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Post #1279782

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ziggyonice
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Date created
4-May-2019, 1:58 AM

I’ve worked on my own fanedit of ROTJ (“The Ziggy Edit,” which is quite a bit more ambitious than your planned changes), and so I just wanted to give you some feedback based on what I encountered with my project.

  • Adywan is including footage from 4K83 in his edit of “ROTJ: Revisited” and I would really recommend you do the same. Specifically, the Blu-Ray has an out of focus section from the first part of Endor that is pretty bad. 4K83 fixes this.

  • I’m a big fan of the “Jerjerrod’s Conflict” deleted scene, and I integrated it into my edit using audio recorded by Ian McDiarmid as the Emperor. While you obviously don’t have to use this in your project, it does add a more “human” element to the Empire that I think was missing in the OT.

  • I’ve never been a fan of Obi-Wan’s description of “a certain point of view.” Again, it’s your edit, but in mine, I integrated the found Laserdisc footage of Yoda saying to Luke, “Obi-Wan would have told you log ago, had I let him [about your father]” which makes this much better in my opinion.

Many other of your changes are in line with what I would recommend as well. Looking forward to seeing your work!