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Overall Synopsis: Episodes 7-9, restructured to unify the trilogy and, of course, remove Rey’s Palpatine lineage.
Running Time 5h7m
My editing source for the first two movies are the amazing Hal9000 Edits. The last movie edits were wasonly assisted by user "jonH" an "poppasketti" on OriginalTrilogy.com (Thanks jonh and poppasketti, your work is amazing!) for a couple shots, which really helped nail what I was going for.
Main overall changes:
Kylo’s character arc is pretty well fleshed out already, the most cohesive character arc of the ST, imo.
Rey needs to stay a nobody. And she slowly discovers her powers. She does not hit a stormtrooper with her first shot with a blaster, and she has been de-powered along the way as much as possible. Eventually, Ren admits she has power like Palpatine, but that is the most that is alluded to. She is just a special “nobody.”
Poe’s character arc is nowhere near as complex as Kylo, but pretty much laid out for us.
Admittedly, Finn kinda disappears in the final fight – too many absurd parts to leave him in (no horses on spaceships in this cut.) Overall he now is NOT force sensitive, This means he does not ever make and successful attacks with the lightsaber as well. Only once does he ask Rey about a boyfriend, from then on he keeps friendship motivations.He's all about "togetherness" in the end.
Characters like Hux and Rose have been severely sidelined as they just do not have satisfying character arcs. Both simply fade out of importance in the final movie, but I hope I have not made it too obvious. Hux is no spy, simply muscled out by other power hungry commanders. I loved Rose in TLJ, but without adequate character development in TROS, it was best to minimize her to simply a person helping Finn on HIS character arc. Consequently, the scenes at Canto Bight are greatly reduced, and Rose and Finn simply do not pilot speeders at the battle of Crait.
Video specs: H.264, 1920x1080, 23.976 fps.
Audio specs: Stereo (Using 5.1 as source but too many silent center channel moments.)
In my opinion, the end matters most - Thats why I started there. Kylo has redemption in death, Rey kills resurrected Palpatine, and the Galaxy shows up FINALLY to help out and defeat an oppressive force. Anything else was expendable.
Change List Specific to TROS:
· Recut Kylo on Mustafar to seem like he's just murding people and is nuts. Doesn't need to find the wayfinder, he already has it.
· Replaced footage of Snoke in the cloning tanks with Palpatine in the cloning tanks (thanks poppasketti)
· Removed Palpatine’s line about creating Snoke and being all the voices in his head.
· Removed his promise of a fleet. The motivation for Kylo to align is simply vanity, about truly becoming the next Vader.
· Removed plotline about Rey connecting with all the past Jedi.
· Edited down Rey’s training, removing Leia training her all altogether.
· Added future Palpatine shots to Rey’s vision during training
· Removed the notorious ‘lightskipping” scenes all together
· Edited Rebels discussion to remove mention of a Sith fleet and to lean into the cloning angle.
· Removed Rey and Leia’s discussion about leaving. (too forced, sorry Leia. You do best when you just die in this one, you kinda gave Poe command at the Battle of Crait)
· Removed lines with Hux and Kylo about the Mask.
· Removed General Pryde’s defense of the sith cult.
· Removed some of the Pasaana scenes and removed the child asking Rey’s name. (we get it!)
· Removed Pasaana Storm trooper chase
· Removed Worm Force Healing
· Removed Kylo’s ship exploding.
· Removed reveal of Chewbacca on another transport.
· Removed mention that R2 units can restore C3PO’s memory
· Removed Zorii storyline.
· Removed Rey’s mention to shoot the cameras on the star destroyer (really? Only now, after 2 movies?)
· Removed Hux spy plotline.
· Reduced Kylo and Rey’s Force discussion and battle.
· Re-edited Rey to say she only sees herself on the Sith Throne
· Reduced almost all of the Jannah storyline
· Removed Finn and Jannah chasing Rey onto the Death Star
· Re-edited Leia to simply be dying, and to calling out to Kylo as her last effort – not the intent to stop Kylo in order to let Rey kill him, Leia never gave up hope.
· Re-edited Kylo and Rey Death star fight to remove Rey stopping Kylo’s lightsaber with the force
· Re-edited Kylo hearing Leia, dropping his saber and Rey stabbing him to be quicker and to feel like Rey quickly took advantage of the situation before realizing how dark that was.
· Removed Kijimi PLANET exploding, implied that only the city was destroyed.
· Re-edit Rebel discussion to remove “planet-killing star destroyers”
· Removed force ghost Luke catching lightsaber.
· Moved Leia Jedi training montage to previous movie.
· Removed force ghost Luke straining to raise his X-Wing.
· Added subtitle to cult chants “Assembled flesh, rise again!” (my most questionable of all edit choices, imo)
· Removed Palpatine needing Rey to Strike him down. Left part about Palpatine moving to her body if she does.
· Removed all mention of Rey being a Palpatine again
· Removed Ben being tossed down the hole.
· Reordered to have Ben save Rey after they are both struck down by Palpatine. Used 4k footage to crop out the lightsabers in the shot that would affect continuity. Added lightning flashes and sith cult chants in the background.
· All Finn and Jannah storylines in the final fight have been removed (no horses on spaceships)
· Removed “I am all the sith” and “I am all the jedi” chat, its really as simple as a revived Rey kicks a weak Palpatine’s ass. Added some force ghosts to help her.
