The difference is that Hux sticks around. If an officer screwed up badly enough to warrant Vader’s wrath in ESB, their movement within the organization was usually limited to six feet in one direction.
That’s surprisingly coherent.
I’ll say it again, I would’ve liked a reflection and meditation on how to rebuild Germany and reconcile the population while purging the bad after WWII and dealing with the shadow Hitler left. What I got was the return of mecha-zombie-Hitler decades later to destroy the world as revenge.
It’s so clear as a through-line to the saga as well.
Prequels: The dysfunction which leads to tragedy.
Originals: The horror which leads to Rebellion.
Sequels: The wisdom which leads to peace.
Except that the sequels chose to retrench instead of move forward.
Phantom Menace
Clones
Sith
Star Wars
Empire
Jedi
The Force Awakens
Last Jedi
Rise of Skywalker
Yoda’s lesson in Empire. The way the music swells when he says “You must feel the Force around you” is peak Star Wars for me. A close second is Han and Leia’s “scoundrel” kiss. More romance in 3 seconds than in the entirety of Attack of the Clones.
I firmly believe that this scene is the soul of Star Wars. Fitting that it sits now directly in the middle of the middle film of the middle trilogy.
Nobody to Palpatine is already a problem though, and at least the reversion back to Nobody solves it. Kylo would be going off of Palpatine’s information above his own intuition from TLJ, so he would be duped as well, or in on it. Some tweaking of his dialogue here would probably be needed.
In an edit which removes Rey Palpatine, I agree that her story would feel even weaker than before. However, you could keep Rey Palpatine as a misdirection to get her to go to Exogol. Take out the flashback to her parents getting killed and Luke’s insistence that Leia knew all about this, and add some Emperor dialogue revealing the deception. His statements later actually support that conclusion anyway, where he refers to her as merely a scavenger girl.
Now Rey has to come to terms with a possible unavoidable darkness and it doesn’t trash the rest of the ST in the process.
It’s clear that the crawls for the 1-6 films only emphasized the single most important aspect of that film. TFA should only have highlighted FIRST ORDER, TLJ should have had no highlighted terms, and TROS should have highlighted everything in the script and pressed delete.
Oh really? I must have forgotten or totally missed that you did that.
It was after Rey returns from Starkiller and is looking at R2, there’s an off-screen conversation between Poe and Leia where he mentions the Hosnian System. It was my attempt at naming the system somewhere, but it’s super subtle.
I wasn’t able to find any Leia lines that were practical, except for a few brief phrases like ‘they caused so much damage’ and ‘we need help’ which I put into my TFA edit in the background of one scene.
It’s funny, the more you think about it. The First Order General was offed as a joke and their Supreme Leader hallucinated himself into switching sides, then the rest of the organization died off screen.
A story for the ages.
Lando blasts Don’t Stop Me Now while doing the Death Star run.
Take it to the Best Edit Ideas thread.
Oh, I must have forgotten:
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And yes Dek, that’s how I view them as well.
Make the TROS novelization into a two and a half hour crawl which replaces the film.
The perfect compositional balance achieved by mirroring an image imbues a work with religious and spiritual implications, as well as conferring a sense of surreality. Thus, the OTTO Movement seeks to combine aspects of the Surreal and the Religious by channeling them through subjects of the popular zeitgeist, i.e., actors. Appeal is not the point, for they are no less than an attempt to connect the spirit of man to that of the divine.
So we’re just supposed to accept that he’s the son of Han and Leia and just so happens to be one of the strongest Force users in the galaxy?
Yes, because he trained with their friend who’s one of the strongest Force users in the Galaxy? I don’t see how that’s an issue.
Besides, you talk of jumping sharks with everything happening conveniently nearby, but that’s exactly the problem that Leia Skywalker is the epitome of, which is why I hate it. Can we go back a ANH without every other person being a Skywalker? Now it’s just the story of a robot telling his step-brother to save his twin sister from their father. In the context of the film, that has to be the biggest coincidence in the history of coincidences.
As much as I agree with you that Leia shouldn’t have been a Skywalker, it actually isn’t totally coincidental like the Jakku convergence. It makes sense for Obi-wan to have left Luke’s sister with people who had no love for the Empire who would be involved with the Rebellion. Since the Rebellion would have needed to call on Obi-wan at some point, it was only a matter of time before the siblings met.
Happens to the best of us 😃
In fact, the comprehensibility of the entire ST rests on Leia being a Skywalker.
How so? Kylo doesn’t need to be a Skywalker to be a Vader fanboy, and he still comes from two important lineages, if you’re worried about it stealing from Rey Nobody.
So we’re just supposed to accept that he’s the son of Han and Leia and just so happens to be one of the strongest Force users in the galaxy?
I mean, the ST posits three massively important pieces of the plot all happening to land within a couple miles of each other on one planet in the galaxy, so I get that this shark is already well and truly jumped, but why add another coincidence to the pile?
Wait, do you think he’d only inherit strength in the force if Leia was a Jedi? What?
If she was a Skywalker, not a Jedi. Obviously he could be randomly strong in the Force anyway, but it would be quite the coincidence.
In fact, the comprehensibility of the entire ST rests on Leia being a Skywalker.
How so? Kylo doesn’t need to be a Skywalker to be a Vader fanboy, and he still comes from two important lineages, if you’re worried about it stealing from Rey Nobody.
So we’re just supposed to accept that he’s the son of Han and Leia and just so happens to be one of the strongest Force users in the galaxy?
I mean, the ST posits three massively important pieces of the plot all happening to land within a couple miles of each other on one planet in the galaxy, so I get that this shark is already well and truly jumped, but why add another coincidence to the pile?
In fact, the comprehensibility of the entire ST rests on Leia being a Skywalker.
JEDIT: Though I agree that Leia’s Jedi training was a pretty pointless eleventh-hour addition.
Hey, you know that one scene in Return of the Jedi Where Darth brings Luke to The Emperor and he says “Ah, yes. A Jedi’s weapon, much like your father’s” Would that mean only the Jedi (Pre Prequels/EU) used them officially labeled as their own weapon?
Meaning that Vader would be the only Sith in out of all to use one as his own.
Note: The term Sith was used in one of the original scripts for SW77
JEDIT:
That makes me theorize that the previous Sith before Vader only used their force abilities/powers and other.
This was many people’s assumption until the prequels, that only Jedi or fallen Jedi would use sabers. It’s a shame George felt the need to give everyone and their Sith brother a red lightsaber.
Starting in around January I decided to do some daily wrist exercises for my Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and while I was at it I decided to start doing pushups. For context I couldn’t do a single pushup when I started, just half-pushups with my upper body. But by the end of April I could do over 40 full pushups in a row, as well as some simple weightlifting and wrist exercises. Carpal Tunnel is much improved and I feel better. Last month I was dealing with some stomach mess, probably IBS, which knocked out my desire to exercise, but that cleared up by the end of the month and I started the pushups again. Now I’m back up to 22 at once in just a week or so.
My tip is to find a place where you won’t be bothered and make the time every day to do the exercises, even if it’s at 3:00 in the morning and you really just want to go to bed. It only takes me 15 minutes to do a full range of exercises and even if you don’t feel like it you can almost certainly do a little bit. At least that’s what I have been telling myself and it’s mostly been working so far, IBS hiatus notwithstanding.
Well okay then.
