watto’s spine.

Maybe if we’re lucky the Mandalorian will make a joke out of having Fett say his 4 OT lines in some context.

“And then I says to the guy, ‘Hey! Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.’”

Nice, thanks!

Heroes leave Pasaana

Falcon is towed to the Destroyer. Leads into Palpatine and Kylo’s conversation about what kind of game he’s playing and he better watch out, buster.

Heroes regroup on the ship and decide fuck Threepio. They land on Kijimi and meet Frick and decide to do the surgery.

Hux sarcastically asks if Kylo wants them to destroy the city and gets a stern pointing to.

3PO and heroes continue on, Rey senses Chewie is alive, and 3PO wakes back up.

Blast doors open to reveal Chewie. Hux comments, Pryde sends Chewie off.

Kylo heads down to the planet. Things play out from there.

Except that after the heroes leave the Destroyer and Rey has a conversation with Finn about wanting to destroy Palpatine, we go directly to their arrival on Endor/Craft Beer.

I just implemented moving Chewie’s reveal to after Rey senses him, and the evil Skype call to where the Chewie reveal used to be. It seems like a very natural set of transitions, story wise and with the A/V.

You hinted at changing dialogue somewhere. I just began the Chewie scene with the blast door opening, skipping the coy and now out of place “so, we uh… found a cool… prisoner” part. I used a stock blast door sound effect to lessen the bleed of the music from the lead up and it seems natural to me.

But his voiceover for ESB suuuuuucks…

It’s beautiful.

Hey that’s not bad, if that’s the line!

Ohh, good one.

If the droids can be in the chess scene, all the better. Maybe an alternate delivery of the famous line (from the radio drama or something) could end the interior portion with, “Let the Wookiee win.”

(Eh, maybe not.)

Yeah, it’s an attempt to make the fleet Imperial rather than coming out of JJ’s ass.

Dominic made a good point about not talking about Rey, since it does t tell us anything we don’t see immediately.

To move crawl discussion for this project into its own thread, here’s my current draft. Could stand some tweaking yet.

Episode IX
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
Across the galaxy, the spark of hope lives on. To suffocate a growing uprising, the tyrannical First Order has silenced communication between neighboring systems.

Attempting to unite the disparate rebelling worlds, General Leia Organa dispatches her brave agents across the stars to fan the flame of Resistance.

Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren has traveled to Mustafar in search of a rumored Imperial fleet that would allow him to destroy any threat to his power…

Of course I don’t mind using anything of mine.

Yeah, maybe, but the stronger opening is Poe saying “okay we got 5 minutes” or whatever the says in the cockpit.

Unrelated: without the lightspeed skipping sequence, Finn only has one thing to comment on of Poe’s “shifty stuff,” when he hotwires the speeder on Pasaana. It’d be ideal to remove his line of “yeah well I’ll tell you when you talk about all that shifty stuff you do” but cutting it straight out makes for an unworkably abrupt cut to the next shot. Not the biggest deal to keep the line, but worth mentioning as a slight current issue.

Yes, good insights!

I like the idea of silencing communication because it can tie into Poe’s feeling of being alone without help, and the FO’s strategy of making them feel they’re alone.

Ben mystically impregnates Rey as he heals her with his hand on her stomach.

Yeah, baby!

Wasn’t it Kasdan that reacted that way, with JJ jumping in to clarify he was “just messing with you”?

krausfadr said:

Moving the Falcon chess game to the end is a brilliant idea! Also the coolest transition is from Chewbacca yelling-- to Rey leaving the ship, but this clearly is not working. And another establishing shot is probably not the best way to fix it. The problem going on is there are no audio or visual cues telling us that they’ve landed. We’re watching them play chess on a ship that sounds like it’s cruising through space, then suddenly in the next scene Rey is walking off the ship.

In this rough clip I’ve started with a shot of the Falcon flying and later inside the ship added some sounds and movement giving cues that the Falcon landed:

https://youtu.be/-5iy3sz0e-o

That’s good, and helps sell it. I haven’t tried it yet, but I imagine this sequence:

The Resistance reunion scene quietly fades to black.

Cut to the Falcon in hyperspace, then to the interior as the chess game is going on.

After the line, “You’re 200 years older than us, of course you’re gonna be better at this,” cut to the Falcon flying over Jawas. (Or even a new FX shot of exiting hyperspace within a binary system, possibly borrowing or augmenting TPM footage.) The alert sound can be heard before the cut, signaling their approach toward their destination.

Rey exits the ship, does her ritual, changes her name, and heads back into the Falcon to ride off into the sunsets. (No footage exists, but it would have been good for Rey to make eye contact with the rest on her way over and be welcomed back inside.)

I think the ‘Reunion’ or friendship theme is better for Rey sensing Chewie is alive. It plays as we see he’s alive, also.

If I’m given frosting in lieu of cake, may as well add sprinkles.

I dunno, it’d make some sense in light of other potential changes to have Ochi die on Jakku…

JEDIT: Aaaaand, there’s already a reason for Rey not to be familiar with the festival, since it takes place once in 42 years.

Octorox said:

I’m split on the Jango Clone thing. After seeing all how they were used and abused in Clone Wars I kind of don’t want to put them through any more suffering lol

Don’t worry, the originals are all long dead. Each clone only suffered at most the maximum of a single human being. Even less if you factor in their sped up lifespan.

Replace it with “melancholy” and “exuberant.”