Just realized how bad they were treated. Lando was only brought back for fan service and Chewbacca had to see all of his friends die. He literally saw his best friend for years die right in front of him.
@@vit968 and its so dumb because in Canon, medals mean nothing to wookies which is why he didn't get one in the first place. So, to Chewie, all he has to remember his friends is a hunk of worthless metal
Lando is such an underappreciated character. His betrayal wasn't even much of a betrayal. He was an administrator and had to make a difficult choice between turning over his friend to be captured or putting millions of his citizens in serious danger. I'm sure if he had explained things better to Han, he would have understood his choice. But even with that, he tried to argue the legality of the situation to Vader twice, and once his people were no longer in danger, immediately risks the lives of his own security guards to try and save Han and his friends. After that he then put his own life on the line to rescue his friend from Jabba, joined the Rebellion, believed in Han until the very end, and played a pivotal role in defeating Palpatine's imperial regime.
@@ron87SBP After appearing half way through the movie. They made the same commentary in Stranger Things S2 with Ghostbusters's Winston, the black guy was an afterthought
Never considered how they and particularly Lando were done dirty. I was just so excited about being able to see my favorite Star Wars character ‘Lando’ again, that I didn’t see how they could have utilized him better. But I really love the ideas present here and wish they would have been explored in the movie.
Even Anakin was done dirty. By the time of the Sequels he was already a force ghost, but didn’t intervene when Ben was being swayed to the Dark Side by a voice of Darth Vader? Really??
@@byMidnyt Obi-Wan told Luke to use the force in the trench run, guided him to Yoda on Dagobah, and warned against going to Bespin, so I’d say that qualifies as intervention
Maybe Anakin's ghost was just too tired. I'd be tired too if I spent like 30+ years in a tin can that was designed to make every moment of my life endless torment. Also Ben is a horsefaced nimrod and screw him.
God damn, this actually made me shed a few tears. This is a brilliant idea, and it makes me wish the writers room had half as much passion for the source material as you do. Thank you for sharing this.
I shed a tear as well. So much more passion and love for the characters. It's a shame that the writers didn't understand human connection and storytelling in this way. Makes me sad to to think what a great story we could have had, versus what we got.
This video had me in tears. There is just so much tragedy in Star Wars, and to imagine a beautiful nuanced scene like this; its breaks my heart we never got to see anything like this. And it would've broken my heart even more if we did.
Watching this video, I’m struck with thoughts of Uncle Iroh. What would have been more perfect than Chewie telling Kylo Ren something along the lines of “I was never angry with you. I was sad, because I was afraid that you had lost your way.”
Heck me, this wrecked me my dude! I always love your stuff, but seldom have I found myself struggling to keep the tears back. Well written, well drawn, well said. This would have been beautiful. And here it was. Thank you.
Absolutely. Leia, Han and Luke were made into total failures, but people often ignore how the sequels also treat Lando and Chewie. Lando, like everyone else, abandons his friends he suffered so much for. Chewie is made into Rey's comic relief tagalong. Even R2 and 3PO are just tagalongs.
This actually made me cry I adored it!! This actually makes so much sense! Another missed opportunity in Episode 9, at this point I’m starting to believe the Skywalker saga ended at 8
This was a brilliant video. The simplicity of the sketches is exactly what was needed to make the video feel heart felt and paired perfectly with Mr. Kim's musical score. Top marks, great work.
I really like this idea - but lmao on “touch of a Wookiee” - i think you could see a dolly round the two holding each other revealing the younger Ben the other side
Your rendition of events in this video brings the charm and beauty that made the expanded universe truly amazing and special. This is what the sequels were lacking.
I love the idea of any of the characters from the old series getting respectful and compelling scenes. If i only got to choose two, Lando and Chewie wouldn't have been my first pick. I recall watching a retrospective on the end of game of thrones by Lindsay ellis, and her parting commentary for every main character is 'damn, you were done dirty'. That is the Star Wars Sequel series in a nutshell. Every character is disrespected and diminished. It is so sad to go back and watch interviews with mark hamill, the love he caries for Luke is palpable in his every comment and expression. He argued against the transformation of the character because he knew it wasn't what any fan wanted to see. The disrespect for the legacy character's is the cardinal sin of the new trilogy, and doomed star wars... However as new character's go, you cannot do worse than Kylo Ren. He is a pin-up poster coupled with petulant child, and given an incomplete copy of an idiots guide to the dark side. He is not sinister or threatening, he is like a small angry dog straining at the end of a chain... his rage makes him a cartoon, a laughable living caricature of mindless, uncontrolled rage. He has a bare bones history, next to no personality, and never really feels organically connected to anything. This scene with Chewie and Lando would have helped, but I still feel that Adam driver had it in him to do an actually imposing evil, that was worth the effort to redeem! As is, the pathetic version of Kylo Ren pulls down Star Wars is a colossal way. Just as Kathleen Kenedy intended... undercutting all of Lucas's achievements.
