Hal 9000

I really don’t see a need to assign Palpatine any AI lines, at least for the Rey Palpatine version. I find myself as the naysayer at the moment about that aspect.

I agree that Rey’s parents still do need to be set up, but that dialogue for him sounds perfect for the Rey Nobody version of this.

I like the idea of Jannah attributing her company’s own awakening to Finn’s, like a ripple effect. Might just be a touch weird she does not react to him identifying himself or that she doesn’t recognize him on sight.

I do like that improvement on the line, but it’s implied she doesn’t trust him. It’s a fair idea, but I don’t want to crack open TLJ:L again for it. I gotta avoid constantly updating for stuff, lol.

Nah, but I’m all right with that. The point the line would highlight is already implied by the story as we have it, and somehow I feel more okay with use of AI for 9 than for 8. I’m gonna leave TLJ as final for me.

I doubt that it would fit in snuggly, and I don’t want to replace Luke’s line. I can give it a try though.

I don’t remember which clip, but one of those “he’s too dangerous” takes worked well!

I tried adding “you come from nothing” but it felt jammed in. I’ll play with it further.

And I inserted the saber breaking since it is a nice reminder to the audience about it given what we’ve done to it for Ascendant. Both the crackly effect and her expressing she doesn’t deserve the Skywalker family saber.

Here’s an updated vision sequence.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JYKveluSYkKQ--zSWQjxNZ-xgPyhI1pa/view?usp=share_link

The last one of those works really well, good improvement. Thank you!

Jar Jar Bricks said:

So I recommend either trying to use a different shot or just straight up using Starlight footage since it’s a vision anyway 😉

Of course, silly me. 😃

Here’s an attempt at extending the vision sequence, using material that was already part of the ‘Rey Nobody’ version. While I do still want to get a glimpse of Ochi’s ship, the changes we have been talking about with Rey feeling undeserving of Leia’s express sense of familial connection make it more important to establish this. So not only does she see herself on the Sith throne, she is haunted by past brushes with darkness. (The ambient audio for the added parts is a little janky, pulling from the TFA vision sequence and the TLJ scene where Luke looks into Kylo Ren’s mind in a flashback.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CiZMcU9NaKbyv2mMzegL1bgnkSqFlHRN/view?usp=share_link

EDIT: Also, so I don’t forget, I still need a replacement for “He’s too dangerous” but with a somewhat fast delivery.

This is all straying pretty far from the story as we have it, and I’d rather keep Ascendant pretty close to what we have and not introduce sweeping changes to Palpatine’s plan. I’m not convinced introducing the idea that he wanted to have them fight in order to claim the victor enhances anything here.

Hmm, I’m still leery of this, as what’s there makes sense the way it is. But I’m open to see what come. We’re introducing potential weak points here.

As it stands in V3, Palpatine seems to have wanted Rey dead from day one, and is working Kylo into killing her and then possessing him, up to the point where he is redeemed. Then since Rey showed up he’s gonna try for her. To me this is simple enough and I think that your idea wouldn’t really improve it and would introduce many potentially awkward audio edits.

Test clip for V8. AI voice by Jar Jar Bricks:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C18E_nRAif_ae-SjLhTOVxbrQLiWEMd7/view?usp=share_link

Yeah, but it shouldn’t be revelatory or shocking to her or to us that she would have struggled with her family heritage.

Also, here’s the ancient text line in context. Sounds pretty good! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1au_fzjCMYIkOholtONUhSEokGnu2hqJX/view?usp=share_link

If you pursued that idea, the natural place to inject it would be as Luke talks with Rey fireside. That said, I can’t say I love the idea or want to pursue it here. Too much crammed in, raises many questions.

Here’s the current lines in context, and it’s hard to imagine them being improved much! I EQ’d Luke’s line “she surrendered her saber to me…” to reduce the low frequencies just slightly, and had that effect gradually wear off as he progresses through the line.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cqFyhWmFxTtW8yd93V6kJt02CFMkbnp3/view?usp=share_link

Nah, it’s the perfect length as-is. Too long would feel conspicuous.

Awesome, RL! I still need to get the line to work after the sandworm to correspond. It’s good that Rey sounds almost Padme-level dry monotone at times because her AI voice is very flexible.

As stated, AI opens many doors but I do want to keep it to a minimum, or at least limited to things that… make sense and are good ideas? Lol

I feel you on that one, better to look at particular trees in the forest I feel like.

And oh jeez, sorry I skipped right by Nev’s awesome drawing.

Also, can the Poe line be shortened to just read “each ship [has been] modified with delreadnaught laser cannons”?

I wonder how they’d know it was a celebrity? “Oh this is my uncle.”

Also on my list is to try extending the vision Rey has while training to include the stuff in the ‘Rey Nobody’ version of signs of darkness from prior movies. And maybe toss in “You have no place in this story.”

Without having access to headphones at the moment, I agree that does sound pretty darn good. Thank you so much for taking the time to run that through so many permutations, man.

JJB, I will play with the ancient texts line when I have a little more time. The others were a simpler task to drop lines in without re-editing sequences. Only had about 30 minutes to work with, lol.

I know there are tutorials out there about how to make a voice recording, sound deeper, so I should play around with that next time I can.

Folder now contains more test clips: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LPAnhZcKFOIU7TZN4e1KoBKk0B78A35Q?usp=share_link

That’s all I could steal myself away for right now!