I feel like I joined this forum at the vest time. Loving all the input and how the group process is working. It keeps it so fresh.
TFA:R was fun, too. Especially working to finish it in time for a pre-TLJ premiere viewing.
The gist: no one steps up to execute the common idea of moving SKB’s firing to the third act, so I reluctantly try. I succeed in part, but it doesn’t totally work, and I feel dissatisfied with it being something that really wants to work, but doesn’t really.
Then, in early 2017, NeverArGreat and Sir Ridley (in particular, there were others like Jackpumpkinhead) swoop in from nowhere and do a ton of FX work. With new doors open, we all have a process going with an eye on December 2017. We largely succeed, though put out a more polished version a month or two later.
I put out a V3 (and then a mostly technical issue-correcting but also Palptine-tweaking V4) with a few more changes that are broadly welcomed, deciding not to restrain myself like I had, given that 8 and 9 would receive Hal9000 edits after all. (I had naively hoped the ST wouldn’t need fan edits, so TFA was treated minimally invasively.)
I recently watched your tfa restructured on the drive, it was a very smart idea to move the skb firing to the third act it gives so much more impact on the characters that way with the one two punch of hans death and the destruction of the Hosnian system. I watched with the commentary track because I’ve seen tfa too many times lately and it was nice hearing your explanation of the changes made, and funny because at one point you say that episode 9 hopefully doesn’t need a fan edit