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Rise of Skywalker Resurgence by krausfadr

Overall, this was a huge improvement on the theatrical release. While I’d personally take more of a hacksaw to this film, krausfadr did a fantastic job of improving Rise of Skywalker while keeping the body in tact. If you’re just looking for a better version of the film we got to close out your sequel collection, this is probably the one for you.

The beginning of the movie is, in my opinion, the most impressively redone. The buildup to clone Palpatine being sort of a mysterious benefactor for the First Order instead of being revealed at the start improves the pacing tremendously. Thankfully, it also means the excision of Palpatine announcing his return to the galaxy off-screen (in Fortnite) for reasons unknown.

The change regarding Rey’s parentage were less smoothly done, having some choppy dialogue editing in the retrofitted scenes. However, it gets the point across clear enough and does the film a great service by having it take less of a massive shit on Last Jedi, a movie I personally adore.

And, of course, it comes with the improved “all the Jedi” ending. While I never personally needed the fanservice present, it does help improve an incredibly flaccid climax. That it looks fantastic for a fan work only helps matters.

While the movie’s a bit intrinsically broken, this is an amazing effort that makes it much less of a let down. Excellent work to krausfadr and their collaborators.

A few specific things I personally would like to see changed (may edit these into my own copy):

-While I really like Kylo Ren’s Mustafar rampage, it’s not necessary here, his acquisition of the holocron could be explained in the opening crawl, maybe with some footage spliced into Rey’s forest vision. The pacing of this film is psychotic and it doesn’t really need another action scene.

-I’d remove the shots of the Sith fleet coming out of the ground, it only heightens the handwavy nature of its existence. The meeting scene earlier establishes they have some of the fleet ships already, shots of them in the sky would suffice.

-I’d have the party split up off screen on the mission to rescue Chewy, and excise all mention of the dagger being used as a room locator for the Death Star wreckage. It’s already established Rey can use the force to locate things, and it’s probably the most nonsensical moment in the original script.

-Cut Finn on the death star wreckage, it’s hilarious they had to delay sailing due to the weather, and then just do it off screen anyway.

-Cut mentions of Poe being a spice runner, it adds little and is accidentally a bit racist on the script writer’s part (whoops, we accidentally made the Guatemalan a drug runner for no reason!)

As someone who actually quite liked the New Jedi Order, I despise basically everything that came after it in Legends. The character assassination of Jacen was insulting and Denning’s weirdness really started to come through in a way it hadn’t in “Star by Star.”

This sounds fantastic! I’ve imagined before how the film might be recut Palpatine-free, but I see someone talented’s already done so! Would love a link.

This sounds fantastic! The clips in the OP are really impressive. Would I be able to get a PM?