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It would be cool to see as an alternate version, I guess why not

Palpatine did not create Anakin, the force did in response to Darth Plagieus’s attempt to manipulate the midichlorians

I really enjoyed this!

3 things I would take to the bank and would love to see incorperated into other edits:

. Setting up the Sith eternal at the start and slowly building up to revealing Palpatine’s return midmovie felt like an actual reveal rather than the silly opening revelation we got in the original. For me in has the same impact as the Hal’s switch of the hosnian prime destruction in TFA. I can imagine in a rey palpatine version Kylo revealing Rey’s heritage in the hanger would be a lot more impactfull than in the og, like a one two gut punch reveal, first that Palpatine has retuned and then that Rey is his grand-daughter (set up earlier with the lightning powers and dark visions)

. Kylo Ren’s visit to the falcon and force semi-omniscience are a great addition to his character work and power development.

. Leia actually being involved in force healing Ben and that being the cause of her death makes a lot more sense than in the original.

I think it shows

Star Wars: Duel of the Fates AI Recreation by SkywalkerStories
https://youtu.be/x-OiA2TsDuo

Those are fair points, honestly I think what you got is already great as is

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Idir, I like how that does theoretically solve the issue of Luke telling the audience what’s guaranteed to happen next. The only problem is that uncertainty you’ve added in also extends to Luke himself, making him seem less sure of what he’s learned since TLJ. His return there was pretty definitive, so I’d like to imagine his conclusion on the purpose of legends was also definitive.

EDIT: What about - “Legends inspire hope in the face of fear.” ?

I think it might come down to the delivery, I think it could sound retrospective rather than uncertain, but then again he’s a ghost so maybe he can get away with a little abiguity.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Here’s the line generation I’m leaning toward on Ahch-To. Does this sound natural to everyone?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tfa31hHzUwS6iMTOHTm1DbD3w458jXNr/view?usp=sharing

Sounds great to me, maybe he can echoe verbatim what Rey said in TLJ? “The galaxy may need a legend, to rise up against its fear”

I don’t know if its just me, but non of your streamable links seem to be working

Looks great !

On paper this works really well, I say go for it 👌

Jar Jar Bricks said:

I could technically work this concept in with what I’ve currently got. But maybe it would require a longer shot of the hand earlier in the movie to land correctly. After all, this is the only unanswered question in the entire trilogy and has a horrible line that goes along with it: “A good question, for another time”.

Old:

Kylo: “Tell me where you are. You don’t know the whole story… It was Palpatine who had your parents taken. He was looking for your father. But your father was a powerless failure. So he gave the order…”
Rey: “No!”
Kylo: “So that’s where you are… the Emperor wants one of us to take the throne.”

New:

Kylo: “Tell me where you are. You don’t know the whole story… Your father had escaped Exegol with your lightsaber. He sold it, because he couldn’t touch the Force. So Palpatine sent an assassin…”
Rey: “No!”
Kylo: “So that’s where you are… The Emperor wants one of us to take the throne.”

This creates the impression that perhaps her parents were merely Sith cultists that wanted out. The reveal later in the hangar that her father is Palpatine’s son makes this previous reveal even more distressing to Rey. So a reveal on top of a reveal. I deliberately made Kylo’s dialogue vague enough to suggest that Palpatine could have sent an assassin because her father couldn’t use the Force, which is of course the real reason, and not merely for taking the Skywalker blade.

That could definitely work.
What do you think of making the tank that contains Luke’s hand red like the others, I think it would look less out of place that way

My go to ST edit!

At 2 hours 40 mins, Part I of this Duology is as close as I’ve seen to the original Michael Arnt script for episode 7, with the best of TFA and TLJ fanedits tightly focused on Rey/Kylo Ren & Luke Skywalker, capping it off with Yoda’s final lesson at the Jedi tree from TLJ.
The removal of the superweapon from Starkiller Base was seamless as well as the foreshadowing of Palpatine looming presence.

