HardCorr said:

http://digital-fanedits.com/index.php/Forum/General-Fanedit-Discussion/217-Benja-the-Glory-Hole/

Thanks for the link...what an insane thread.

We dug this out of our vaults as reminder of the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the fanedit community.
I know of a few of these style edits going down since the Reborn project was dropped. This was a edit I was seriously anticipating as I know many others were as well.

I will admit, I had a cut completed and in the can, ready for the test audience which consisted of my wife and dog....Then I came across Anti-matter's Prologue, and fell in love with his vision like a frog loves Skittles. (You don't know; frogs may love Skittles. DON'T JUDGE ME!) This revelation caused me to completely rethink my edit.

So, let this be my proclamation/announcement/village idiot stutter, that I hearby restart my Star Wars: Redemption edit.

As it says above this will be a trilogy. ANH, ESB, and ROTJ will pretty much stay intact with the prequels serving as flashbacks as usual. It's just that I will be using the flashbacks in ALMOST the same order as Anti is using them in his Prologue edit. I think it's a great concept that will add so much more to this edit.

Oh, and as for the '09 date. Well, you guys know how that goes. I will do my best to get this done ASAP. I MAY use Anti's Prologue as a source for prequels as his will be JarJar free, and I do NOT have the patience or the anti-despressants to make it through that ordeal. May angels dance on your belly for that task, Anti. If I go this route, then I will be playing the waiting game for the edit to release. But my anticipation to begin is very high, so we'll see how long I can wait.....Doh, it's gone. I might be starting tonight.

-Benja (December 23, 2008)

I'll let Benja talk about this if he wants, except for one thing. This was posted by "site admin," which I think is either Antimatter or Logan-5. Either way, it's funny that they brought this up again, unprovoked, but we are the ones who are obsessed.

Logan-5 said:

What about his gimp partner? I think TVs Frink latest antics are funny for us because he keeps getting owned but doesn't realize it. He and his cohorts have hijacked AM's thread, pretending to be watching and critiquing the movie. The only problem is, they are not. Check out his claim about the droid analysis lab. I know for a fact, because I HAVE WATCHED THE MOVIE MANY TIMES, that in AM's edit the computer speaks "KAMINO" in ENGLISH. I thought it was the most clever and important technical edit in that short scene. TVs Frink denies this fact, thus revealing his deception to everyone, but NO ONE in that discussion calls him out on the error. They just fall right in line.

Of course, now that I have called him out, expect to see some damage control as he tries to minimize his embarrassment. Insert excuse here:

And Antimatter said:

Yep. The computer analysis is able to link the weapon to Kamino, but not to any person, so at the end of the scan, there is both a computer-generated voice and a visual display. By the way, if you were watching with the sound down, you would still see that in the subtitles

I talked about this in the Fanedit forum thread, but the short version is that I'm watching the .avi and there is no computer voice saying "Kamino," the display is in Aurebesh not English, and as far as I can tell there is no subtitle. My guess is that Antimatter realized the problem (or maybe someone pointed it out) and he fixed it for the DVD. But the idea that I haven't been watching this at all, and am just making things up to make him look bad...is mind-blowing.

Oh, it's also worth noting that Antimatter's current avatar is a naked women. Stay classy.

Antimatter said:

Mr. Rat Fink is getting tripped up at the last step, I'm sure. If the Prologue fanedit were really that bad, even I wouldn't be able to watch it. The curious problem is that Star Wars fans watch prequel "edits" wanting to re-live the prequel films. I don't see this problem to the same degree in the Star Trek community. Trek fans are a bit better at temporarily distancing themselves from the original movies and episodes when trying to enjoy a fanedit.

I'm not exactly sure how "I like it so it can't be bad" is a defense. As for the rest...uh, what?

Anders said:

The ot.com website has never been associated with very bright people, and it all begins with their moderators. That MOther fellow is an obvious moron. The reason Anti-Matter's defunct Prologue thread was re-opened is so people like Frink and Benja can play there. He says that he's unlocking the thread because this website shows that the fanedit is now finished. Huh? Anti-Matter finished and released the Prologue in 2009.

Moth3r can give his reason for opening the thread, but I'm pretty sure it was to allow legitimate discussion of the edit (with none of the drama, which goes here instead). And I would guess the timing was due to me making this thread - I'll bet Moth3r forgot the edit was even released, or maybe thought no one here cared.

Anders said:

I have seen Frink's trailer and he isn't one to be trashing fanedits. The whole "ridiculous" theme is a convenient safeguard against future criticism.

This is so dumb. I can't wait to see how they trash my edit once it is out.