Well, what a glorious and fleeting time that was! The brief window when I could watch a Star Wars movie the way normal people do. After those first screenings which bombarded me with too much sensory and emotional stimuli to process clearly, and before the ones where I picked it apart to forge connections as best I could with the larger galaxy far, far away. So basically the third-to-fifth viewings, roughly. But this ninth-pass comes just over three weeks after the previous one, and while it's undeniably true that The Force Awakens is fast becoming my cinematic comfort-food, that break has been long enough to get genuinely buzzed again at the prospect of seeing a Star Wars film in the cinema. That shit will never get old.
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Anyhow, Rebel spies have surreptitiously passed certain documents to WorldOfBlackout informing us of an alternate/extended scene which will be making its way to The Force Awakens as an optional branched-chapter in the upcoming DVD/BRD release.
While we were unable to secure a clip of the video itself, here is a transcript of the extended interrogation scene between Kylo Ren and Rey…
INT. STARKILLER BASE, DAY.
KYLO REN interrogates REY for information about the missing star-chart.
…at night, desperate to sleep, you imagine an ocean.
I see it… I see the island-
You see the what, mate?
The island. The island that you-
What island? What are you talking about?
The island that you imagine-
Eh? Are you taking the piss? I've been living in the desert since I was four! I can barely remember what the sea looks like, never mind dreaming up islands to go in there!
But in your mind, you-
No! Seriously Ren, you don't mind if I call you Ren, do you? Seriously, earlier today was the first time I've seen a body of water in YEARS. I've usually got enough to make my magic-muffins and have a quick wash if I'm lucky. And don't even ask about toilet facilities. If you're pulling out images of an island from my brain, it's probably got more to do with Takodana, this morning.
REN sighs audibly.
…At night, desperate to sleep, you imagine-
STOP THAT! The only reason I'm imagining an ocean is because you're telling me to imagine an ocean! It's not exactly 'Derren Brown', is it? What's your next trick? "At night, you imagine a circus full of elephants. I see her… I see Nelly!". I've got no bloody idea what an elephant even IS, but now I'm imagining one, can you see THAT, Ren? CAN YOU?
…I'm trying to do my job, here?
Well we're all screwed then, aren't we? You're the one who couldn't locate an orange and white droid in a green woodland using a team of thirty Stormtroopers, so decided to adduct the girl instead! You can't even pull accurate picture-postcards from my mind without sketching in half of them yourself, and you're hoping to learn the intricate details of a holo-map of an area I've never seen before, which was only switched on for less than a minute and which I wasn't even looking at properly? Well, good luck with that. And besides, if you've been able to piece together 'the rest of the map', surely you should know where to start looking for Luke, shouldn't you?
Well, I suppose we-
I mean yeah, obviously there's still a big area to cover, but if you know he's hiding somewhere on page 50 of a road-atlas, then someone of your standing should be able to stand at the edge of page 49 and have a good sniff, right?
Well, yes, I'm-
You're clearly the most Force-sensitive person around these parts (for now, and just you remember that), yet here you are banging on about an island neither of us have ever seen??
I'm beginning to wish I hadn't brought that up, yes…
Look, why don't you go back to Señor Smoke or whatever his name is, and tell him-
One, it's Snoke, and two, yes I think I'll go and have my break now. I'll be honest, I was hoping a suitable punchline would have presented itself by this point, but that doesn't seem to be happening. So instead, I'm just going to leave you restrained in this cell under the supervision of a single, slightly inept guard. A bit like in a James Bond film.
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…at night, desperate to sleep, you imagine an ocean.
You see the what, mate?
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