The Rise of Skywalker JWFan EXCLUSIVE: The Rise of Skywalker Partial Cue List Revealed

[crumbs 14,287]

I suspect, if Anthem of Evil is Psalm of the Sith, then it was initially tracked to resemble something like this:

 

 

Of course, the final cut plasters Vader's Castle over the Anthem of Evil theme, then fragments of Final Saber Duel over the rest (plus other incidental evil music that we can't place, because it isn't in the spreadsheet either).

 

It's conceivable the entire Star Destroyer reveal originally belonged at the end of the film, and this is what Williams scored to accompany it.

[dylanskie 104]

1 hour ago, crumbs said:

I suspect, if Anthem of Evil is Psalm of the Sith, then it was initially tracked to resemble something like this:

 

 

Of course, the final cut plasters Vader's Castle over the Anthem of Evil theme, then fragments of Final Saber Duel over the rest (plus other incidental evil music that we can't place, because it isn't in the spreadsheet either).

 

It's conceivable the entire Star Destroyer reveal originally belonged at the end of the film, and this is what Williams scored to accompany it.

 

Beautiful job. If Psalm of the Sith was intended for the final cut of the film, then I believe it went in this scene. The Anthem of Evil theme lacks an "introduction" in the film, so to speak, and this would be the perfect time to introduce that theme.

[p0llux 392]

This worked much better for me than reprising the Imperial March in this scene. The Anthem of Evil with epic visuals to accompany it's introduction would've made it have a far more prominent role in the film. Good work!

[artguy360 1,842]

I like Anthem of Evil there a lot. It totally works as big, evil, reveal music.

[Jay 37,254]

23 hours ago, crumbs said:

I suspect, if Anthem of Evil is Psalm of the Sith, then it was initially tracked to resemble something like this:

 

 

Of course, the final cut plasters Vader's Castle over the Anthem of Evil theme, then fragments of Final Saber Duel over the rest (plus other incidental evil music that we can't place, because it isn't in the spreadsheet either).

 

It's conceivable the entire Star Destroyer reveal originally belonged at the end of the film, and this is what Williams scored to accompany it.

 

That was awesome, much better than the final cut

[crumbs 14,287]

19 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

That was awesome, much better than the final cut

 

Just wait until you see what I've discovered with the Speeder Chase! 

[Fabulin 3,506]

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[Holko 9,491]

11 minutes ago, crumbs said:

 

Just wait until you see what I've discovered with the Speeder Chase! 

Ooh!

[JohnnyD 1,220]

On 3/22/2020 at 10:20 AM, crumbs said:

I suspect, if Anthem of Evil is Psalm of the Sith, then it was initially tracked to resemble something like this:

 

 

Of course, the final cut plasters Vader's Castle over the Anthem of Evil theme, then fragments of Final Saber Duel over the rest (plus other incidental evil music that we can't place, because it isn't in the spreadsheet either).

 

It's conceivable the entire Star Destroyer reveal originally belonged at the end of the film, and this is what Williams scored to accompany it.

 

"Salm of the Psith"? I think you need to re-edit that video title.

 

Otherwise, that was really awesome; I would not be surprised if that part of Anthem of Evil was composed and recorded for the reveal of the Sith Fleet. Maybe the entire piece, Anthem of Evil, was originally meant to score Kylo Ren's encounter with Palpatine, perhaps an alternate. We won't know until a definitive release of the Maestro's score comes out (along with the other eight).

[crumbs 14,287]

This was a score restore I had to try but the results have broken my heart.

 

 

I accomplished this with a single 8 second trim of JW's cue. How they felt obliged to dump the entire second half of Williams' intentions and replace it with tracked music from TFA is anyone's guess. Surely the film's most offensive instance of tracking, and certainly the most unnecessary.

 

8 hours ago, JohnnyD said:

"Salm of the Psith"? I think you need to re-edit that video title.

 

Thanks, fixed!

[Holko 9,491]

Oh wow. Fuck these hacks.

[Jay 37,254]

1 hour ago, crumbs said:

This was a score restore I had to try but the results have broken my heart.

 

 

I accomplished this with a single 8 second trim of JW's cue. How they felt obliged to dump the entire second half of Williams' intentions and replace it with tracked music from TFA is anyone's guess. Surely the film's most offensive instance of tracking, and certainly the most unnecessary.

 

Holy shit, that was great!  Much better than what they did in the final cut!

