Hal 9000

There are nips and tucks about the sequence; it was not just plugged in as a whole. A few Jar Jar moments are trimmed throughout. He leads them underwater, gets arrested immediately, talks with Boss Nass but without explicit mention of the planet core, and they leave with Jar Jar. We get a trimmed version of the first bongo sequence, then cut to Theed being invaded and the Jedi surfacing. We cut the scene where the Viceroy discusses the treaty while they walk down the stairs.

And if it’s any consolation, this ‘Max’ version of the movie dispenses with the scene where Jar Jar talks to Padme while she is cleaning R2. Because it isn’t needed in the same way it is for COD.

Thanks, glad you like it! And yeah, I obviously also prefer it without Otah Gunga. If the splice job will help friends get over the hump of accepting the title change, sounds like a win.

I am beginning to gear up for updating the ‘Rey Nobody’ version to reflect changes made since V2. I’d like to compile which bits and pieces will differ from the main version in order to gather any feedback and perhaps capture creativity from others that I may not know about before splicing it all together.

Components for a ‘Rey Nobody’ alternate version:

• Move the ‘Force essence trasfer’ threat back to where it originally came from, directed from Palpatine to Rey in the climax on Exegol (easy enough; fine)
• Remove dialogue about Rey’s mysterious identify in the opening Exegol sequence (easy enough; fine)
• Rey’s parents are removed from her vision while training, replaced with hints at her fear of inner darkness as established in TFA and TLJ (easy enough; fine)
• Removed dialogue that establishes Rey has familiarity with Ochi’s ship (easy enough; fine)
• When Rey lashes out with Force lightning, it is now yellow both to distance herself from Palpatine (in movie parlance; I realize we’ve seen Count Dooku use it as well) and to tie into embracing what she feared as illustrated by her yellow lightsaber at the end of the film (easy enough; fine)
• Restructured and switched up dialogue throughout the duel between Rey and Kylo Ren on board the Star Destroyer, moving a few lines from an earlier scene (what Spence provided works fine, but the scene doesn’t have any heavy hits and merely bridges to the scene in the hangar)
• Restructured and switched up dialogue during the hangar scene to remove Rey as a Palpatine and replace it with fear that she will take the Sith throne (what Spence provided here works fine, hinging on Rey being fearful about placing herself on the Sith throne)
• Removed Rey reflecting on the deaths of her parents (what Spence provided here works fine, but the scene seems to put Rey in a headspace of leaning into what she fears as an act of defiance)
• Restructured the scenes surrounding the Ach-To sequence to work around the lack of a dramatic punch about Rey and Exegol (this works fine, but loses a little bit of punch since there’s no reveal)
• Removed dialogue about Rey being a Palpatine from her conversation with Luke (easy enough; fine)
• Removed various snippets of dialogue from Palpatine during the fim’s climax that relate to their shared lineage (easy enough; fine)

So, am I missing anything?

I ended with half a day of unexpected downtime, so I got almost everything done for the Max version. The large 1080p version is up now, and the smaller versions will be coming likely tomorrow. OP has been updated with changelog.

That was reinstated at some point earlier, not for V9. I don’t recall exactly.

And yes, the midchlorian explanation is there for the Max version. If midichlorians are to be included, they’ve got to be established as symbionts in order to dovetail with the Gungan-Naboo aspect to form a theme.

Forgot to mention it, but yes!

COD changes for V9:

• Better DVD deleted scene upscaling from Phase3
• Tightened up moment of removed battle droid dialogue when the Jedi first light up their sabers
• Removed ‘Force Speed’
• Replaced existing AI lines for 3PO, and added one for Anakin when we arrive at his home

TPM ‘Max’ differences:

• Use crawl with original TPM title
• Reinstate the trip underwater to Otah Gungah and a few scenes that come with it
• Reinstate R2 kicking Jar Jar
• Remove Jar Jar and Padme cleaning R2 scene (because it’s not needed in this presentation)
• Reinstate Anakin being stated to be too old to be trained
• Midichlorians (exposition, blood test, Qui-Gon in council)

COD V9 is going up right now! I’ll work on the ‘Max’ version to get that done soon as well.

I’ll take a look at that and for the eventual update either change the line or the changelog.

Who knows? Maybe he’ll dig up Leia’s blue saber and forge a helmet from the original puppet show props. If that happens it’d be easy to swap out the shot.

I guess we’re all pretty much done with complaining about undoing obvious narrative points about characters dying?

It’s not a bad idea, except that I’ve already got the V9 update finished and have been encoding the mp4 versions.

I think the AI lines for COD/TPM are gonna be pretty darn seamless, so a big thank you to Jar Jar Bricks for providing those.

I was able to use the ‘Ultimate Edition’ TPM soundtrack (thank God) to rebuild the audio when Anakin introduces C-3PO along with some blanket foley sounds. I may use one other line if it sounds as good in context as I hope it will. And 3PO’s lines to R2 right before the podrace sequence that are already AI-generated in the current version will be updated to sound quite a bit better. I don’t think any viewer would suspect a thing. Net effect: 3PO is clearly depicted as having a nebulous backstory prior to Anakin finding and repairing him. And I think that’s pretty cool.

I was able to do a little bit of work on this tonight. I have a few AI Anakin lines to help with our 3PO retcon, but the setting of the Skywalker hovel does not at all lend itself to dialogue replacement.

The lines to mute would be, “Isn’t he great? He’s not finished yet.”
The replacement lines would be, “I’m fixing him up. He’s way better now!”

Not essential, as it works fine to simply skip over those lines.

Courtesy of Jar Jar Bricks, of course.

Edit: Disregard; came back later and absolutely nailed it.

Trim a frame or two’s worth of audio to modify the line:

“He was the best starpilot in the galaxy, and a cunning warrior. Ani was a good friend.”

Haven’t fully decided about that!

I don’t know, but I agree with you. I may just proceed with an update, as it would be pretty straightforward to plug in the source once I get it from TMWNN with the project all ready to go otherwise.

Master Lawdog said:

The volume level on Threepio’s new line sounds too low. It came off as quiet on playback.

It sounds to me about the same level as the surrounding dialogue on either side and as the original line.

The updated version of LOE are now available.

Three versions: LOE proper, and two alternate or ‘max’ versions. One in which the original ending is included in which Padme dies, and one in which she still lives.

AI can do a lot these days.

Vader’s saber shorts out halfway through the ESB duel so he has to start and use a chainsaw to cut Luke’s hand off. Blood fountain ensues.

Redub Dexter Jettster in an alien language and establish that he has a droid brain. When Obi-Wan visits the library, the librarian suggests he can’t find what he’s looking for because it was likely an AI hallucination.

3 shouldn’t be long!

1 may be; waiting on TMWNN’s color corrected version.

It almost certainly will be revisited, so I won’t worry about it for now, but thanks for highlighting it.

Just wanted to reiterate my enjoyment of and appreciation for this project.

I just finished my Andorpalooza which began with season one in January leading one episode per week into the launch of season two, which I chose to watch one episode per week as originally scheduled, and into this project.

Just about every episode, including these three, left me with a dumb grin on my face. The whole thing is stupefyingly good, and this is a seamless capper.

I think he means that shot is unusable, not the 19SE entirely.

Too bad about the bad CG model for the R2 unit closest to camera. Looks like a stand-in.