Also Kylo had nothing to gain in joining the dark side the Disney trilogy never explain what was his goal besides ruling the galaxy bullshit they never flesh out anything of the characters at all this whole trilogy is a waste of time.
Up until this very moment, it didn’t even cross my mind that the fact that chewbacca and kylo knew each other for so many years. damn what a sad trilogy
Rise of Skywalker is a movie that is really too fundamentally broken at the very foundation to be fixed with adjustments. But I admire the thought you’ve put into this. Legacy characters in the sequel movies were all busted out either for empty nostalgia or to be broken down. Neither Johnson or Abrams had a coherent idea on how to move the story forward in any meaningful way. Really in just positing that Kylo Ren would have had a relationship with Lando and Chewie alone you’ve put more effort into the story than Disney who really just wanted another Vader adjacent thing
EVERYONE was done dirty in the Sequels... Especially Anakin and his legacy, same for Luke. But most of all... Us. The actual fans that see more than the pile of cash that Star Wars portrayed to f******* Disney
this interpretation truly made me well up. These 3 movies, heck, this entire franchise is something you never think will have so much an effect on you, until someone(usually dave filoni, but in this case you guys) steps up and punches you in the gut. I only wish abrams and his team had people with as much as heart in their writing as you.
one thing i instantly noticed is the in Rise is that when Ren has Chewie captured he put his Bowcaster and Bandolier in his personal trophy room alongside Vaders helmet. In someway I see it taking that spot due to their history.
😢I’m honestly surprised how hard the brief comic and your simple rewrite/addition hit me in the feels. Ton of bricks hard. “I love you 3000” and “Your dad loved cheeseburgers” hard.
It's almost as if some time and appreciation for past already founded characters could've produced a satisfying moment within a film meant for those enthusiastic about Star Wars. Another reminder of how awesome the sequels could've been of actually given some effort and thought. Thanks full fat for a great addition to the growing head cannon rewrite🙌🙌🙌
I never thought Kylo should’ve been redeemed, but I really do love this idea for his redemption. If it had to be done, this would’ve been a very smart way to do it
I Saw that Ben comic sometime after Force awakens but before Last Jedi and when i was at the cinema to see Last Jedi I pulled up that comic on my phone and showed it to everyone I went to see the movie with.
I like it. I don't know if it works as something in the movie as it stands, but I find it neat. I also have a similar idea where Kylo Ren is trying to rest while his Star Destroyer is in Hyperspace, but a visitor enters his quaters, obscured in the darkness. Kylo Ren springs out of bed, reaches for his lightsaber, but it doesn't ignite. He tries again, but nothing happens, so he throws it away and uses the Force against this figure he doesn't recognize, and it crushes the walls of his quaters, but doesn't affect the figure. This figure, is Anakin with a slight blue glow. Anakin tries to convince Ben that the Dark Side is not worth it, but Kylo Ren won't listen. Anakin begins to walk towards him, slowly becoming this horrifying monster with robotic limbs as he shares the sacrifices he made to gain more and more power. Frightened by what he is seeing, Ben backs into the wall behind him. "You think you know the power of the Dark Side?" Anakin then bursts into flames with the image of Vader emerging forth with a hand outstretched to reach at Ben's throat saying, "You don't know..." Ben's face is turned away, near tears, the Vader turns back into Anakin "...just what you're in for," as the flames extinguish themselves. The other Jedi of Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Luke visit him and share that they all have made their fair share of mistakes, but it's never too late, and it is ultimately up to Ben to choose his own destiny rather than being told what his destiny is. The constant advice becomes too much and Kylo lets out a scream "STOOOOP!" Te ship makes an emergency exit out of Hyperspace, and Kylo Ren is shaken from the bed, smacking against the floor. The floor is not scorched by flames, the walls are undamaged, and his lightsaber remains on a nightstand where he left it before lying down. Kylo Ren questions if what he saw was real, a vision, or a combination. He then realizes that an alarm has been sounding the whole time since he fell out of bed. He opens the door to his quarters to see troops and officers scrambling in the hall. The reason for the alarm: Palpatine's message has just been broadcast. Kylo Ren orders that the ship make a course change for Mustafar, knowing there is something of Vader's that could be of value in finding Palpatine, the Wayfinder. Later on Exegol, when he's told that Palpatine has been every voice inside his head, Kylo Ren believes that what he experienced on the ship was a test, and he passed. And then unfortunately The Rise of Skywalker plays out as is, but you know, having Anakin interact with Kylo Ren at least once was an opportunity not taken, and I like the idea that Ben was so close to returning, only to then slip back into his ways as Kylo Ren.