[JohnnyD 1,220]

4 hours ago, crumbs said:

Thanks, fixed!

 

"Pshalm of the Phsith". You made it worse!!!

 

All seriousness, though, it should be Psalm of the Sith.

[Jay 37,254]

[JohnnyD 1,220]

I knew it was a joke.

[Jay 37,254]

Ok good

[JohnnyD 1,220]

4 hours ago, crumbs said:

This was a score restore I had to try but the results have broken my heart.

 

 

I accomplished this with a single 8 second trim of JW's cue. How they felt obliged to dump the entire second half of Williams' intentions and replace it with tracked music from TFA is anyone's guess.

 

That is very cool! I always wanted to see how that was originally scored. Keep these coming, if possible. By the way, why not have the entire scene with the entire cue? Same with Psalm of the Sith / Anthem of Evil? Just curious.

[Pellaeon 593]

#ReleaseTheJWCut

[crumbs 14,287]

6 hours ago, JohnnyD said:

 

That is very cool! I always wanted to see how that was originally scored. Keep these coming, if possible. By the way, why not have the entire scene with the entire cue? Same with Psalm of the Sith / Anthem of Evil? Just curious.

 

I'm a bit wary of copyright takedowns (which deleted my last batch of videos) but I'll have a special new video later today for the entire opening sequence which should whet your appetite if you like long videos. 

[Cerebral Cortex 3,357]

Excellent job, Crumbs. Really fun watching these. Having the score implemented in these ways would have really gone a long ways to dispelling some of the views from viewers that thought this film provided little to no new memorable musical material. 

[crumbs 14,287]

3 hours ago, Cerebral Cortex said:

Excellent job, Crumbs. Really fun watching these. Having the score implemented in these ways would have really gone a long ways to dispelling some of the views from viewers that thought this film provided little to no new memorable musical material. 

 

Yes, it's no surprise people have labelled the score just more of the same when the Imperial March is tracked over Anthem of Evil, March of the Resistance is tracked over the Victory theme, original action cues like Speeder Chase and Journey to Exogol are replaced with tracked music from elsewhere in the film. Then there's all the recorded music that was deleted, including the Death Star fight, amazing renditions of Anthem of Evil in Join Me, etc.

 

And to add insult to injury, the original score is mostly buried under sound effects while the note-for-note reprisals from previous scores are showered with love in the mix (Yoda and the Force, Binary Sunset, March of the Resistance, etc.)

[Fabulin 3,506]

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[crumbs 14,287]

This is where it gets hard doing score restore videos because Williams clearly scored a very different version of the film for many cues on the OST.

 

Rather than conform the music to fit the final picture (the film already does that) I've tried to find the best fit for the music with slight edit changes to help it fit. Surprisingly, not much needed to be done for either of these two cues (although I did repeat a couple of shots just to fill some dead space).

Obviously Journey to Exogol went totally unused while Prologue was only partially used in the final cut (it was mostly dialled out or replaced with tracked music). So here is all the music restored with my best approximation of what Williams was trying to accomplish, synced to film based on what remained of these cues in the final cut. The music for Kylo Ren entering the temple is a noteworthy addition that was dialled out in the final cut:

 

 

[Fabulin 3,506]

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[crumbs 14,287]

2 hours ago, Fabulin said:

Don't worry about precise filling of the music with film scenes. Wouldn't it be possible to fill the gaps with a simple black screen? This would really bring the point home as to how much has been changed / how much footage remains unreleased.

 

In theory this is the ideal but I can't stress how hard it is with JJ's films. The music is looped in some places and trimmed in others. It's very difficult to sync Williams' intentions to picture because two shots will line up perfectly then the third will be out by half a second.

 

I will put up a video like you described for the opening sequence because that clearly scored a much longer cut. 

[TheUlyssesian 2,473]

Why is the Knights of Ren theme in there after the ship lands?

[Jay 37,254]

Because the final film tracked Mustafar music into the Exegol scene and Crumbs kept it in his video

[DominicCobb 194]

20 hours ago, crumbs said:

 

 

 

These are really fun, keep em coming. Just as a technical question, what are you using to edit, and how are you attempting to isolate the voices (anything beyond just isolating the center channel)? Some parts are pretty decent.

[crumbs 14,287]

2 minutes ago, DominicCobb said:

These are really fun, keep em coming. Just as a technical question, what are you using to edit, and how are you attempting to isolate the voices (anything beyond just isolating the center channel)? Some parts are pretty decent.