Part II in my opinion is the best at building towards episode 9’s ending as it emphasises Rey’s emotional connection to Luke and Leia throughout, making the Skywalker line more believable (the “be with me” montage is a great example).

Transition between Crait and Mustafar was expertly done using Vader’s helmet.
The only minor inconsistency I see is Rey trying to reach the Jedi of old at the training scene, since the “be with me” thread is more about connecting with Luke and Leia’s energy at the end.

One small addition I would add is this idea from Hals thread as it gives a payoff at least to Finn’s arch in the film, but that is a totally selfish wish on my part.

krlozdac said:

I’ve been doing a personal edit of TROS that includes a lot of elements of Ascendant but sticking closer to the theatrical version. One of the things I’ve restored is the running gag of Finn wanting to tell Rey something. I think I’ve found a somewhat useful resolution so that plotline can have a proper pay off. I leave it here in case it’s appealing for a future version:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuXxk0NHFzkHJBne8dxIYrDRtK0k3yzM/view?usp=sharing

NeverarGreat said:

It’s a nice conclusion to that arc.

If you wanted to simplify it, you could have Finn say “Rey…” through the Force, and Rey responds with “I know.”

Essentially, he’s been trying all this time to tell her how he feels, but in the end, through the Force, he doesn’t need to tell her, because their relationship is empathic and beyond words.

There’s also the callback to Han in ESB, which gives it that hint of romance if viewers want to interpret it that way.

Love this

Does the page 1 change-list still stand? Looking forward to watch this.

Imagine if they could still force Skype, maybe a certain vergence and voila, little reylo babies…

https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/s/DVFpHtWUQo

Found an awesome 2.3 h movie edit of the series on Reddit, highly recommended everyone give it a watch.

Honestly don’t think there’s enough story there to warrant 2 movies.

I wonder if it would be possible to change the main focus from the twins to Sol. Start the film with Sols perspective of the events on Brendock and have the twins mainly as the secondary plot…

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Very bizarre that they reveal Osha and Mae are the same person, and yet they chose two very distinctly different child actors for the flashbacks.

I think I’d be most interested in an edit of this show which completely removes both flashback episodes, but still includes episode 8 - which it doesn’t look like you’re doing here. I think letting the audience decide what happened that night completely on their own is much more satisfying than whatever the hell all that was. As it stands, Torbin doesn’t have sufficient motivations to end himself, the leader of the coven is to blame for her own death by not explaining her decision upfront, and Sol doesn’t explain himself to Osha for some reason. It’s just so much easier to remove all of this problematic writing and let the audience come up with their own explanations.

One other cool change I’d like to see someone make is shifting the Plagueis cameo to the very end of the edit, so that he is watching Osha and his apprentice instead of just watching their ship take off earlier. I think it would be pretty easy to digitally paint out the ship leaving in that shot. And then completely remove the Yoda cameo, since no matter what she says to him, Yoda either becomes an idiot or complicit in all this.

EDIT: The guy above me beat me to it, lol.

I agree. Either remove the flash back episodes completely or sprinkle in relevant parts of the flashbacks from the prospectives of Mae and OSHA respectively. At least you could put the excessive wake up shots to use !

If the Acolyte gets a season 2 (big If) I hope they at least change the writers if not the show runner. The story of Darth Plagueis the wise deserves Andor/HBO style drama writing, nothing less.

It’s starting to feel like this show endured heavy reshoots or at the very least was entirely reworked in post. I’m willing to bet episode 7 originally acted as the opening episode. Also would explain the massively inflated budget.

I feel like we’re in for a roshoman scenario that will give us a new perspective on this episode hence why I’m still going to hold back judgement until the end of the season

At first I scoffed at the immense ambition of this edit but after checking it out on recommendation, I have to say, this is as close to Lucas’ sequel trilogy we’re gonna get! Fellas, don’t sleep on this one.

I hope we can get new and improved versions of this edit as time goes by because even as proof of concept it truly touches the essence of the classic EU and George’s mythos.

Alleged leak of an early draft of JJ Abrams’ Rise of Skywalker featuring Coruscant and Jedi Finn
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