Current Events > How woukd you fix TLJ? *spoilers*

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I thought there was a lot of cool stuff in there but way too much filler, so here's what I would do:

1. Include a shot in the bomber scene where you're looking down out of the bomb hatch toward the dreadnaut and the nearby planet is in view, to explain that the bombs fall because they're moving toward the planet (maybe I'm the only one but this bothered the hell out of me).

2. Kill Leia in space.

3. Rewrite the Rose/Finn thing. I kinda liked Rose's "innocent to a fault" personality, but the writing around her needs improvement. Exclude the "hey our friends are dying let's look through binoculars at the monster races and talk about how mean rich people are" scene. Come up with a better start than "I'm gonna tase you for trying to run away, then immediately we both come up with the idea to run away." Just have Finn get shot down and Rose goes to help him. She can still say her line. Maybe he's like "noooo forget me stop the cannon" and then she says it. The line was fine, it was just in a terrible context.

4. I actually kinda liked Admiral Pink but get rid of all the dumb mutiny crap. Just have her say "everyone evacuate" and then not get onboard, while everyone is like "nooooooo."

5. Have Luke hand the lightsaber back instead of tossing it over his shoulder. I get what they were trying to accomplish--the audience is disappointed with his reaction just like Rey is--but it was a bad way to accomplish it.

6. Maybe make Snoke just not have force mindreading powers instead of having the force mindreading powers that are... wrong for some reason. Alternatively, maybe in 9 he turns out to have known exactly what Kylo was doing but he was an illusion or he secretly pulled an Obi-wan "strike me down and blah blah" move or something.

7. We're left with a pretty short movie after cutting all the filler so probably combine it with 9 and just make the ST a two-parter (which isn't a trilogy anymore).
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not make it
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Add hot alien chicks
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Have Luke Skywalker actually be Luke Skywalker
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Switch Rose with her sister
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Honestly, just remove the side plot. It was boring.
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1. hire an actual screenwriter to write the film, rather than have Tommy Wiseau write it, like Disney seems to have done

2. Set a hard limit, punishable by death, for how many 4th wall breaking jokes you can put in. You get 3 for the whole movie, not per scene.

3. Kill off Leia in space

4. Remove the Canto Bright scene, the whole thing

5. Remove Rose

6. Create a plotline for the movie that is not a nonsensical low-speed car chase

7. Have Luke Skywalker act like Luke, so people that liked his character in the iconic trilogy can continue to like him, and not kill him off by doing Luke Skywalker VR

7. Develop Snoke as a character since he is pretty much the only alien in the whole fucking film and we learn absolutely nothing about him

8. Dump the Yoda scene, it was stupid to have to have Yoda come back to talk sense into Luke, as if all of his character development throughout the original trilogy was for nothing

9. The bomber scene bugged me too, how the fuck were they dropping physical bombs in space? There have been photon torpedos and shit for decades in Star Wars

10. Add in aliens and shit like that. The whole appeal of Star Wars has always been the scope, but it seems like Disney is more concerned with having humans of different races for kids to buy halloween costumes for than to create an actual intergalactic universe like Lucas did

11. Give Finn a meaningful sideplot. I get the point the writers were trying to make with him but it barely even tied in with the narrative at large, which is ridiculous for a movie like this

man i could go on for hours, god damn I hated TLJ
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Make Holdo not stupid. Make Luke live. Actually have aliens.
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