Man I love this idea so much. It’s honestly sad to even look back on the sequels at this point with how much wasted potential there was there. I keep hoping that they’ll be able to correct ship but I’m not sure that’ll happen under Disney.
It was a quick shuttle trip back to the command ship, and it hadn’t given Kylo Ren nearly enough time to prepare. He stopped before the door of Interrogation Six, rallying his thoughts. He had all the power now, he reminded himself. The Wookiee was his past. He meant nothing to him. Kylo opened the door. Chewbacca was shackled to the wall. He looked up at Ren, fury in his eyes. “I have not forgotten that you shot me,” Kylo said. That wound had resulted in a defeat at Rey’s hands. Had he been in top fighting form, the scavenger never would have gotten the best of him. With a wave of Kylo’s hand, Chewbacca’s shackles opened and clanked to the floor. He removed the lightsaber from his belt. Dropped it to the ground. “Kill me,” Kylo taunted. “I’m unarmed. Now’s your chance. Have your revenge for Han Solo.” Chewbacca had never been stupid, and so he made no move. But he growled, dark and low. “Feel that?” Kylo continued, merciless. “It makes you feel alive, doesn’t it? That burning. The dark side. It makes you powerful. You understand that. The scavenger will understand it, too.” He sensed a stab of fear from the Wookiee, on Rey’s behalf. Kylo smiled, for he’d just been given his way in. Chewbacca loved the girl. In time, he would love her as much as he’d loved Han Solo. The way he’d never really loved Ben. Snoke had been the one to show him that. Kylo’s voice crackled with rage. “What was her mission? Where is she going? Give me the answer…or I’ll take it myself.” It should have been satisfying to watch Chewbacca wince in fear. Kylo should have felt pleasure in reaching out with the Force, inserting himself into the Wookiee’s mind, ripping away his memories and thoughts. Instead, it was exhausting. He saw flashes of the Wookiee laughing with a much younger Han Solo than he himself remembered. Felt Chewbacca’s joy when his best friend married the woman he’d come to love like a sister. Saw the Wookiee cuddling a human toddler, teaching an older boy to fly a speeder, target practice with a young man, their blasters set on stun against a haphazard dummy made of rocks. Uncle Chewie, he’d called him back then. Nausea rolled around in the pit of Kylo’s stomach when he finally walked away from Interrogation Six. He’d gotten what he needed. Surely the sense of triumph would follow soon. - -Rise of Skywalker Novelization Least Disney honored some of it.
How great would it be if Taika Waititi’s Star Wars movie turned out to be a Lando/Chewie team up set in both the ‘Solo’ time frame and the Sequel time frame, with old Lando and Chewie finishing an adventure they started thirty (or more?) years earlier.
OMG!! this was my head canon! like of course Chewbacca knew and spent time Kylo and he logically wouldn't want to kill him outright! thank you so much for sharing this. I had no idea other people saw it like that as well.
You're making the terrible assumption that the jaded, whiny internet fan boys would be anything close to accepting of the idea that Chewie could change his mind, because reasons.
I for one can't get past the way so many are treated like cartoon characters. Wearing the same clothes, no matter what point in their life they are at. *Lando* is not only wearing the same shirt, he clearly had to get another one that was much bigger this time. And what are the odds he's wearing that same one when we see him again? 🤦🏼♂️ _"Audiences might not recognize it's Lando if he's not wearing the same shirt."_ 🙄
They had one chance to finish the story started by the original trilogy, and they wasted it. I have no idea why. But it fills me with sadness that they chose to make blockbusters with emphasizing on the new people while hurting the old ones. I genuinely wish we had heartfelt moments like this. So many fans have poured love into rewrites of this trilogy, it makes me sad it went that terribly in reality
Like many things in the sequels you can’t watch all three movies and understand what’s going on completely and truly get an idea of what’s going on you need extra content. I understand this isn’t a problem unique to the sequels and the prequel’s faced that but I feel like they handled it better.
Except the sequels take Han’s and Luke’s arcs from the original trilogy and simply make the characters into failures so that the arcs can be haphazardly done again. Han is a selfish smuggler who has to step into a situation he’s not ready for and learn self-sacrifice. Luke has to come to grips with the past failure of the Jedi and then finally confront the big bad guy (who happens to be a family member) and ultimately “win” by refusing to engage in a lightsaber fight, sacrificing himself in the process. Han’s and Luke’s arcs in TFA and TLJ already happened in the original trilogy. The characters therefore have to be torn down, degraded, humiliated, and all their character progression undone so that Disney could do the same stories all over again. In the process of doing that, they ruined those two beloved characters and made them into sorry old failures who apparently learned nothing from their experiences in the original trilogy.