 

Adobe Premiere Pro for the edit, with the 5.1 audio mix removed in places and replaced with just the centre (vocal) channel from the mix (though the music track bleeds into this channel and can't be removed, it's still cleaner than leaving in the entire 5.1 mix).

[DominicCobb 194]

12 minutes ago, crumbs said:

 

Adobe Premiere Pro for the edit, with the 5.1 audio mix removed in places and replaced with just the centre (vocal) channel from the mix (though the music track bleeds into this channel and can't be removed, it's still cleaner than leaving in the entire 5.1 mix).

 

Gotcha. That's my go to method as well for things like this but I'm always on the lookout for a new solution. Guess the music bleed is just better in some spots than others.

[crumbs 14,287]

The Emperor's dialogue was surprisingly clean, likely because they made it boomingly loud in the mix and relegated the music to surround channels. 

[DominicCobb 194]

Yeah that stood out to me in particular. 

 

Are there any other clips you're planning on re-scoring? I imagine The Speeder Chase is a given.

[crumbs 14,287]

8 minutes ago, DominicCobb said:

Are there any other clips you're planning on re-scoring? I imagine The Speeder Chase is a given.

 

Believe me, still trying on that one.

 

The first 40 and last 90 seconds fit like a glove but the rest is a total headscratcher. There's at least 30-40 seconds of missing footage, so this must have been a very, very early cue in the scoring process.

[Jay 37,254]

You're doing great work and I really enjoy watching these

 

[crumbs 14,287]

@Jay, I'm doing a deep dive on the final film compared to this spreadsheet and discovering some interesting things (one of the first being that The Emperor Lives appears to be an alternate to Rey's Mission).

 

I divided every reel into separate timelines and matched the timings to the spreadsheet. Almost all cues lined up, some were a few seconds out (likely due to minor trims in various scenes) while others had some interesting differences (obvious ones being the total omission of 8M07 Big Ship Blows Up and 2M32 Quicksand).

 

I pieced together all the fragments of Approaching the Nursery to see if I could make sense of Prologue.

 

For starters, I assembled the cue list and sorted by cue title, just to see how much repetition existed across the film. Lighter blue represents an appearance in early reels, darker blue represents appearances in latter reels (out of 8):

 

