Rise of The Redemption - The Coldest Day [Plot Upcoming]

Sweet. I'll watch it later.

I'm happy you liked it

I really need to catch up on these

Episode 7 - Wiz-Bliz Trivia:
- The title Wiz-Bliz describes two key plot points in the episode. Wiz obviously stands for Wiz-Man and Bliz is a short version of Blizzard, representing Hoth's involvement in the episode.
- However in the original script the planet was just a random snow planet instead of Hoth
- This episode features the first ever mention of what happened to Darren's mother.
- This was the first time since Saboteurs i used Folus again.
- If you remember at the end of Episode 6 Obi-Wan mentioned the tour that Ravi held in this episode. Meaning this episode takes place shortly after Vengeance.
- This episode was always meant to be the "Senate Spy" of the series, having no action or weapons used.
- Although not mentioned in the episode Darren's homeplanet is nearby Hoth.
- In the original script Darren would've taken more time on Hoth. A scene was written where he was attacked by a Yeti-like creature. This scene was never filmed because it was cut. It was cut because the scene felt like a random excuse to throw some action in there and it ruined the pacing.
- In the original script Haracus wasn't present on the Redemption Tour Group, but because i have plans for him in the future of the series i decided to give him a little bit of extra screen time.
- Some of the pictures during Folus's story of the Wizard Culture are shot using artificial lighting while the show usually uses natural lighting. This is because that scene was filmed late November and the days were getting darker.
- This was Palpatine's first appearance in the Rise Universe before he became Emperor as seen in Rise of The Jedi Knight.
- If you watched closely you might have noticed this is the first episode with Ravi not wearing his Jedi robes at all.
- I just wanted to have Jar Jar in one episode and this was the perfect oppertunity.
- I don't own any Senate Guards from Lego so i just used an Imperial Guard for Palpatine's bodygaurd.
- I wanted to bring some politics in this episode.
- I was planning to show Folus's face but eventually decided against it because it wouldn't have much effect and some mystery is always welcome. 

You can find all the links to the episodes on the pages of this thread I hope you enjoy them all.

A small piece of Trivia i forgot to add:
- The Palpatine face used in this episode (Wiz-Bliz) is the same one as used in the After Credits scene of 'Maverick Marshalls' This is done on purpose because in both ROTR and Maverick Marshalls (By Maverick-Jedi-Valen) it is the same Palpatine.

Watched EP8. As always, the effects were really good and I loved the Star Trek references.

It was mainly set up but that's okay as now that gets to pay off. I'll say 8/10 for the first half.

I can't believe ROTR is almost half way over. I mean I want to see all the episodes but it'll be really sad once The Rise Universe is done for with all the epicness we've gotten from it.

This made my day

I'm having a hard time choosing a favorite between "An Engangered Escort" and "Firestorm".

Epsiodes 8 & 9 trivia:
- Episode 9 is my personal favorite episode of Season 1
- Episode 9 was the first episode to be completed in the whole series
- Both episodes pay homage to the movie "Star Trek: Into Darkness" The film that mostly inspired me to do make this series
- Zoldius will return in Season 2 in larger roles
- Although not seen or mentioned in the episode, Zoldius can use the force and wields a lightsaber (along with his large blaster)
- Due to the large crash The Redemption is still in repairs in the next episode.
- Episode 8 is the shortest episode with 99 pictures
- I always pictured Zoldius's way of speech to be similiar to Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan and Smaug.
- Approxiamently half of all the clones aboard The Redemption died during episode 9
- I wanted to shoot a small scene with the teleporter in Episode 8 but decided to cut it out to avoid similarity on the series
- Zoldius is made out of 3 minifigs: Aragorn, Zod (MOS) and Mad-Eye Moody.
- Just like in Episode 5, this episode showed that Talia is also a medic for the crew and others
- The scene where the Redemption dives towards the Xordian moon in a sea of fire and Ravi crawling towards the Engine of the ship was supposed to have a strong cincematic feel to it with the backup of emotions that i hopefully managed to sqeeuze out of my audience. It was also inspired by the aforementioned film.
- Zoldius was called Nufario since before the beginning of the show. I just changed his name before i started uploading Episode 8. I felt like Nufario didn't come over threatening and mysterious enough and it sounded pretty cheesy to me.
- Zoldius's true intention and identity will be all be revealed over time.
- Although not mentioned, it is possible that the Keels from Episodes 1 & 2 were working for Zoldius and that is why he came to retrieve the Blue Matter
- In the Artifect Storage amongst the artifects was the Map from my fourth game "The Ambush Pirates: The Secrets of The Map"
- The prisoner cells are located on the top point of the cruiser because this is most vulnerable location during a space fight
- In the original script Zoldius would give up a fake name during his stay in prison cell and reveal his real one before cutting the transmission to Ravi. This was deleted because i realised how unnecessat\ry and un-impacful it was.
- Cyborg took on the role of acting captain again in this episode. A role he has played several times before
- Ravi and Zoldius will lock sabers in Season 2. However Ravi is not the only one who will clash with this villian.

Saw episodes 7-9. All were great. Wiz-Bliz was a really cool backstory episode, and episode 9 was a good stage setter. Then Firestorm was amazing and is definitely my favorite so far.

Ep. 7 - 8.5/10
Ep. 8 - 7/10
Ep. 9 - 10/10

I'm really happy you enjoyed it

LOL, Ravi and Skelly Santas Makes it all worth the wait