100% AGRRE 10X - Love Chewie and Lando and part of the reasonwhy we even enjoy Solo: A Star Wars Story. We alwasy expected since they cut the scene with Kylo Ren sitting aboard the Falcon from TFA that they'd make up for it by fleshing out the relationships between Chewie and Ren and to a lesser extent Calrissian. Amonst a catalogue of missed character opportunities in the trilogy stared with Leia and Chewie's failure to hug after Han's death...
I am so mixed on Chewbacca's fake-out death. I had such a visceral "OH SHIT!" response in the cinema, because I didn't want Chewie to die, but the suddenness of it felt like a decent way to raise the stakes (plus, the fact that Rey accidentally killed him would have been great for her "am I falling to the Dark Side?" angst). However, if we had lost him here, then we never would have gotten that heartbreaking moment when he learns that Leia has died.
They did him dirty in Solo too. Solo made Lando only care about capes and shirts He was much more than that! Lando was one of the main characters, of the OT just like Han, but became administrator of a city instead, he helped evacuate a city, he saved his friends, he became a general and led an assault that blew up the second Death Star. He had a series of books in the 80s about his adventures when he had the falcon, not great but I liked them. He would have been right there with his friends. Shame
Technically, Lando's appearance here does tie in to the "bullshit lore reveals," but we don't get fully into that stuff until the Shadow of the Sith novel came out last year.
Doesn't Chewbaccas bowcaster bolts explode on impact? Isn't that what Han was playing around with on that planet in TFA? So why didn't Kylos side explode?
If they ever do add character customization to Lego Skywalker Saga, I'm making that sweet Ben Solo with Landos cape. Also, you're drawings are WAY better than you made them out to be.
Is there really a discussion about why Chewie didn’t land a kill shot on Kylo in that moment? They were hundreds of meters apart! We’ve seen characters in Star Wars miss at closer range. Hitting the torso is pretty good, all things considered.
Just realized how bad they were treated. Lando was only brought back for fan service and Chewbacca had to see all of his friends die. He literally saw his best friend for years die right in front of him.
And all JJ Abrams thought Chewie cared about was the stupid medal. Like a dogtoy for a dog.
@@vit968 and its so dumb because in Canon, medals mean nothing to wookies which is why he didn't get one in the first place. So, to Chewie, all he has to remember his friends is a hunk of worthless metal
Lando is such an underappreciated character. His betrayal wasn't even much of a betrayal. He was an administrator and had to make a difficult choice between turning over his friend to be captured or putting millions of his citizens in serious danger. I'm sure if he had explained things better to Han, he would have understood his choice. But even with that, he tried to argue the legality of the situation to Vader twice, and once his people were no longer in danger, immediately risks the lives of his own security guards to try and save Han and his friends. After that he then put his own life on the line to rescue his friend from Jabba, joined the Rebellion, believed in Han until the very end, and played a pivotal role in defeating Palpatine's imperial regime.
Yes. Great character. Both good and slightly suspicious, but in a charming way...
...Hello what have we here? 😄
Agreed. Lando is my favorite.
He was an afterthought in the original movies. I guess they needed the little bit of diversity
@@williampearson6299 after though he destroyed the second death star
@@ron87SBP After appearing half way through the movie. They made the same commentary in Stranger Things S2 with Ghostbusters's Winston, the black guy was an afterthought
Never considered how they and particularly Lando were done dirty. I was just so excited about being able to see my favorite Star Wars character ‘Lando’ again, that I didn’t see how they could have utilized him better. But I really love the ideas present here and wish they would have been explored in the movie.
Thank you!!!
Yeah they did a good job making us all forget the emotional connection between Lando Han and Chewie. That could've been a beautiful recovery
@@FullFatVideos Didn't the SJW's bring this up when Finn was sidelined for Rey?
The sequels honestly never even made me realize that Kylo and Chewbacca knew each other.
That was one of the biggest shortcomings of the sequels in my opinion. Chewbacca would have been like an uncle to Ben.
Even Anakin was done dirty. By the time of the Sequels he was already a force ghost, but didn’t intervene when Ben was being swayed to the Dark Side by a voice of Darth Vader? Really??
I wouldn't be surprised if Anakin's absence was a result of the "ignore the prequels" attitude that Abrams adopted when making his films
@@christianwise637 It probably was, but makes no sense in-universe.
in the OT, was there a time when a force ghost actually intervened?
@@byMidnyt Obi-Wan told Luke to use the force in the trench run, guided him to Yoda on Dagobah, and warned against going to Bespin, so I’d say that qualifies as intervention
Maybe Anakin's ghost was just too tired. I'd be tired too if I spent like 30+ years in a tin can that was designed to make every moment of my life endless torment.
Also Ben is a horsefaced nimrod and screw him.
God damn, this actually made me shed a few tears. This is a brilliant idea, and it makes me wish the writers room had half as much passion for the source material as you do. Thank you for sharing this.