Reel	Start	End	Title	Dur	Old Notes
1	0:23:20	1:50:03	1M01 Main Title	1:26	Star Wars 1:26
1	1:50:03	2:30:13	1M022 The Ninth Beginning	0:40	Kylo :06
1	7:49:12	8:13:10	1M05 Rey Trains	0:24
3	19:35:21	19:58:14	1M06 Ren's Entrance	0:22
5	17:14:23	17:34:04	1M06 Ren's Entrance	0:19
1	2:30:13	4:34:05	1M08 Approaching The Nursery	2:04	Kylo :11
3	10:59:11	11:37:19	1M08 Approaching The Nursery	0:38
5	16:56:12	7:14:23	1M08 Approaching The Nursery	0:18
6	12:56:21	13:36:23	1M08 Approaching The Nursery	0:40	Emperor :18
1	6:01:17	6:19:09	1M09 Rey Wakes Up	0:18
1	8:30:20	9:23:12	1M13 Tell Me What They Are	0:53
1	4:34:05	4:48:12	1M15 Vader's Castle	0:14	Vader :14
1	6:19:09	7:49:12	1M20 Rey Training	1:30	Rey :15 Vader :06 Kylo :04
1	5:31:15	6:01:17	1M24 Meditation	0:30	Force :12
1	10:07:17	12:39:01	1M26 Lightspeed Skipping	2:31	Emperor :05 Resistance :04 Falcon :07
6	12:00:07	12:56:21	1M26 Spy's Message	0:56
2	9:38:01	10:10:17	2M01 Cockpit Dialog	0:33
2	4:50:08	6:03:13	2M02 Fixing The Helmet	1:13	Kylo :06
1	8:21:13	8:30:20	2M03 The Wisdom of Maz	0:09
3	4:01:03	4:48:04	2M04 The Emperor Lives	0:47	Rey :11 Force :14
3	14:13:15	14:37:19	2M04 The Emperor Lives	0:24	Rey :11
2	2:59:05	4:50:08	2M06 The Medal	1:51	Force :22
5	1:15:04	1:41:13	2M06 The Medal	0:26	Force :14
2	6:03:13	6:34:21	2M07 Ship Trip	0:31
3	5:02:08	5:19:18	2M07 Ship Trip	0:17
2	2:10:00	2:52:20	2M20 The Forge	0:43	Kylo :20
2	0:08:00	2:10:00	2M30 Rey's Mission	2:02	Emperor :10 Rey :20 Force :10
2	15:41:22	16:08:00	2M32 Quicksand	0:28
2	7:32:10	9:38:01	0M01 Children's School	2:05	Rey :10 Kylo :14
2	10:27:15	10:56:23	3M00 Lando	0:29
2	11:40:13	12:43:19	3M00 Lando	1:03	Leia :13
2	12:43:19	13:13:05	3M01 Before The Chase	0:29
2	13:13:05	15:29:07	3M03 No Title	2:16	Rey :11
3	4:48:04	5:02:08	3M06 Knights of Ren	0:14
3	0:08:03	0:43:10	3M07 Ochi and the Dagger	0:37
3	1:16:00	2:35:06	3M07 Ochi and the Dagger	1:19
3	5:19:18	7:46:09	4M01 Rey Senses Ren's Approach	2:26	Resistance :11
3	8:48:10	9:55:22	4M02 Rey's Incredible Hand	1:07	Kylo :10
3	15:26:15	17:13:05	4M04 Zucini?	1:46
3	13:01:13	13:28:18	4M05 To The End	0:27
3	12:23:09	14:13:15	4M05B Good Ship, Bad Ship	1:50
3	18:42:17	19:34:04	4M06 He Won't Remember	0:51	Star Wars :08
4	15:49:05	16:11:10	4M07 Rey's Grief	0:22
4	2:40:04	3:39:14	4M10 Red Eyes	1:09	Kylo :04
4	0:53:21	2:01:13	4M11 Poe and Girlfriend	1:07
3	11:28:04	12:23:09	4M12 Ship Walk and Talk	0:55
4	15:16:03	15:44:19	4M12 Ship Walk and Talk	0:29
4	3:51:12	5:45:00	5M01 Meddling and Poe's Crush	1:53	Kylo :11
3	17:13:05	17:22:14	5M03 Hallway Shooting	0:09
4	5:54:08	8:05:12	5M03 Hallway Shooting	2:11	Resistance:07
4	8:06:12	8:55:13	5M05 Rey Sees Mother	0:49	Vader :07
4	9:07:19	11:27:03	5M06 Hard To Get Rid Of	2:19	Emperor :11
4	11:27:03	12:58:23	5M07 I'm The Spy	1:31	Rey :08, Kylo :04, Star Wars :03
4	12:59:00	15:16:03	5M08 Geneology	2:17	Star Wars :04, Rey :04
2	10:56:23	11:40:13	5M10 Landing At ?	0:43
4	17:02:07	18:19:06	5M10 Landing At ?	1:17
6	8:36:23	8:46:01	5M10 Landing At ?	0:09
5	1:41:13	2:45:11	5M12 Off The Waterfront	1:03
5	13:36:13	14:37:13	5M30 Under a Blanket	1:01	Leia :50
3	2:51:05	4:01:03	6M02 Rey Climbs Pipes	1:10
5	2:57:01	3:31:14	6M02 Rey Climbs Pipes	0:34
5	3:52:03	4:20:08	6M02A Climbing	0:28
5	6:59:16	7:49:13	6M04 Daisy In A Veil	0:50
5	7:49:13	7:55:17	6M05 Leia Lies Down	0:06
5	9:52:05	11:17:23	6M07 Stop and Start	1:26	Kylo :06
5	11:34:21	13:36:13	6M08 Healing Wounds	2:02	Force :10
6	0:08:04	0:47:01	6M12 Six Twelve	0:39
6	11:10:08	11:42:02	6M13 Rey's Trip To P	0:32
6	3:10:21	3:17:04	6M20 Sabre Toss	1:45	Rey :06 Force :10
6	2:20:02	2:51:12	7M01 Seven One	0:31
6	2:51:12	3:10:21	7M02 Rey Meets Luke	0:19
6	4:05:17	5:03:02	7M03 Luke's Advice	0:57	Rey :13 Force :14
6	9:39:03	10:08:23	7M04 The Meeting	0:30
6	10:08:23	10:46:00	7M05 March Of The Resistance	0:37	Resistance :37
5	15:15:19	16:56:12	7M08 Father Knows Best	1:43
6	5:03:02	7:33:22	7M10 Leia's Sabre	2:31	Leia :15 Star Wars :15 Yoda :46
6	13:37:01	14:57:05	7M12 Seven Twelve	1:20	Star Wars :04, Force :10
6	14:57:05	15:33:18	7M12A Horses #2	0:36	Force :13
7	0:08:00	2:34:09	7M20 Approaching The Throne	2:27
7	2:34:09	4:09:16	7M21 Parents	1:35
7	4:46:01	6:52:07	7M30 More Action	2:06
7	6:52:07	8:36:01	7M32 Make The Sacrifice	1:43
7	10:59:06	12:41:10	7M36 Dunkirk	1:42
7	14:04:12	17:12:20	7M38 I Am All The Sith	3:08
1	4:48:12	5:31:15	8M04 Psalm of the Sith	0:43
2	10:10:17	10:27:15	8M05 Jumping The Chain	0:17
7	17:12:20	18:08:21	8M07 Big Ship Blows Up	0:56
3	10:11:15	10:40:03	8M08 On Their Knees	0:28
7	18:08:03	18:46:13	8M10 Success and Sliding	0:38	Falcon :07
7	18:46:22	19:37:15	8M11A Dropping The Sabre	0:50	Rey:30
8	0:16:00	4:32:00	8M14 Ben to Rey	4:16
8	9:48:04	10:21:21	8M15 Horn Solo	0:33	Force :33
8	10:21:12	22:37:00	8M16 End Credits	12:00	Star Wars :30 Rey 1:00
8	4:32:00	7:50:05	9M03 Bows	3:18	Star Wars :08, Force :19, Yoda :40 Rey:13 Luke &Leia :43
8	8:00:15	9:42:15	9M05ALT Return to Tatooine	1:42

