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#1410431
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Brewzter said:

sherlockpotter said:

Okay, I took a stab at color correcting the insert shot of Leia holding the medal. It struck me that, given how bright the blueish backlight is in Leia’s Death Chamber™, the dim, golden tone of the medal clip kind of stood out. Bear in mind that I’ve never color-corrected anything before, and my entire experience consists of watching one YouTube video; so if anyone out there knows what they’re doing and wants to offer some feedback, I’d be grateful!

Original (for comparison): https://streamable.com/soz9a7
Color Correction: https://streamable.com/y53j10

I may actually want it to be an even brighter blue. Hmm…

This is definitely an improvement, I like the inclusion of the medal shot but the colors differing in the original definitely makes it stick out poorly. I’d be interested to see a more blue one like you said.

And regarding why Palpatine was confused by the dyad power if Snoke was on some level a meat puppet, I’ve always just assumed that Snoke was lying about “bridging their minds”. This instantly fixes that issue lol

Snoke wasn’t Palpatine’s VR headset.

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#1409815
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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sherlockpotter said:

Just had a thought - what if, in the Death Star fight, the clip of Leia dying is shuffled forward slightly, and spliced in as Rey is healing Kylo. Then the implication would be that Leia sacrifices herself, allowing Rey to channel her life force into her son? That also explains how Rey is able to heal a mortal wound without killing herself, like Ben did when he healed her.

Except Ben and Rey had most of their life force drained by Palpatine; Ben used the rest of his that Palpatine didn’t take to resurrect the deceased Rey.

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#1409640
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The Rise of Skywalker Expanded Edition by Rae Carson: The Faraday Edit (WIP)
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CaptainFaraday said:

TestingOutTheTest said:

I’m sorry, but some of your edits miss the point. The Skywalker lightsaber being split into two and being repaired with a band of metal is the equivalent of Luke’s robotic hand, it serves to remind us of Rey’s failure in TLJ.

Snoke being a creation from scratch explains why he never interfered during the events of the original and prequel trilogies, it turns out he never even existed at those points in time.

The whole point of Rey being Palpatine’s granddaughter is to reinforce her subconscious, irrational core belief that she is worthless, she becomes convinced that her lineage is the reason she is falling to the dark side and committing sins like unleashing Force lightning onto the transport and stabbing Kylo Ren in the chest with the very lightsaber he used to kill Han.

After she was abandoned by her parents, she subconsciously developed this irrational core belief that she is worthless, she subconsciously hates herself (she doesn’t actively hate herself, it’s a subconscious thing), she believes this lie that the only way to feel happy, to feel loved is if she gains love and worth from others as well as if she pleases others which would then result in said others giving her the love and worth she desires to make her feel happy; it is for this very reason she frees BB-8 from Teedo, why she bypasses the compressor on the Falcon, and why she tells Luke that she would not fail him in the way Kylo Ren did. She is essentially a parasite, leeching off of others to give her what she wants.

After Rey gives into the dark side and mortally wounds Kylo Ren, as I stated, she becomes convinced that her lineage is the reason she is falling to the dark side, so she exiles herself because if she falls to the dark side she’ll make things worse for others instead of pleasing them, she’ll never get the love and worth she wants. She thinks that being Palpatine’s granddaughter automatically makes her even more worthless… that is, until Luke shows up and gives her a pep talk that just because she is Palpatine’s granddaughter doesn’t mean she is worthless (for example, Leia knew of her lineage and yet still trained her, because she saw the spark or whatever in her).

She heads to the Sith Citadel on Exegol (the Citadel represents the subconscious and hidden part of her mind) to confront Palpatine and end the Sith for good, but he convinces her to kill him so she would become Empress and have control over his forces who are endangering her loved ones, her found family, if she refuses her loved ones, her found family, would be killed off; she accepts, knowing that if she becomes Empress and prevents the Final Order from killing her loved ones, her found family, she would obtain that worth for as long as she lives her life as Empress. Suddenly, Ben Solo, the one person she has had a close connection to through the Force for a long time, comes backs for her, showing her that he truly cared about her, that she is valuable, even if she never becomes Empress; this allows her to refuse the ritual and stand against Palpatine. However, he then drains most of her and Ben’s dyad life energy (symbolic of how low self-esteem drains one of life and happiness) and gets rid of the one person who has showed Rey that she is valuable, leaving her all alone once more in the darkness; that is… until she calls out to the Jedi of the past, then all of them respond and convince her that she isn’t alone, that she is capable of rising, etc. This convinces her to refuse the lie she believed her entire life, that she is worthless, that she can only feel worth something if others give her their love, so she finally faces against Palpatine. He spits at her about how she is nothing and how she is unable to stand against him; she ignores his remarks and responds back with her own, self-made sense of self-worth and self-esteem… that “she… is all the Jedi.” She permanently destroys Palpatine, the personification of this irrational core belief, once and for all.