I shed a tear as well. So much more passion and love for the characters. It's a shame that the writers didn't understand human connection and storytelling in this way. Makes me sad to to think what a great story we could have had, versus what we got.
This video had me in tears. There is just so much tragedy in Star Wars, and to imagine a beautiful nuanced scene like this; its breaks my heart we never got to see anything like this. And it would've broken my heart even more if we did.
Watching this video, I’m struck with thoughts of Uncle Iroh. What would have been more perfect than Chewie telling Kylo Ren something along the lines of “I was never angry with you. I was sad, because I was afraid that you had lost your way.”
Literally everyone in the sequels was done dirty, old and new characters alike. So much wasted potential....
Nah kylo ren chillin
@@sethmalcolm6955 They still did him dirty
So true
*looks at Finn*
I'm looking at YOU, ROSE!!
Heck me, this wrecked me my dude! I always love your stuff, but seldom have I found myself struggling to keep the tears back. Well written, well drawn, well said. This would have been beautiful. And here it was. Thank you.
Absolutely. Leia, Han and Luke were made into total failures, but people often ignore how the sequels also treat Lando and Chewie. Lando, like everyone else, abandons his friends he suffered so much for. Chewie is made into Rey's comic relief tagalong. Even R2 and 3PO are just tagalongs.
Chewie is more or less an uber driver in the sequels
One of my biggest gripes with the sequels has always been the lack of a relationship between chewy and ben
This actually made me cry I adored it!! This actually makes so much sense! Another missed opportunity in Episode 9, at this point I’m starting to believe the Skywalker saga ended at 8
Okay I actually love this chewie/Lando retcon
Thank you 😊
Damn you almost made me cry, good job with the video
Thanks dude!
This was a brilliant video. The simplicity of the sketches is exactly what was needed to make the video feel heart felt and paired perfectly with Mr. Kim's musical score.
Top marks, great work.
i really wished Chewbacca was treated better, he was always one of my favorites
I appreciate the effort you put in with the sketches. I think they looked perfect and really sucked me into your narrative.
Thank you!!
What are you trying to do to me right now? I'm grown ash man trying to buy some beer at the gas station and you got me neck deep in my feels!
I really like this idea - but lmao on “touch of a Wookiee” - i think you could see a dolly round the two holding each other revealing the younger Ben the other side
Your rendition of events in this video brings the charm and beauty that made the expanded universe truly amazing and special. This is what the sequels were lacking.
Welp, at least Billy dee Williams appeared to be having fun just being there...
THIS IS ACTUALLY SUPER GOOD!!!
I think Leia should’ve died off-screen at the beginning and Rey, Finn, and Poe are at the funeral
I love the idea of any of the characters from the old series getting respectful and compelling scenes. If i only got to choose two, Lando and Chewie wouldn't have been my first pick. I recall watching a retrospective on the end of game of thrones by Lindsay ellis, and her parting commentary for every main character is 'damn, you were done dirty'.
That is the Star Wars Sequel series in a nutshell. Every character is disrespected and diminished. It is so sad to go back and watch interviews with mark hamill, the love he caries for Luke is palpable in his every comment and expression. He argued against the transformation of the character because he knew it wasn't what any fan wanted to see. The disrespect for the legacy character's is the cardinal sin of the new trilogy, and doomed star wars...
However as new character's go, you cannot do worse than Kylo Ren. He is a pin-up poster coupled with petulant child, and given an incomplete copy of an idiots guide to the dark side. He is not sinister or threatening, he is like a small angry dog straining at the end of a chain... his rage makes him a cartoon, a laughable living caricature of mindless, uncontrolled rage. He has a bare bones history, next to no personality, and never really feels organically connected to anything. This scene with Chewie and Lando would have helped, but I still feel that Adam driver had it in him to do an actually imposing evil, that was worth the effort to redeem! As is, the pathetic version of Kylo Ren pulls down Star Wars is a colossal way. Just as Kathleen Kenedy intended... undercutting all of Lucas's achievements.
Also Kylo had nothing to gain in joining the dark side the Disney trilogy never explain what was his goal besides ruling the galaxy bullshit they never flesh out anything of the characters at all this whole trilogy is a waste of time.
Up until this very moment, it didn’t even cross my mind that the fact that chewbacca and kylo knew each other for so many years. damn what a sad trilogy
brought me to tears with that music playing lol....great vid!
Goodness, thank you for giving this reading. The absolute joy of telling a well made story was infectious. Tears I tell you. Tears and cold silence
Rise of Skywalker is a movie that is really too fundamentally broken at the very foundation to be fixed with adjustments. But I admire the thought you’ve put into this. Legacy characters in the sequel movies were all busted out either for empty nostalgia or to be broken down. Neither Johnson or Abrams had a coherent idea on how to move the story forward in any meaningful way. Really in just positing that Kylo Ren would have had a relationship with Lando and Chewie alone you’ve put more effort into the story than Disney who really just wanted another Vader adjacent thing
EVERYONE was done dirty in the Sequels...
