MAC45

Fair enough! And credit to you that excising the scene doesn’t hurt the pacing of your edit at all. you could always hand waive it away in later material that its tech the only FO ships had if that were ever to come up in a post TROS story. Kinda losing hope that disney has interest in telling stories in that era though. Still hoping the Rey movie gets made. or maybe a show set during the sequel era.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Where to even begin with lightspeed skipping? Lol.

Well, the reason why it was removed from this edit - Han’s line from ANH about imprecise calculations - isn’t even really the strongest argument for it’s removal. Rather there are several other critical issues:

1. It’s made clear that Poe knows how to do this from his days of running spice. But why would he ever need to do this when lightspeed tracking was only invented a year before this? The only reason would be if you had a physical tracker on your ship that you were trying to remove while skipping around, but that’s such a niche scenario.
2. Lightspeed tracking required the largest ship the galaxy has ever known in order to work. You’re telling me that the tech has been miniaturized to fit on a single TIE fighter in less than a year’s time? Nah fam.
3. Okay, let’s say that the TIEs are broadcasting their feed live back to a larger Star Destroyer with a tracker in it. I think this is the canon explanation. Even then, that information would have to be transmitted in real time from (quite possibly) across the galaxy in order to be useful. I just don’t buy that this is possible.

If it doesn’t work for you that’s fine. Just personally I really enjoy the sequence and its the only thing that keeps this edit from being pretty much perfect for me. I know for some people its too much of a break in lore/logic. For me it isn’t. Overall this edit is amazing and has only gotten better with each new version.

I have to say as someone who actually quite liked the sequel trilogy I think this edit (especially the Rey Nobody version) is really great and I cannot wait for the newest version. TROS very much feels like the weakest in the trilogy and while I still enjoyed it there are things in it that I’m not fond of and this edit addresses a lot of them. I do have to say though that I really wish that there was an alternate version that included the lightspeed skipping sequence. As much as I’m sure that angers a lot of people, I find that scene to be pretty entertaining.

Are the links still available? I would very muck like them