The Shadows of the Past Trilogy
Episode 8: The Last Jedi Part 5
The Resistance flees with the First Order fleet on their tails, just as in the original movie. Slowly, the First Order dwindles down their ships and slaughters many until it is just the one ship fleeing from the Supremacy. Poe is demoted
by Holdo, though, instead of Leia, for Holdo learns that Poe was ordered to
continue to protect the Raddus, and he disobeyed that order. Now it is Poe’s fault that Leia is dying and
Ackbar and most of the command crew are dead; or so Holdo states.
Holdo takes charge, Poe rebels, Leia recovers and promotes Poe in the end to General (as in the movie), and Finn and Rose head off to Canto
Bight to try to get a slicer to help them disable the Supremacy’s inhibitor and
to mess with the hyperspace tracking systems, which Finn knows about, again
because he was guarding the sensor tech labs, where he gleaned a lot of
knowledge about the First Order’s sensor and tracking technologies.
As for the Canto Bight
sequence, I didn’t mind most of it. I
liked the fact that they showed the wealthier side of the Star Wars galaxy and
made a point that people get rich off of other people’s pain. I also liked that they discovered that most
weapon dealers were selling weapons to both the First Order and the
Resistance.
The part I would remove was the racing animals charging through the place with Finn and Rose riding on
them and then helping them to escape into the wild. It just seemed to be a bit out of place for Star Wars. BB8 hurling coins at people was
a bit odd as well.
Therefore, replace all that with the escape from Canto Bight being a bit more sabotage and subterfuge with BB8 and DJ being the only reason they got away.
Then, as an added touch, before coming to Finn and Rose’s rescue, BB8
sabotages a power generator so that it creates a diversion and explodes in a
massive fireball.
The explosion then releases the
animals and spreads chaos throughout the entire city, shutting down power to
half the town while wild animals stampede to escape back into the wild. So as their stolen space yacht is flying
away, Rose sees the animals fleeing into the plains to freedom. It does the same thing, but keeps it a bit
more serious and meaningful, for now the point of the animals
escaping is that it is all a part of the diversion.
One other thing I would add to
this part is a quick comment from Rose to DJ.
Rose asks DJ if he is the person they are looking for, providing the
guy’s name, and DJ laughs and says, “Nah.
Most call me DJ, for Don’t Join.”
He then gestures to his hat. “But
trust me…I’m way better than that guy.” At
least then people would know his name, why he is called DJ, and that he WASN’T the
guy they were initially looking for.
Until reading the book, I had no idea DJ wasn’t the slicer they were
looking for.
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