Especially Anakin and his legacy, same for Luke.
But most of all... Us. The actual fans that see more than the pile of cash that Star Wars portrayed to f******* Disney
this interpretation truly made me well up. These 3 movies, heck, this entire franchise is something you never think will have so much an effect on you, until someone(usually dave filoni, but in this case you guys) steps up and punches you in the gut. I only wish abrams and his team had people with as much as heart in their writing as you.
HOW can you dare to make me cry so hard this early in the morning… ugh that’s so ducking good man. Thank you
Thank you!!
one thing i instantly noticed is the in Rise is that when Ren has Chewie captured he put his Bowcaster and Bandolier in his personal trophy room alongside Vaders helmet. In someway I see it taking that spot due to their history.
1:35 Tell me you never understood the sequels without telling me you never understood the sequels.
I like to talk in catchphrases on the internet
@@FullFatVideos I like to make videos on the internet where I still miss the point of the characters from a two year old trilogy.
That's what I feel about Obi Wan in Episode 1 and Padme in Episode 3.
I'm on a serious come down after Prima Vera in Portugal and this is bringing me to tears. Wonderful.
😢I’m honestly surprised how hard the brief comic and your simple rewrite/addition hit me in the feels. Ton of bricks hard. “I love you 3000” and “Your dad loved cheeseburgers” hard.
Never forgot that comic & I'm glad you brought it up
This idea is freaking awesome dude.
The whole of star wars was done dirty in the sequels
But especially these two
Chewie
Why didnt Leia go to hug him
Why tf did leia go for rey first
It's almost as if some time and appreciation for past already founded characters could've produced a satisfying moment within a film meant for those enthusiastic about Star Wars. Another reminder of how awesome the sequels could've been of actually given some effort and thought. Thanks full fat for a great addition to the growing head cannon rewrite🙌🙌🙌
Great rewrite; I’ve seen that comic before, they should’ve done something like this in RoS
how had i never even REALIZED chewie and lando would have known ben as a kid, it’s like the movies don’t want u to think about it at all
Ummm.... This is freaking awesome. There's really no shortage of ways to make Rise of Skywalker better.
I never thought Kylo should’ve been redeemed, but I really do love this idea for his redemption. If it had to be done, this would’ve been a very smart way to do it
I Saw that Ben comic sometime after Force awakens but before Last Jedi and when i was at the cinema to see Last Jedi I pulled up that comic on my phone and showed it to everyone I went to see the movie with.
Got me crying in the club.
Unfortunate that this isn’t in the final product, because it’s leaps and bounds beyond the trash we got
Wouldn’t be surprised if they cut a Lando fake out death from TROS 😂
You gave me chills listening to this.
I miss star wars...
I would've loved to see Leia hug Chewie instead of Rey, after Han's death. Makes for an infinitely more emotional scene.
I like it. I don't know if it works as something in the movie as it stands, but I find it neat.
I also have a similar idea where Kylo Ren is trying to rest while his Star Destroyer is in Hyperspace, but a visitor enters his quaters, obscured in the darkness. Kylo Ren springs out of bed, reaches for his lightsaber, but it doesn't ignite. He tries again, but nothing happens, so he throws it away and uses the Force against this figure he doesn't recognize, and it crushes the walls of his quaters, but doesn't affect the figure. This figure, is Anakin with a slight blue glow. Anakin tries to convince Ben that the Dark Side is not worth it, but Kylo Ren won't listen. Anakin begins to walk towards him, slowly becoming this horrifying monster with robotic limbs as he shares the sacrifices he made to gain more and more power. Frightened by what he is seeing, Ben backs into the wall behind him. "You think you know the power of the Dark Side?" Anakin then bursts into flames with the image of Vader emerging forth with a hand outstretched to reach at Ben's throat saying, "You don't know..." Ben's face is turned away, near tears, the Vader turns back into Anakin "...just what you're in for," as the flames extinguish themselves. The other Jedi of Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Luke visit him and share that they all have made their fair share of mistakes, but it's never too late, and it is ultimately up to Ben to choose his own destiny rather than being told what his destiny is. The constant advice becomes too much and Kylo lets out a scream "STOOOOP!" Te ship makes an emergency exit out of Hyperspace, and Kylo Ren is shaken from the bed, smacking against the floor. The floor is not scorched by flames, the walls are undamaged, and his lightsaber remains on a nightstand where he left it before lying down. Kylo Ren questions if what he saw was real, a vision, or a combination. He then realizes that an alarm has been sounding the whole time since he fell out of bed. He opens the door to his quarters to see troops and officers scrambling in the hall. The reason for the alarm: Palpatine's message has just been broadcast. Kylo Ren orders that the ship make a course change for Mustafar, knowing there is something of Vader's that could be of value in finding Palpatine, the Wayfinder. Later on Exegol, when he's told that Palpatine has been every voice inside his head, Kylo Ren believes that what he experienced on the ship was a test, and he passed.
