Why Couldn’t The Rise Of Skywalker Gang Just Know Where Palpatine Was?
The obstacle:
Where is the Emperor? Somehow, Palpatine has returned, and our heroes need to find him to destroy him once and for all. Rumor says he’s on a planet named Exegol, but no one knows where that is. They have to find this mysterious Exegol, located somewhere in the vast galaxy.
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The movie’s solution:
They find a thing that points them to a thing that points them to a thing that points them to Palpatine. It makes zero sense and takes up the entire movie.
It makes so little sense that even mocking it is no fun. If it made a little sense, we could put on our plot hole spectacles and write an article asking, “In real life, could a dagger ever be precise enough to point to a single room in wreckage the size of a moon?” Instead, we find ourselves asking, “WTF is this? Why would anyone ever send directions this way? Are we supposed to find any of this engaging? A scavenger hunt isn’t a story. We might as well watch Rey play Tetris for 30 minutes.”
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“Honestly, I don’t even care at this point.”
But what if instead …
I’ve heard various suggestions for streamlining the plot, from cutting out one destination planet to save time, to having the heroes just zip straight to the Death Star remains, since they guess it’s a spot filled with clues. I want to go further than that. How about they know where Exegol is, from the very start of the story?
This movie is about Palpatine having a giant secret army with the power of a hundred death stars. The heroes, meanwhile, are few and weak. The rebels are the ones facing impossible odds. There’s no need for Palpatine to hide.
And I know, the movie writes in a reason, something about him still being exactly 15 hours and 31 minutes from achieving FULL POWER. I’m saying they shouldn’t have bothered with that. Anyway, he seems to have all those scary planes in play during the final battle, so it doesn’t look like showing up early cut him off from anything. So, lose the entire story about having to track him down. Just have the heroes go confront him as soon as they’re ready.
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What should the writers do with all the time we save this way? Why, anything they like. Maybe they could write a plot of some kind, where events lead to consequences, instead of quest markers leading to new quest markers. Maybe characters could exchange dialogue. What an opportunity, getting to write a whole movie that’s not Rise of Skywalker.
Slashing so much would improve this particular movie, because this particular movie was terrible throughout; even its most passionate defenders agree on that. But in general, anytime we can trim these bloated blockbusters, we should do it. For example …
4 Movies That Wasted Most Of The Plot On Pointless Stuff
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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