 

The other major discovery is that reels 3-8 of the final cut are reasonably consistent with this spreadsheet and answer some questions about the contents of many cues, while reels 1 & 2 clearly underwent heavy restructuring in the final month. A scene (and cue) involving Kylo Ren's helmet was completely omitted in reel 2.

[Jay 37,254]

31 minutes ago, crumbs said:

A scene (and cue) involving Kylo Ren's helmet was completely omitted in reel 2.

 

What do you mean?  2M13 Fixing The Helmet plays for the same about 1:15 length in the final cut just like it does in the Nov 11 cut.  It's the scene where the Knights of Ren fix his helmet, then he goes to talk to the other head honchos on the ship in the board room wearing it.  It plays from 19:26-20:41 in the final cut.

[crumbs 14,287]

26 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

What do you mean?  2M13 Fixing The Helmet plays for the same about 1:15 length in the final cut just like it does in the Nov 11 cut.  It's the scene where the Knights of Ren fix his helmet, then he goes to talk to the other head honchos on the ship in the board room wearing it.  It plays from 19:26-20:41 in the final cut.

 

2M20 The Forge is missing from the final cut, not 2M02 Fixing the Helmet (although this cue appears to be butchered in the final cut compared to the November cut, considering the lack of notation about the Emperor's Theme, the pitch-adjusted tracked music from TFA and the different length of Kylo's theme).

 

0:08:00	2M30 Rey's Mission	2:02	Emperor :10 Rey :20 Force :10	Timings match final cut
2:10:00	2M20 The Forge	0:43	Kylo :20	Scene missing in final cut
2:59:05	2M06 The Medal	1:51	Force :22	19 seconds longer in final cut (original cue length was 2:33, per the OST)
4:50:08	2M02 Fixing The Helmet	1:13	Kylo :06	Emperor theme in final cut, tracked music from TFA in final cut, Kylo music in final cut runs 0:10
6:03:13	2M07 Ship Trip	0:31		Timings match final cut, other than a tracked sting at the start

[Jay 37,254]

What makes you say 2M20 The Forge is a scene involving Kylo's helmet?

[crumbs 14,287]

The 20 second usage of Kylo's Theme, the title of the cue, also the early leaks that describe a more involved sequence on Mustafar with the Knights of Ren and ape creature who reforges his mask.

 

It also seems to indicate he originally helped them activate the Wayfinder (all of this was scrapped and restructured in the final cut). 