· Added games scene on the Falcon with Chewie, Poe and Finn to Tatooine arrival and falcon departing Tatooine shot (thanks Hal9000)
· Added Ben to final force ghost vision (thanks jonH)
· Removed Rey’s new lightsaber reveal, and the interaction with the old woman on Tatooine...
Running Time 5h7m
My editing source for the first two movies are the amazing Hal9000 Edits. The last movie edits were was
Main overall changes:
Kylo’s character arc is pretty well fleshed out already, the most cohesive character arc of the ST, imo.
Rey needs to stay a nobody. And she slowly discovers her powers. She does not hit a stormtrooper with her first shot with a blaster, and she has been de-powered along the way as much as possible. Eventually, Ren admits she has power like Palpatine, but that is the most that is alluded to. She is just a special “nobody.”
Poe’s character arc is nowhere near as complex as Kylo, but pretty much laid out for us.
Admittedly, Finn kinda disappears in the final fight – too many absurd parts to leave him in (no horses on spaceships in this cut.) Overall he now is NOT force sensitive, This means he does not ever make and successful attacks with the lightsaber as well. Only once does he ask Rey about a boyfriend, from then on he keeps friendship motivations.He's all about "togetherness" in the end.
Characters like Hux and Rose have been severely sidelined as they just do not have satisfying character arcs. Both simply fade out of importance in the final movie, but I hope I have not made it too obvious. Hux is no spy, simply muscled out by other power hungry commanders. I loved Rose in TLJ, but without adequate character development in TROS, it was best to minimize her to simply a person helping Finn on HIS character arc. Consequently, the scenes at Canto Bight are greatly reduced, and Rose and Finn simply do not pilot speeders at the battle of Crait.
Video specs: H.264, 1920x1080, 23.976 fps.
Audio specs: Stereo (Using 5.1 as source but too many silent center channel moments.)
In my opinion, the end matters most - Thats why I started there. Kylo has redemption in death, Rey kills resurrected Palpatine, and the Galaxy shows up FINALLY to help out and defeat an oppressive force. Anything else was expendable.
Change List Specific to TROS:
· Recut Kylo on Mustafar to seem like he's just murding people and is nuts. Doesn't need to find the wayfinder, he already has it.
· Replaced footage of Snoke in the cloning tanks with Palpatine in the cloning tanks (thanks poppasketti)
· Removed Palpatine’s line about creating Snoke and being all the voices in his head.
· Removed his promise of a fleet. The motivation for Kylo to align is simply vanity, about truly becoming the next Vader.
· Removed plotline about Rey connecting with all the past Jedi.
· Edited down Rey’s training, removing Leia training her all altogether.
· Added future Palpatine shots to Rey’s vision during training
· Removed the notorious ‘lightskipping” scenes all together
· Edited Rebels discussion to remove mention of a Sith fleet and to lean into the cloning angle.
· Removed Rey and Leia’s discussion about leaving. (too forced, sorry Leia. You do best when you just die in this one, you kinda gave Poe command at the Battle of Crait)
· Removed lines with Hux and Kylo about the Mask.
· Removed General Pryde’s defense of the sith cult.
· Removed some of the Pasaana scenes and removed the child asking Rey’s name. (we get it!)
· Removed Pasaana Storm trooper chase
· Removed Worm Force Healing
· Removed Kylo’s ship exploding.
· Removed reveal of Chewbacca on another transport.
· Removed mention that R2 units can restore C3PO’s memory
· Removed Zorii storyline.
· Removed Rey’s mention to shoot the cameras on the star destroyer (really? Only now, after 2 movies?)
· Removed Hux spy plotline.
· Reduced Kylo and Rey’s Force discussion and battle.
· Re-edited Rey to say she only sees herself on the Sith Throne
· Reduced almost all of the Jannah storyline
· Removed Finn and Jannah chasing Rey onto the Death Star
· Re-edited Leia to simply be dying, and to calling out to Kylo as her last effort – not the intent to stop Kylo in order to let Rey kill him, Leia never gave up hope.
· Re-edited Kylo and Rey Death star fight to remove Rey stopping Kylo’s lightsaber with the force
· Re-edited Kylo hearing Leia, dropping his saber and Rey stabbing him to be quicker and to feel like Rey quickly took advantage of the situation before realizing how dark that was.
· Removed Kijimi PLANET exploding, implied that only the city was destroyed.
· Re-edit Rebel discussion to remove “planet-killing star destroyers”
· Removed force ghost Luke catching lightsaber.
· Moved Leia Jedi training montage to previous movie.
· Removed force ghost Luke straining to raise his X-Wing.
· Added subtitle to cult chants “Assembled flesh, rise again!” (my most questionable of all edit choices, imo)
· Removed Palpatine needing Rey to Strike him down. Left part about Palpatine moving to her body if she does.
· Removed all mention of Rey being a Palpatine again
· Removed Ben being tossed down the hole.
· Reordered to have Ben save Rey after they are both struck down by Palpatine. Used 4k footage to crop out the lightsabers in the shot that would affect continuity. Added lightning flashes and sith cult chants in the background.
· All Finn and Jannah storylines in the final fight have been removed (no horses on spaceships)
· Removed “I am all the sith” and “I am all the jedi” chat, its really as simple as a revived Rey kicks a weak Palpatine’s ass. Added some force ghosts to help her.
· Added games scene on the Falcon with Chewie, Poe and Finn to Tatooine arrival and falcon departing Tatooine shot (thanks Hal9000)
· Added Ben to final force ghost vision (thanks jonH)
· Removed Rey’s new lightsaber reveal, and the interaction with the old woman on Tatooine...
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