And then unfortunately The Rise of Skywalker plays out as is, but you know, having Anakin interact with Kylo Ren at least once was an opportunity not taken, and I like the idea that Ben was so close to returning, only to then slip back into his ways as Kylo Ren.
Holy shit I can't remember the last time I felt somthing like this with a Star Wars story. I really wish they would've committed this to film.
Amazing thank you
No. Stop. I wasn't planning on crying today.
I believe the title of this video should have been "Why Star Wars Was Done Dirty".
Man I love this idea so much. It’s honestly sad to even look back on the sequels at this point with how much wasted potential there was there. I keep hoping that they’ll be able to correct ship but I’m not sure that’ll happen under Disney.
Whaaaat~
Original characters were done dirty in the sequels???
Shocking
It was a quick shuttle trip back to the command ship, and it hadn’t given Kylo Ren nearly enough time to prepare. He stopped before the door of Interrogation Six, rallying his thoughts. He had all the power now, he reminded himself. The Wookiee was his past. He meant nothing to him. Kylo opened the door. Chewbacca was shackled to the wall. He looked up at Ren, fury in his eyes. “I have not forgotten that you shot me,” Kylo said. That wound had resulted in a defeat at Rey’s hands. Had he been in top fighting form, the scavenger never would have gotten the best of him.
With a wave of Kylo’s hand, Chewbacca’s shackles opened and clanked to the floor. He removed the lightsaber from his belt. Dropped it to the ground. “Kill me,” Kylo taunted. “I’m unarmed. Now’s your chance. Have your revenge for Han Solo.” Chewbacca had never been stupid, and so he made no move. But he growled, dark and low. “Feel that?” Kylo continued, merciless. “It makes you feel alive, doesn’t it? That burning. The dark side. It makes you powerful. You understand that. The scavenger will understand it, too.” He sensed a stab of fear from the Wookiee, on Rey’s behalf. Kylo smiled, for he’d just been given his way in. Chewbacca loved the girl. In time, he would love her as much as he’d loved Han Solo. The way he’d never really loved Ben. Snoke had been the one to show him that. Kylo’s voice crackled with rage. “What was her mission? Where is she going? Give me the answer…or I’ll take it myself.” It should have been satisfying to watch Chewbacca wince in fear. Kylo should have felt pleasure in reaching out with the Force, inserting himself into the Wookiee’s mind, ripping away his memories and thoughts. Instead, it was exhausting. He saw flashes of the Wookiee laughing with a much younger Han Solo than he himself remembered. Felt Chewbacca’s joy when his best friend married the woman he’d come to love like a sister. Saw the Wookiee cuddling a human toddler, teaching an older boy to fly a speeder, target practice with a young man, their blasters set on stun against a haphazard dummy made of rocks. Uncle Chewie, he’d called him back then. Nausea rolled around in the pit of Kylo’s stomach when he finally walked away from Interrogation Six. He’d gotten what he needed. Surely the sense of triumph would follow soon. -
-Rise of Skywalker Novelization
Least Disney honored some of it.
Is that actually in the book
@@ashton4987 Yep, like many books, they’re pretty easy to find online 😂😂😂
How great would it be if Taika Waititi’s Star Wars movie turned out to be a Lando/Chewie team up set in both the ‘Solo’ time frame and the Sequel time frame, with old Lando and Chewie finishing an adventure they started thirty (or more?) years earlier.
This is so well thought out and would have been infinitely better than the schlock we were given
Just Lando and Chewie? They messed up *everyone's* story royally
Bloody love your content x
OMG!! this was my head canon! like of course Chewbacca knew and spent time Kylo and he logically wouldn't want to kill him outright! thank you so much for sharing this. I had no idea other people saw it like that as well.
You're making the terrible assumption that the jaded, whiny internet fan boys would be anything close to accepting of the idea that Chewie could change his mind, because reasons.
The music is so good!
I genuinely teared up in you scene, god that would've been awesome, if only someone at Disney believed Chewbacca and Lando are people
I for one can't get past the way so many are treated like cartoon characters. Wearing the same clothes, no matter what point in their life they are at. *Lando* is not only wearing the same shirt, he clearly had to get another one that was much bigger this time. And what are the odds he's wearing that same one when we see him again? 🤦🏼♂️
_"Audiences might not recognize it's Lando if he's not wearing the same shirt."_ 🙄
They had one chance to finish the story started by the original trilogy, and they wasted it. I have no idea why. But it fills me with sadness that they chose to make blockbusters with emphasizing on the new people while hurting the old ones.
