I noticed that the page on the British IP has "GOUT" on the comp images. Do we need a glossary, or at least a footnote?

And you mentioned the Latest "EditDroid" release not being by the EditDroid team.  That is correct?

The Sansweet incident was told to me personally by Alexandre Philipe, the director of PVGL. The new Editdroid guy also got in contact with me, perhaps I should post that in its thread. But yeah, I was thinking of footnoting things, my aim was to make it a bit more casual than that but I guess it can never hurt if people are already wondering where certain info comes from. More pictures will be added to all pages soon.

Sansweet is actually a fairly powerful underling at Lucasfilm. He's sort of the fan ambassador. He liasons with the public and cast and crew, he's all over conventions as a Lucasfilm rep and makes public statements on behalf of the company, he's involved in home video releases to some extent it seems, he writes books, I think he has a column or something on the official website, and other stuff. He's basically the ultimate fanboy who happened to get turned in to a real Lucasfilm employee.

I'll never forget the time Sansweet stood in front of a convention audience and stated that the GOUT was the best preservation of a film he had ever seen.

Erikstormtrooper said:

I'll never forget the time Sansweet stood in front of a convention audience and stated that the GOUT was the best preservation of a film he had ever seen.

 Wow. What a fucking idiot.

It reminds me of this time...I think the show is called G4 or something? Some tech show. They had Bill Hunt from the Digital Bits and some fucking tool from TFN, I think it might be the owner of TFN, and they were there to debate the GOUT release, and he was such a fucking moron it astounded me. Bill would make very reasoned, rational arguments and then this TFN idiot would just grin stupidly and spout marketing cacthphrases that didn't even address the issues Bill raised. And I think finally at one point Bill was like, what are you saying that's not even an argument. He was saying things like "this is the best the films have ever looked" and "this is really about taking a journey back in time and enjoying the originals" or some shit. I couldn't believe it. Then I realized: these guys are really just Lucasfilm implants in the fan community. But they are for real, it's not just because it's their job, they actually have been that brainwashed to think like that. Its bloody weird!

I thoroughly approve of this. Great work Zombie. The motivation for the creation of the site (sticker book releases making news) and the poster (Baronlando) that wrote it made me lol :)

Regarding the "don't rock the boat" article, is there any chance of getting the full John Knolls quote from the Tom Shone book? Sounds interesting.

I'll have to see if I can find it in the library some time.

Moth3r, can you confirm the details of your LFL Pwnage?

New page up. Needs more images, and probably some corrections, but preview: http://savestarwars.com/filmpreservation.html

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/A-summary-of-GOUT-sourced-Custom-DVDs/topic/11517/

Great article, as usual.

Yup.

JediTrya, did you have anything specific in mind?

Yeah, most of the site is still under construction. Lotta dead links, temp photos, unfinished details. I'm working on getting the content up before I tweak that stuff.

Neat site zombie84!  I'll be following it's progress with great interest.

The "look" is great, and a site like this is desperately needed.

Having said that, I would try and solicit some help (from members of this board and others) in wordsmithing the body of material on the main page. It should be as clear, concise, and professional as possible if it is to have any impact on people who aren't already familiar with the topic. As it is, I think someone previously unfamiliar with the issue would find it rambling, uncompelling, and more than a bit confusing. It's easy to get us excited, as we already know what you're saying. But put yourself in someone else's shoes and imagine what the average person would think upon encountering the site out of curiosity. I think they would probably not hang around very long, and might leave with the wrong impression about the effort and the people who feel strongly about it.

Verbiage such as "powers that be", "fanboy delusions of entitlement", "ethically speaking belongs to society", "deliberate suppression", "the world will not accept this" may resonate powerfully with some of us on OT.com. But to most others it probably would sound a bit crazy, and could even be used as fodder along those lines. They also serve to distract, rather than educate.

It isn't easy to write material that both grabs and informs casual readers, because it has to be thorough without being lengthy, intelligent without being confusing, correct without being dry, and strong without appearing juvenile. It could take months to get it just right, but it would help the page have a lot more impact, in my opinion. Please understand I'm not trying to offend - as I am thrilled that you are putting this together. I just would like to see it become a respected and referenced source that helps get the word out, rather than being one more avenue for TFN's portrayal of us as crazy obsessives.

zombie84 said:

He's always been. The impression I get is that he's basically like one of the guys from TFN, whos world would shatter if Lucas was shown to be less than a god. Steve Sansweet has his head so far up George Lucas' ass he could probably see Rick McCallum's feet.

I know I'm a bit late but didn't we used to have a post of the week thread?

Because if it's still around (and I have looked) I'd have nominated that one.