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Post #1521997

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Hal 9000
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Date created
1-Feb-2023, 2:53 PM

Oh, certainly. Again, this is the sort of minutia that makes this a diversion from normal life.

My thought on this is the finished film presents a planet in the viewscreen, after an exterior establishing shot of “hey look we made it to that planet mentioned last time you saw us.” So having Tarkin with a blank starfield wouldn’t feel right unless you removed it from the exterior shot too. Which could work, but would be a level of divergence I don’t want to bring to bear on “Star Wars (1977)”. (See prior pushback to me considering deleting the line about Ben never owning a droid!)