(OT.com): “We held out to the end.
But the fan editing community has lost all its hope. TROS will have no deleted scenes and is frenetically paced. The spark is out.
A nerdy silhouette lumbers in
“Hal.”
“I know what you’re going to say. We changed our avatars.”
(Hal9000): “They’re nice that way… OT.com, I’m sorry.”
“I know. I know you are. I’m just glad you’re here, at the end.”
“I came to face TROS. And I can’t save it.”
“I held out hope for so long, but I know a satisfying conclusion is gone.”
“No story is ever really concluded.”
Hands OT.com a bottle of hard apple cider
(FE.org): Hal9000.
Hal winks
Walks out onto the salty tears of disgruntled fans.
(TROS): Stop! I want every abrupt scene transition we have to optical wipe at that man.
Scenes fly by at a breakneck speed, nearly as fast as within the movie itself
(Disney): That’s enough! Do you think you got him? A puny fan editor is nothing, our goal is to punish the fan base within that mine.
… blah blah blah …
(Hal9000): Every word of what you just said was wrong. Star Wars fan edits are reborn today. The collective metaproject is just beginning. And I will not be the last SW fan editor.
Smash cut to YOU laying into place a tricky audio patch to an edit point inside a NLE