Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 630

lightkiller100 said:

Hey guys, I wanted to share some posters I made for the DEs. I got suggested to post them here for more exposure.

https://imgur.com/MIBsZHU

https://imgur.com/Ce7o17T

https://imgur.com/5HDwOZG

They look great.

How much longer until the next versions of the Despecialized Trilogy are finished?

Has asking questions like that EVER had good results for you?

Possessed said:

Has asking questions like that EVER had good results for you?

I don’t know. I was just curious.

Thanks.

Editroid said:

Possessed said:

Has asking questions like that EVER had good results for you?

I don’t know. I was just curious.

Ha!

TV’s Frink said:

Ha!

Lol.

Ok where do I download these at?

solkap said:

towne32 said:

There is not a version 2.7 for either V or VI. It is unlikely that there will be.

Speaking of versions, that reminds me of a few questions I’ve been meaning to ask about the DEED Project as a whole.

I remember that ROTJ 2.5 dropped on 2/7/16. But I was still pretty new to this site at the time, and hadn’t been around for the initial release of 1.0, or any of the versions of the other films for that matter.

Were the all iterations of the DEEDs prior to that point as follows?:

SW 1.0
SW 2.0
SW 2.5

ESB 1.0
ESB 2.0

ROTJ 1.0

And if so, out of curiosity about the past DEED project timeline, what were the dates Harmy initially posted each of those?

Read the Ultimate Introductory Guide, linked in the first post of this thread.

solkap said:
Each subsequent release is just a more highly polished edition of the films.

And boy are we a community that loves it when someone constantly tinkers with our favorite films… * irony *

solkap said:

This time I must disagree with ChainsawAsh.

He is correct if you are looking for SW 2.5 or 2.7, ESB 2.0, or ROTJ 2.5.

But anything earlier than that probably won’t be very easy to find. I wouldn’t worry about it though.

About the only reason you’d want to find earlier versions is for comparison purposes. Each subsequent release is just a more highly polished edition of the films.

Oh, my bad, I misread. I thought he was looking for 2.7/2.0/2.5, not earlier versions.

I do think, however there is a big difference between polishing and tinkering or changing. Polishing a classic car with an original paint job seems to me akin to what Harmy is doing. What George Lucas has done would be more akin stripping parts of the original paint to add new designs, destroying the original in the process. But the contradiction is striking, isn’t it?

Not a contradiction, but a contrast. The “Special Editions” are on the spectrum of giving the fans the middle finger while the Despecalised are a resurrection and restoration of the true versions of Star Wars.

Yeah, it isn’t really an apt comparison or ironic at all. The tinkering is getting rid of poorer quality elements that “we” (Harmy, the community, etc) introduced in trying to emulate the original.

Ironic would be… I don’t know, trying to conform 2.7 into Harmy’s original partly despecialized release out of nostalgia?

Whether it is a perfect example of irony or not, I at least meant to present it ironically in the context of those sentences. Though when looked at with more scrutiny, it could be funny to think of Harmy’s work as the reverse of the Special Edition process, and not in a high level, obvious, Despecialized mission statement sort of way, I mean how the SE’s got worse all the time with each release, Harmy’s gets better all the time with each release… Partly Despecialized lining up (not chronologically, obviously) as being Harmy’s answer to the Blu-ray tweaks, 1.0 being an answer to DVD tweaks, 2.5 a response to '97 theatrical tweaks (and 2.1 for the title tweak, dropping SE from later VHS covers, officially supplanting SW with the SE)… 2.7 being an answer to the '81 crawl tweak… 3.0 finally meeting up harmoniously (Harmyoniously?) with the original theatrical release.