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Watched V3 last night. Outstanding work overall. For the most part the scenes cut do not feel missed and cutting them improves the narrative overall, so great choices there. One I’m not sure of is the ‘answering the call’ choice. I feel like ‘digging up the sabers’ doesn’t quiet work as well as the ‘getting on the ship’ scene. I think its mostly due to a combination of the music and the look on Kenobi’s face as the ‘sabers’ scene ends feeling doubtful, vs. the music and his look in the scene with the ship feeling more resolute/determined. But it still totally works how you have it now.

Also, I think the music right at the end of the Leah kidnapping scene in the woods might work better if it was more subtle and sinister rather than sudden and abrupt.

The first Kenobi vs. Vader showdown still bothers me but this is a problem inherent in the material and probably beyond the abilities of an edit to correct. Why doesn’t Vader use the force to pull Kenobi back through the flames or levitate him up and over the flames? Or the stormtroopers could just charge up the sides of the gravel hill and get to the droid (who wasn’t exactly moving fast), take it out, and recover Kenobi. I get that the intent is supposed to be that Vader is in some kind of PTSD moment with the wall of flames (at least I think that is supposed to be the intent–I’m not sure what else would make sense), but this is a digression that relates to the source material.

This really did feel like it could fit into a midquel watch between Solo and Rogue One as a stand-alone movie and hold its own. This will be how I watch it going forward, and I thank you for it!

I’m just assuming the tides aren’t significant enough to submerge the necessary landmarks on the DSII wreckage to make the dagger useless, and the dagger was made recently enough to make erosion not an issue at the time of the movie, but you could consider erosion a built in failsafe or timer on the dagger’s utility

Cthulhunicron said:

Hal 9000 said:

It just doesn’t make any sense.

Nope. Neither does the dagger.

I kind of sort of like this explanation of the dagger found here:(https://www.reddit.com/r/starwarsspeculation/comments/efnzvh/why_would_the_sith_make_a_knife_that_does_what_it/)

"The only explanation that makes sense to me is that the dagger was given to Ochi by a member of the Eternal Sith Cult. His orders were to kill Rey’s parents, retrieve Rey, then use the dagger to find the wayfinder for himself to bring Rey to Exogol. I guess having the coordinates eched into the dagger was a dramatic way for the overly ritualistic cultists to get their message across? “Here’s a mysterious dagger delivered to a Sith assassin by Sithy persons unknown; you know what to do, bro.” Maybe this is standard operating procedure for these evil weirdos.

After initially failing in his mission, Ochi kept the dagger with the intention of finding Rey through other means. He had the dagger on his person when he unexpectedly died."

I also like the idea (which I read somewhere else but now can’t remember where) that the wayfinders were keyed to Vader and Palpatine bloodlines in some way and that is why Kylo was able to retrieve his as it was stashed by Vader and that was also why Rey was needed to find the one Palpatine stashed as his was ‘keyed’ to his DNA, so Ochi had to have both Rey and the Dagger before he could retrieve the Wayfinder and find his way back to Exogol (if I remember correctly the room Rey finds the Wayfinder in just kind of opened as she approached it so this would make sense, i guess…).

So Palpatine returns, knows he’s got an heir out there that he wants to turn so he has Sith cultists recruit someone and give him a means to return to him on Exogol but only if he completes his mission, but safeguards it so that if someone else finds the map they wont know what it is out of context. The fact that it matches up with the Death Star II remnants just means that the Sith Cultists/Palpatine didn’t make the dagger until they knew they were going to recruit someone to abduct Rey and bring her to Palpatine on Exogol.

–It works for my own head cannon, i’m sure it will be shot full of holes soon enough though. And it doesn’t really do much for all the other issues in the movie.

Ah man, just read through this thread with excitement mounting exponentially only to get near the and and see that sheepish has gone silent for over half a year. 😦

This project sounds awesome and the clips you’ve posted look great, I can’t wait to see the finished project! In the meantime I need to trackdown L8wrtr’s Shadow of the Sith and the latest version of Hal9000’s The Approaching Storm in BD formats so I have some solidly edited versions of eps 1 and 2 to lead into your version of ep 3.