These concepts aren’t really described in the text anywhere

If you’re referring to the actual film, do you even know what inference is?

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#1409435
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker Expanded Edition by Rae Carson: The Faraday Edit (WIP)
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I’m sorry, but some of your edits miss the point. The Skywalker lightsaber being split into two and being repaired with a band of metal is the equivalent of Luke’s robotic hand, it serves to remind us of Rey’s failure in TLJ.

Snoke being a creation from scratch explains why he never interfered during the events of the original and prequel trilogies, it turns out he never even existed at those points in time.

The whole point of Rey being Palpatine’s granddaughter is to reinforce her subconscious, irrational core belief that she is worthless, she becomes convinced that her lineage is the reason she is falling to the dark side and committing sins like unleashing Force lightning onto the transport and stabbing Kylo Ren in the chest with the very lightsaber he used to kill Han.

After she was abandoned by her parents, she subconsciously developed this irrational core belief that she is worthless, she subconsciously hates herself (she doesn’t actively hate herself, it’s a subconscious thing), she believes this lie that the only way to feel happy, to feel loved is if she gains love and worth from others as well as if she pleases others which would then result in said others giving her the love and worth she desires to make her feel happy; it is for this very reason she frees BB-8 from Teedo, why she bypasses the compressor on the Falcon, and why she tells Luke that she would not fail him in the way Kylo Ren did. She is essentially a parasite, leeching off of others to give her what she wants.

After Rey gives into the dark side and mortally wounds Kylo Ren, as I stated, she becomes convinced that her lineage is the reason she is falling to the dark side, so she exiles herself because if she falls to the dark side she’ll make things worse for others instead of pleasing them, she’ll never get the love and worth she wants. She thinks that being Palpatine’s granddaughter automatically makes her even more worthless… that is, until Luke shows up and gives her a pep talk that just because she is Palpatine’s granddaughter doesn’t mean she is worthless (for example, Leia knew of her lineage and yet still trained her, because she saw the spark or whatever in her).

She heads to the Sith Citadel on Exegol (the Citadel represents the subconscious and hidden part of her mind) to confront Palpatine and end the Sith for good, but he convinces her to kill him so she would become Empress and have control over his forces who are endangering her loved ones, her found family, if she refuses her loved ones, her found family, would be killed off; she accepts, knowing that if she becomes Empress and prevents the Final Order from killing her loved ones, her found family, she would obtain that worth for as long as she lives her life as Empress. Suddenly, Ben Solo, the one person she has had a close connection to through the Force for a long time, comes backs for her, showing her that he truly cared about her, that she is valuable, even if she never becomes Empress; this allows her to refuse the ritual and stand against Palpatine. However, he then drains most of her and Ben’s dyad life energy (symbolic of how low self-esteem drains one of life and happiness) and gets rid of the one person who has showed Rey that she is valuable, leaving her all alone once more in the darkness; that is… until she calls out to the Jedi of the past, then all of them respond and convince her that she isn’t alone, that she is capable of rising, etc. This convinces her to refuse the lie she believed her entire life, that she is worthless, that she can only feel worth something if others give her their love, so she finally faces against Palpatine. He spits at her about how she is nothing and how she is unable to stand against him; she ignores his remarks and responds back with her own, self-made sense of self-worth and self-esteem… that “she… is all the Jedi.” She permanently destroys Palpatine, the personification of this irrational core belief, once and for all.

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#1407363
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
Time

CaptainFaraday said:

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot which I haven’t seen anyone else discussing: would it be in any way possible to replace Leia’s lightsaber with Luke’s green one?

The whole thing about Leia training to be a Jedi (and the floating CGI head Billie-Lourd-Leia flashback) feels so out of character and wrong to me. Plus, the green would cause a change in overall lighting colour during the final confrontation with Palpatine, just as the balance of power changes, which appeals to me thematically as Rey representing all the different Jedi.

Part of me feels that Rey holding the lightsabers of the two Skywalkers who helped shaped her to be the Jedi she now is -
holding their legacy against the man who ruined their lives - is more symbolic and meaningful.

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#1406323
Topic
Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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snooker said:

The First Order havent fully revealed themselves to the galaxy, and its in the Resistance’s best interest to destroy them before they deploy. The oscillator is the power system for the base and destroying it would blow up the base, which would cripple the First Order. Maybe the mining of the planet could be used to imply that the planet’s the source of all the Star Destroyers also.

Perhaps the scene where the Hosnian system is destroyed could be recontectualized to be an attack from a First Order Dreadnaught.

How about have the Dreadnought be the Supremacy instead?

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#1405355
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Replaced Kylo Ren’s line “I never lied to you” with “You were right” for more intuitive and precise continuity with TLJ even as the scene retcons it. In that film, it is Rey herself who supplies the information that her parents “were nobody.”

Kylo Ren clearly wanted to take credit for what Rey said.

