Burbin, I’ve noted those ideas and will play with them next time I manage to boot up into my old OS and do some work on this. Thank you.
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Maybe when he chokes on the word “escape,” add a sneeze a second later.
Sending a link!
In ROTJ, Vader no longer lifts Palpatine and throws him down the shaft. Instead, he raises a hand and redirects Palpatine’s lightning into his own face until he explodes. (With blood.)
Sounds good!
Also, workprint #2 is on its way up now, taking into account feedback so far. It doesn’t change the sequence of scenes surrounding the duel in Kylo’s quarters, but does change the order of the post-Acho-To scenes.
Use an AI voice clone to have Finn say to D-O, “What’s your story, roundy?” (Instead of, “So, where you from?”)
Might be the power of suggestion, but Hayden looks more like Sebastian Shaw nowadays.
It would have been nice to save the lightning for the end of ROTJ, in as much as it makes Palpatine’s attack on Luke all the more crazy and horrific if you’ve never seen it used before. It would have been far better, IMHO, if Palpatine had never been involved in any combat at all until ROTJ.
To be fair, you could say that about a lot of things.
I’d like to request a variant that doesn’t explicitly make it a “one-shot” because my project and perhaps others would need one in order to use this change.
You’re saying that you see Rey’s moment post-hangar as her realizing that when she completes the necessary, galaxy-saving mission they’re on she’ll be corrupted in the process and become evil? I guess that’s a fair read, but isn’t fed to the audience real clearly.
Sherlock, I’ll try the order of scenes on the destroyer you suggest and see how it plays. Same surrounding Ach-To.
I did not apply LUTs to this workprint, as I have to do that last. But don’t worry, it’ll look the same as the regular version. Also, I don’t actually have a fixed version of that one shot from poppa. If he does send me one I’ll use it but otherwise I’m not bothered by it.
And editing these subtitles is going to be glorious fun with how haphazard and jumping all around I’ve handled this…
It wouldn’t be the only unavoidable hiccup of the idea, and I did minimize the gap so it’s less like she’s mesmerized by the ship and more that she noticed it and then they’re all surprised by the remaining trooper. Also, I think it’d important to keep the whispers associated closely with the knife itself, in order to continue to get away with the compass removal while propping up the corpse of the legitimacy of the plot device.
And welcome!
Hey, I like that! Totally works for me. Almost want to replace the Rey Palpatine version, but it’s probably better to leave it about her parents.
I figured the Luke snippet would offer… something… to the “I will earn your brother’s saber one day” line.
This is a super simple alteration, just dropping two short snippets in place of what’s there in the main version of Ascendant. It does not reinvent the wheel.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AlSM2HL3qXIR-PUxnxHCdHlgVqwQQqd3/view?usp=sharing
All good ideas. For what might literally be three seconds of time to fill, I’m sure there’ll be something that’ll work well enough.
Wow, Nev, I’ve been a slacker on keeping up to date with this project lately but that Senate idea is compelling. Really hoping it turns out. It’s just what is missing from Restructured, as you highlight. The idea would be that they did “listen” to Leia’s emissary, but it was too late. We see their amassed ships be destroyed along with the Hosnian system overall, but a few could have launched to be there by the start of TLJ.
Would you mind sending me the most current version of that, Nev? I’ll play around with adding an extra like 5 seconds to that vision and see what I can come up with.
Ah, that’s important!
Thanks!
The blue lightning I would just chalk up to artistic choice and palantir-ish misdirection.
I could see about tightening Rey’s reaction shot as you describe and see how it plays.
And I’ll see about Rey’s lips during that moment. Could probably just use less of that shot and more of another, but hard to say until I can sit down to look.
Anyone who has the current link to my SW stuff now has access to the workprint. It’s at the root level of the Star Wars folder.
Looking to make sure it’s coherent and nothing was missed. Not really looking for big ideas, but the implementation and content of affected scenes. It’s not a V3, just an alternate version. Thanks in advance.
Nev, it’s great to see you keep improving this. That R2 clip was super good.
Rendering out a workprint for the Rey Nobody alternate version of Ascendant, thanks largely to Spence.
It’ll just be a low quality, non-color graded video to be able to see how the pieces fit together. Once it’s finalized, I’ll proceed to reapply the LUTs manually to the entire film and sort out the jigsaw puzzle of all the subtitle files that’ll need to be synced up again.
Here’s the change list:
The ending will not be altered from the regular version of Ascendant. It’s the same ol’ Ascendant, just that Rey is never established to be descended from Palpatine, and that her parents presumably are as TLJ describes them and don’t factor into this story.
Please don’t cut Rey’s ugh.
Okay.
I don’t think messing with that would make for a seamless result and it’s not a big deal.
And to clarify: this isn’t a V3, just the Rey Nobody alternate version.