[Jay 37,254]

So the helmet was fixed once on Mustafar then again later by the Knights?  How does that work?

[Smeltington 1,436]

It would make sense if Kylo AND the Knights of Ren went on this whole quest to get the Wayfinder, use it, and the helmet just got reforged in the process. As it is, the helmet scene is kind of pointless to the overall story, right?

[crumbs 14,287]

The helmet forging sequence seems to take place on Mustafar, based on that leak (piles of ash outside the entrance). It also mentioned the ape-creature enabling some device to help Kylo (the Wayfinder?) so maybe this sequence originally took place between the Mustafar raid and the first meeting with the Emperor?

[Jay 37,254]

What's it doing in the Nov 11 cut in between the rebels discussing the Emperor's message & the We Go Together scene where they take off?  Tracked into some different Kylo scene that at the time broke up the Ajan Kloss scenes I guess?

[crumbs 14,287]

Yeah, could just be a different scene that got cut out. Nothing else at that point in the film matches the 0:20 of Kylo's theme. There was a lot more intercutting between Ajan Kloss and the other storylines in the Nov 11 cut, whereas the final cut glued all those Ajan Kloss scenes together.

[Holko 9,491]

The helmet scene could have been placed at many different points. It's JJ.

[Jay 37,254]

If it took place on Mustafar though, it couldnt really be moved around.

 

The other helmet fixing scene, the one we have in the final film, did move, since it was written as 2m2 but plays in the final cut between 2m6 and 2m7

[Will 2,215]

@crumbs, wow, thank you so, so much for these score restores. I hope you try your best to do a Speeder Chase one too, although I know, as you have said, that one is extremely difficult. 

 

I particularly adore the "They Will Come" restored version. It's really a gorgeous, optimistic moment with Williams' cue, but with the tracking it feels like just another random scene in the movie. JW's soaring victory theme manages to take something that could come across as cringe-worthy ("Now we take the war to them," etc.) and turns it into a stirring moment of hope. 

[Cerebral Cortex 3,357]

14 minutes ago, Will said:

I particularly adore the "They Will Come" restored version. It's really a gorgeous, optimistic moment with Williams' cue, but with the tracking it feels like just another random scene in the movie. JW's soaring victory theme manages to take something that could come across as cringe-worthy ("Now we take the war to them," etc.) and turns it into a stirring moment of hope. 

 

The whole battle that immediately follows I found to be surprisingly nihilistic, making musical moments like this all the more needed at this point in the film. Stripping them away causes the film to feel just that much emptier. 

[Will 2,215]

16 hours ago, Cerebral Cortex said:

 

The whole battle that immediately follows I found to be surprisingly nihilistic, making musical moments like this all the more needed at this point in the film. Stripping them away causes the film to feel just that much emptier. 

 

Great way to put it. I really did not like the final battle (with the exception of a couple moments like Lando's arrival with the ships). It's so dark and gloomy in the cinematography that it feels a little like Yates' Deathly Hallows or something. And I didn't feel like any of it had very much moral gravity to it. 

[Holko 9,491]

I really tried paying attention to what goes on in that final battle on rewatch.

 

Good guys arrive

We gotta take out the ground tower, they can't navigate then

They're going for the ground tower, shut off the ground tower

Ground tower shut off just when good guy fighters get to it

Now they're using a tower on an SD

Gotta use a lander and land on the SD and take it out from the surface (why don't they just shoot it like they were going to shoot the ground tower, I have no idea by now)

Finn goes with the lander

Landet lands on the opposite side to make it harder

They ride out on horses for two trailer shots because they landed on the wrong end, literally no other reason but to do a trailer shot with useless horses

Whew, first stretch over, a lot happened, how long was that? 2 MINUTES, ARE YOU INSANE? You have virtually zero time to process anything, nothing has any weight whatsoever when strategies fly by and change and characters teleport places in 3 shots.

Then we cut back a few times to the ground team shooting troopers, grenading something for some reason, then Lando arrives and we have about 5 shots of visual mess with random ships.

Then Palps lightnings them, everyone falls, but Palps stops because he's stupid so I guess they're not falling anymore?

Then at a random point Finn rigs some gun and shoots the tower...again, why didn't they fly in and shoot it with a fighter, the landers could land just fine.

 

Oh and at some point the fighters just start shooting the dick guns because they can just be shot with fighters and explode. But not the tower.

 

It's a spectacular mess.