I genuinely wish we had heartfelt moments like this.
So many fans have poured love into rewrites of this trilogy, it makes me sad it went that terribly in reality
I've never even cared about Chewie and Lando until now, but this made me feel for them so deeply, I have no words.
The two most famous black characters from the original trilogy were shafted, I agree.
The Sequels did everyone dirty
Billy dee williams is the only actor that bothers to voice lando every single chance he gets
Like many things in the sequels you can’t watch all three movies and understand what’s going on completely and truly get an idea of what’s going on you need extra content. I understand this isn’t a problem unique to the sequels and the prequel’s faced that but I feel like they handled it better.
Legit teared up as you were narrating the Lando Ben scene 🥲
That little comic displays more emotional depth and character development than all three Star Wars sequels combined
When chewy hugged Kylo, i shed a couple tears😭😭
hey great video, greater sketches 10/10 c;
Hahah thanks
Damn it 😢
Such a fun meditation! Love how that storytelling brain works!
I liked Han in the force awakens, I kinda felt like he fitted him then. The other characters = badd
Except the sequels take Han’s and Luke’s arcs from the original trilogy and simply make the characters into failures so that the arcs can be haphazardly done again. Han is a selfish smuggler who has to step into a situation he’s not ready for and learn self-sacrifice. Luke has to come to grips with the past failure of the Jedi and then finally confront the big bad guy (who happens to be a family member) and ultimately “win” by refusing to engage in a lightsaber fight, sacrificing himself in the process.
Han’s and Luke’s arcs in TFA and TLJ already happened in the original trilogy. The characters therefore have to be torn down, degraded, humiliated, and all their character progression undone so that Disney could do the same stories all over again. In the process of doing that, they ruined those two beloved characters and made them into sorry old failures who apparently learned nothing from their experiences in the original trilogy.
The way you vocal fry the last syllable of literally every sentence is driving me up a wall.
I remember seeing that comic and literally crying.
100% AGRRE 10X - Love Chewie and Lando and part of the reasonwhy we even enjoy Solo: A Star Wars Story. We alwasy expected since they cut the scene with Kylo Ren sitting aboard the Falcon from TFA that they'd make up for it by fleshing out the relationships between Chewie and Ren and to a lesser extent Calrissian. Amonst a catalogue of missed character opportunities in the trilogy stared with Leia and Chewie's failure to hug after Han's death...
I am so mixed on Chewbacca's fake-out death. I had such a visceral "OH SHIT!" response in the cinema, because I didn't want Chewie to die, but the suddenness of it felt like a decent way to raise the stakes (plus, the fact that Rey accidentally killed him would have been great for her "am I falling to the Dark Side?" angst). However, if we had lost him here, then we never would have gotten that heartbreaking moment when he learns that Leia has died.
They did him dirty in Solo too. Solo made Lando only care about capes and shirts He was much more than that! Lando was one of the main characters, of the OT just like Han, but became administrator of a city instead, he helped evacuate a city, he saved his friends, he became a general and led an assault that blew up the second Death Star. He had a series of books in the 80s about his adventures when he had the falcon, not great but I liked them. He would have been right there with his friends. Shame
Technically, Lando's appearance here does tie in to the "bullshit lore reveals," but we don't get fully into that stuff until the Shadow of the Sith novel came out last year.
You’re right I forgot he had a daughter
@@FullFatVideos So did the movie.
Its a shame that this video is the best thing to come from the sequels. This is now my head cannon
Legends chewacca takes moon to face canon gets a medal his kind don't want
This would've been a good fit, excising some of the fluff for great personal character interaction.
Doesn't Chewbaccas bowcaster bolts explode on impact? Isn't that what Han was playing around with on that planet in TFA? So why didn't Kylos side explode?
God forbid that we get any use from the actual actors.
If they ever do add character customization to Lego Skywalker Saga, I'm making that sweet Ben Solo with Landos cape. Also, you're drawings are WAY better than you made them out to be.
I got shivers and I haven't even seen this movie
man that alternate story would be so amazing if Han died before hand and Lando was basically bens dad you know?
In 11 minutes time you have officially invested more effort into the writing of TROS than the actual writers did.
Lando, Chewie, Leia, Luke, Han, Palpatine...the list goes on
amazing, i cried! why couldnt they think like this!
I never knew about chewie and Ben, but fuck bro, you’re making me cry with your fan fic
Thank you!!!
Hello there
General Kenobi
You are a bold one
Matt stop writing the best fanfic ever, you keep making me emotional
bro this is the best thing ever. It wouldn't save the movie but it's amazing
Is there really a discussion about why Chewie didn’t land a kill shot on Kylo in that moment? They were hundreds of meters apart! We’ve seen characters in Star Wars miss at closer range. Hitting the torso is pretty good, all things considered.
But yes, the headcanon is good.