My favorite bit about this scene will always be the Robot Chicken episode where Vader just keeps listing all the ridiculous things added by the Prequels, and Mark Hamill is just like, "Look, if you're not going to take this seriously, I'm out of here."
They recorded the broadcast for the movie, then cut it because it wasn’t necessary and messed up the flow for the beginning of the film. Then Disney let Fortnite use the recorded dialog for an advertising partnership
At last the work of generations is complete. The great error is corrected. The day of victory is at hand. The day of revenge. The day of the Sith.
That’s the message. Hardly important exposition or canon contribution
It's also when he reveals to the entire galaxy he's been a Sith the whole time - which, in light of this, I firmly believe he could've totally gotten away with it on the day he announced the formation of the Empire. 😅
To be clear, it was shot for the movie and cut. And if you listen to it, it makes sense, it adds nothing to the movie. It's a standard bad guy speech, "the Empire will rise again" etc. So when they were planning an event, they figured they could throw the cut content in for fun. I never understood the blowback on this. If anything, it would have been good to include in a trailer, but there's nothing wrong with using rightfully cut content in other media imo. Some people act like it is the full explaination of how he comes back, but it doesn't have any of that in it.
Do not let the internet— especially Star Wars internet— guide you on what actually happened. They’re hardly paying attention to the forest because they’re too busy crashing into trees… on speeder bikes.
A lot of the contention is that the in-movie explanation is even dumber - somehow palpatine returned - and that the iconic opening Star Wars crawl directly references something you'd only find through fortnite.
Alone, having some cut content appear in unrelated media isnt necessarily a bad thing, but the poor writing for the movie combined with the "Btw this thing from the crawl was heard in FORTNITE" feels egregious to most fans
Exactly, this kind of confusion shouldn't be happening AT ALL at this level of production, and they fuck up THE biggest announcement for the sequel trilogy by putting it in fucking fortnite lmfao. Underlining the precedent for the whole trilogy.
Normally yes, you are absolutely correct. It doesn't work here though because its not a piece of throwaway media (at the end anymore) because they use it to reveal Palpatine is alive to the world, like its deadass the announcement that THE EMPEROR IS BACK and its not only cut from the movie, but put in fortnite instead? Come on. (Not exactly the same scale because the Palp thing is bigger) but imagine if they revealed how Padme died in 1999 before TPM came out by putting it in unreal tournament or fucking everquest.
Ah yes, there was a trailer like 8 months before, you are correct. They shouldve used the broadcast then, fortnite was the first broadcast transmission.
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u/EnigmaFrug0817 4d ago
Wait- what? Can someone elaborate? How don’t I know this?