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#1204969
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The Force Awakens: Starlight (V1.1 Released!)
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Just going by the film (and deleted scenes), I see Leia’s role as someone who has significant (but not majority) support in the Senate, but who had to create the Resistance practically by herself.

The idea I’m going for here is that Leia and the Senate have worked together on the Resistance, but her demanding the Republic take action against the First Order would be the one thing that the Republic has gone to great lengths to avoid. I agree though that the wording could still be better, to make it so that Leia has more agency.

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#1204960
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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Yeah, the rule that such Force projection would kill a person doesn’t make sense, since Snoke was able to do some version of that with Rey and Kylo without dying. Under Rian’s logic, since Rey and Kylo are equal in opposing sides of the Force, it makes sense that Snoke and Luke would have about equal power as well.

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#1204770
Topic
The Force Awakens: Starlight (V1.1 Released!)
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My last attempt at a crawl failed to mention the Starkiller Base. Hopefully this solves the problem:

The galaxy is in crisis.
Luke Skywalker, last
of the Jedi Knights,
has vanished.

In his absence, an evil
FIRST ORDER has
emerged from a hidden
Imperial stronghold.
Armed with a weapon
of unspeakable power,
it moves to destroy the
allies of the Jedi once
and for all.

Desperate to prevent
another galactic war,
the New Republic funds
a covert RESISTANCE,
and tasks its leader with
finding their long-lost
defender among the
countless stars…

I’ve tried to cast the New Republic in a favorable light. Now it sounds like they’re the body pushing for this Resistance while still keeping the plausible deniability implied in the movie. Also, referring to the ‘allies of the Jedi’ as the First Order’s enemy explains both why the First Order is so antagonistic to the villagers and Maz’s establishment, and also why the Republic would want to keep the problem at arm’s length.

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#1204665
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Does anyone else get the feeling that America is in the midst of a political party realignment?

Now that everything that the (largely Republican) FBI does is labeled by the right as the ‘Deep State’, and the Republican congress and Executive branch has largely abandoned the traditions of those offices, it feels like Republicans have become deeply anti-traditional governance. Now Democrats are rushing to its defense, invoking the Constitution, giving governmental institutions the benefit of the doubt.

Similarly, the Democratic party is now more firmly the party of the educated elites, whereas the Republican party is courting more people who would otherwise be politically uninvolved.

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#1204494
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
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fmalover said:

The reason TPM looks a lot more like a SW movie is because it was shot on film + they used real sets and locations which is its saving grace unlike the latter two prequels where Lucas went overboard with 99% CGI alien characters as opposed to the OT where non-human characters were either people in costumes or puppets and of course the obvious nauseating blue/green screen backgrounds, speaking of which, I once read that when Ewan McGregor was approached by Michael Bay for the movie The Island when he wrapped up ROTS he was reluctant at first because he was tired of shooting in front of blue screens and green screens but Bay told him not to worry because he prefers practical effects.

Breathe. Just…breathe.

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#1204491
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Feedback Wanted: Alternate Mustafar climax for ROTS
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What if they switched lightsabers at some point? There’s actually a few shots during the table fight where Obi-wan is holding Anakin’s lightsaber, but then there’s a shot in between where he’s holding his own so right now it’s a continuity goof. You could re-edit that section of the fight so that they lose their lightsabers, and show Obi-wan Force-calling Anakin’s saber to him. The next you see of them they’re fighting on the bridge where it’s too hard to see which lightsaber each one has. Then it’s just a matter of cropping a few shots or re-editing.

Sure, it still ends with Obi-wan’s lightsaber going over the edge with Anakin, but there’s enough of a difference in sabers between ROTS and ANH that you could chalk it up to Obi-wan making a new one.

Finally, you could include part of the shot right after Obi-wan picks up Anakin’s lightsaber, as he’s walking up the hill and starts to turn around. Then cut to a reaction of the lava streaming by, perhaps part of the shot before he says ‘you were my brother’, then the final shot of him walking away, though you’d have to crop it or paint out Anakin’s flaming body.