Chirrut believes in the Force. Baze doesn't. Chirrut's example brought Baze around. It's a small arc but it's there, and it's not shabby in the emotional payoff when it happens.

Jacklyn Peppermire receives an anonymous payment with instructions to kill the infamous "Baron," a corporate banker and mayor of a town in Switzerland, who has a habit of making his political enemies disappear.
Baron is a retired master assassin himself, so Pepperjack has to approach the whole situation with extreme caution, as many others have tried to kill this guy, with no success. He's just too good.
After scoping out the town, Pepperjack makes her first attempt...which goes wrong when Baron reveals he'd known about her being hired to kill him.
Barely escaping with her life, Pepperjack has to call it quits to save herself, but when all her special and secret accounts are drained of funds, she knows the banker Baron is behind it, and goes back to kill him to get her money.
After pulling off a particularly unorthodox plan, she finds herself face-to-face with Baron. An epic fight ensues, but the older assassin's age has finally caught up to him, and Pepperjack beats him. When she demands to know how to retrieve her money, Baron reveals that he was the one who hired her! He'd been hating himself for his past crimes for years, but couldn't stand to kill himself. So he'd been hiring other great assassins to kill him, but all had failed until Pepperjack.
He congratulates her, smiling mysteriously and saying, "I knew you'd be the one to succeed," and dies. She's frustrated when the Swiss army arrives and forces her to escape before recovering her money.
Later, Jacklyn Peppermire receives a letter saying that Georg von Krenn, mayor of a town in Switzerland, had been murdered, but his will had stipulated all his assets should go to her.

hehehe

+5 points for the exact length of the vid being 1234

I'm game, though I've been brainstorming on this in the meantime and it's quite a different beast.

On the subject of Weasley actors, how about the guys who played Fred and George? I think they "fit" the doctor a little bit better, and you could do a lot of fun things with two guys who look the same.

Get twice as much principle photography done in the same time, too ;P

That is so great

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kL8 … sp=sharing

Here's a link to what the hell's going on with this story and its characters. There's a lot of stuff in here that isn't (and doesn't need to be) in the script itself, but it should help put faces and context on everything.

Honestly I'm just delighted as hell that anyone besides me is excited to put more than 2-minutes effort into this. Anything else I can do to help ye honeste volunteers, lemme know.

Wow. Listened to the DiF on this one again, and this time I read through these posts....
Fun times. I clearly missed some of the more contentious ages of this community.

One thing that nobody in the discussion (DiF or forum) talks about is how wrong everyone was about Nero's motivations: he explicitly tells them to Pike while torturing him, and it makes sense.

Nero tells pike about how torn up he is that his family died, and then he got wormholed back in time. Pike tells him Romulus is still there. Nero screams at him because "I saw it happen!"
I understand this might be where the confusion comes from, but I see it as 1) an emotional outburst which even normal people have, and 2) even though Nero KNOWS that Romulus is fine in this timeline, he STILL WILL NEVER SEE HIS FAMILY again, since they're a century in his future now. From his (reasonable) perspective, his beloved wife and child are dead. THIS is why he wants to hurt Spock Prime (sure, Spock was trying, but again, Nero is allowed a little senseless rage).

So that explains his emotional moment there.
More importantly, what follows is Nero's self-explanation: he knows he now has a century to save Romulus. He's not concerned about that. He's torturing Pike so he can get the codes to shutdown federation defenses or whatever. Why?
"To create a new future for Romulus, one free from the Federation."
That's it. Right there. Literally in the movie. Even aside from Romulus Prime blowing up, the Romulans and Federation have mostly hated each other, and Nero has decided to kill everyone so that his home Empire will be able to expand unchecked into the next century. This (while definitely a bit megalomaniacal) is a perfectly good motive for everything Nero does as a villain. After he blows up Vulcan (to punish Spock Prime AND to remove Romulus' enemy) he goes to earth to do the same thing. Nero has a century to save Romulus, and he's going to change its future into a Glorious, unopposed Empire "free of the Federation."

TL;DR I think Brian's main story critique (and the other guys agreed on this point mostly) is actually groundless. The villain's motivation is totally explained, by the guy, in the movie, clearly: he has all the time in the galaxy to save Romulus, but he's going even further, freeing it from the Federation so the Romulan Empire can grow unchecked in the new timeline.

Contrary to Teague's nefarious accusations, I DO hate being that guy. I only said something because you said the graphic had something to do with your short film, and I'd hate for you to get flak from THE INTERNETS. It's like when you've got broccoli in your teeth: it's awkward, but a good friend tells you.

This isn't the first time I've heard this, but I disagree. I thought the first "hour" was great for developing the characters and establishing motivations. And sure WE know what the Death Star can do, but it was really cool to see the characters reacting to even its low-power operation. For me, it made the Death Star (after 3 movies with a variant) more imposing and "real" than ever before.

But that's me. I'm more interested in hearing from Trey or anyone who agrees with him (because I'm genuinely curious): what makes the first "hour" of this movie different from the character setup from, say Star Wars '77? Couldn't that movie have started with the Alliance looking up and there's the Death Star over their secret base? Or maybe with a ship of misfits showing up at the Death Star to rescue the princess after the Tantive IV opening? Do we really need to know why a Jedi hermit, a farmboy, a scruffy smuggler, and his pet human show up to help?
I liked the setup of Rogue One, and it's fine if we disagree, but what makes it less important than the setup of Star Wars or any other movie? (since we're probably not getting a DiF discussion anytime soon)