I just watched the original TFA with my 60-year old father (because I haven’t made Finnish subtitles for Restructured yet). After the movie I showed him why this edit was made. He agreed that we will be watching Restructured from now on because it seems to make a bit more sense, haha! I also pointed out to him that Leia ignores Chewie when they return from SKB and he got a little pissed after realizing it (read: cannot unsee). 😄
Awesome. And, again, my hope for this project is to preserve the experience of TFA as much as possible while making this single (or two or three) alterations. I will join you in hating that, though!
And if you end up doing Finnish subtitles, let me know and I’d be happy to include them for V2.1.
My only quirks with it that I felt could use a couple changes…
Some of the dialogue is a little quiet with the new music additions. Specifically, I only found two places this was the case:
- When Han says, “Where’d you get that?” in Maz’s castle when she hands out the lightsaber.
- In the new Snoke scene after Han’s death when he says, “Prepare the weapon.”
Maybe just duck the music down slightly? Other than that, I think this seemed great.
I think for the Maz scene it would have let the original music be audible. (I got the audio fully baked from Ridley, but I assumed that was the reason so I did not ask.)
I also got the Snoke audio from Ridley fully prepared, but I believe it would be too jarring to fade the audio in after that point rather than when it begins.
NeverarGreat, I will take a listen to the R2 scene at the end.