(…though, I would suggest the line can be changed from "I never lied to you. Your parents were no one. They chose to be, to keep you safe, to “We were wrong.* Your parents did love you. They chose to keep you safe,” as well as changing the “sold” in “They sold you… to protect you,” to “left,” since I never saw Rey’s TLJ arc as about “being insignificant in general,” but more that she needed to come to terms with her parents being bad people and stop caring about them, the “nobody” part is there not to say that Rey is insignificant, but only there so she would no longer use any destiny or purpose to feed her internal lie that her parents loved her and thought she was valuable so she’d feel loved, happy.)

Removed talk about Leia (and possibly Luke, depending on one’s interpretation of the scene) having known about Rey being a Palpatine.

The Leia thing is there to show to Rey that being related to Palpatine doesn’t inherently make her worthless.

*Both Kylo Ren and Rey believed at first that her parents did not care for her and thought she was worthless, until he learned the truth from Palpatine.

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#1404671
Topic
Star Wars: <strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> Redux Ideas thread
Time

JakeRyan17 said:

Oh, I know. This started as posting a silly TikTok.

To honestly fix it, I imagine you’d need to define why Luke gave up the search. I’d love for it to be he sensed Grogu and left to go be in The Mandalorian and was simply to preoccupied with training Jedi after that to bother with finding ancient Sith and Jedi attifants… but that’s really the only thing I could see doing it.

Also, not a plot hole, but why did Lando stay on Pasaana for 30 years? Like, Luke bails on the search, and Lando just… vibes in the desert for 30 years? Gave up searching for (presumably) Jannah?

It’s already explained in the film.

LANDO: Luke and I were tailing an old Jedi hunting. Ochi of Bestoon. He was carrying a clue that could lead to a wayfinder. We followed his ship halfway across the galaxy here. When we got to his ship, it was abandoned… No clue. No wayfinder.

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#1404660
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
Time

ThisIsCreation said:

Luka Frik said:

Hey everyone ! I’m done with working on the DS fight for the crackling saber and I don’t intend to modify the shots from now (but I can always share the AE files so that one can make the modifications wanted). All the shots are available here, now the only thing needed is to reunite them !

https://mega.nz/folder/m5oD3IqA#5znVQQ_9m8AQSDGGFTw6RA

I’ll try to share the Exegol sequence next week.

This is absolutely insane. It’s incredible.


Not sure if this is something you would want implemented but watching your work on the crackling saber inspired me to make a few sounds to match it.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kO74VSZ_67MyuOdjI8Hpa3BJeSTawSpz?usp=sharing

There is about 7 different sounds.

Password?

EDIT: Nevermind.

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#1404477
Topic
The <strong>Original Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Anakin Starkiller said:

Besides that’s cool. By showing Vader literally physically lift up a whole person it shows his strength. He’s not just strong with the Force.

I was actually just watching a video explaining how no human could do that, so it’s either the Force, his cybernetics, or both.

Okay, but Vader is physically ‘‘that’’ strong.

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#1404217
Topic
<s>Why I Love Prequel Yoda</s> (<em>Outdated</em>)
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G&G-Fan said:

The force in the prequels is the same as in the original movies. They didn’t introduce anything new. Force lightning, telekinesis (Vader throws objects at Luke in ESB, force choking is technically telekinesis, Yoda lifting up an entire X-Wing), force speed and super high jumping (Luke did it in ESB AND ROTJ when he jumped up to avoid Vader, and Vader also did a big jump in ESB), seeing into the future, fast lightsaber dueling (sometimes Vader and Luke’s duels can actually be pretty fast in their most intense parts; the only reason they weren’t faster is because Luke is a novice force user and Vader isn’t trying to kill him, it makes a ton of sense that Jedi masters that trained for decades would be incredibly fast and powerful), it’s all there.

Just a point, but Yoda blocks Dooku’s and Palpatine’s Force lightning.

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#1404095
Topic
Star Wars: <strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> Redux Ideas thread
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JakeRyan17 said:

TestingOutTheTest said:

It is never mentioned or implied in the film that the Wayfinder belonged to Anakin specifically.

It was on Mustafar, stated in the novelisation, stated in the deleted scenes, and the current Darth Vader comic has him acquiring it directly.

The Alazmec of Winsit, whom Kylo Ren fights to obtain the Wayfinder, are a cult following Vader.

I said it wasn’t stated in the film; one shouldn’t have to go outside of a work and rely on ancillary material in order for it to make sense.

ThisIsCreation said:

JakeRyan17 said:

It’s pointing out that Anakin’s Force Ghost could’ve told Luke where his Wayfinder was, basically pointing out the massive plot hole in The Rise of Skywalker.

My gripe with this is,a character not telling another character something isn’t a plothole. By this same logic it is a plothole in A New Hope that Obi wan didnt tell Luke that Vader was his father and that he had a sister.

I wouldn’t frame it as a plot hole, but more of an Idiot Plot. On the topic of Obi-Wan, the reason he didn’t tell Luke that Vader was his father is so he wouldn’t be traumatized.