From what I can tell it was only the SSD. Everything seems to be running great. Now I have more storage, and I got a free Windows upgrade to boot.
Awesome. If all goes smoothly, we’ll be seeing V3 within a couple months tops. Brilliant! 🤩
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We’ll see. It’ll be a lot of work to adjust all the streams that need to sync up, including all subtitles and foreign language tracks. Also, I don’t know when the Rey Nobody version will be ready to go, so may as well not hurry just in case anything develops there that would be good to include.
Hoping that V3 can be the final version, for all the labor involved with a release.
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Hal 9000 said:
And I wonder if we can do any better of a line for Poe about the Final Order fleet than “Each ship has been modified with dreadnaught-tier laser cannons.” I think if it had been in the theatrical I’d have rolled my eyes real hard. Perhaps something like, “Our forces (or The Republic’s forces) are completely inferior,” or “We couldn’t hope to challenge them.”
I completely agree it can sound like overly expository dialogue. I do think however that the cannons need to be explicitly referenced in some measure to set up why they’re important to destroy in the final act. If not referenced, then I think it might be necessary to reinstate the destruction of Kijimi scene plus its aftermath, to set up the importance of the cannons (which I would be cool with, although I know a lot of people don’t like it).
On another unrelated note, I had a thought about the dessert chase scene when Rey, Finn and Poe split up right after the cut of “They fly now!”. I think it might be useful to add an AI line of Rey screaming “Split up!” or something to that effect since right now they do so without any verbal communication. It works as it is, but I think it might be further reinforced by Rey telling them.
Yeah, that’s a good reminder about the cannons, that’s right. That’s probably just an awkward line that’ll need to stay. It’s still better than “omg there are 47,000 Death Stars now.”
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It could potentially be changed to something about heavily modified weaponry. But yeah the cannons themselves do play a big role at the end and they would come out of absolutely nowhere if not directly mentioned here.
Yeah I forgot about that when I made that post. Mentioning the cannons is too important, awkward or not.
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“Each ship has been modified with dreadnaught-tier laser cannons”
Maybe this?
“Their fleet could annihilate us with their superlaser cannons”
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“Each ship has been modified with dreadnaught-tier laser cannons”
Maybe this?
“Their fleet could annihilate us with their superlaser cannons”
That could work.
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“Their fleet could annihilate us with their superlaser cannons”
I like this quite a bit. May I suggest replacing “us” with “any opposition” just to make it clear that they’re a threat to every world in the galaxy and not just to Ajan Kloss or the Resistance.
So something like “Their fleet could annihilate any opposition with their superlaser cannons”
"Their fleet’s superlaser cannons could annihilate any world that resists.”
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Isn’t the term “superlaser” reserved for the planet-busting Death Star beam that you’re trying to distance this from?
I wouldn’t want to imply that a single destroyer could destroy a whole planet. I like the (unspoken) idea that they might be able to do so as an entire fleet.
“It’d take a thousand ships with more firepower than I’ve ever—-“
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I wouldn’t want to imply that a single destroyer could destroy a whole planet. I like the (unspoken) idea that they might be able to do so as an entire fleet.
Maybe something like this:
"Their fleet’s superlaser cannons leave us massively outgunned.”
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I think an audience would assume “superlaser” refers to Death Star-level firepower.
I honestly kind of liked the idea of connecting the laser cannons to the dreadnought we saw in TLJ, but I did feel like “dreadnought-tier” was a bit of a mouthful. You could just call them “dreadnought cannons”. It separates it from Death Star levels of destruction, but keeps the description simple while still connecting it with pre-established technology.
So, you could do something like DZ’s suggestion, but like this:
”Their fleet’s dreadnought cannons leave us massively outgunned”
I think an audience would assume “superlaser” refers to Death Star-level firepower.
I honestly kind of liked the idea of connecting the laser cannons to the dreadnought we saw in TLJ, but I did feel like “dreadnought-tier” was a bit of a mouthful. You could just call them “dreadnought cannons”. It separates it from Death Star levels of destruction, but keeps the description simple while still connecting it with pre-established technology.
So, you could do something like DZ’s suggestion, but like this:
”Their fleet’s dreadnought cannons leave us massively outgunned”
Fantastic choice! 👏
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That’s a good way to phrase it, RL. I’d keep it in context as “his fleet” probably, though.
“His followers have been hiding something for years. A stockpiled fleet of Star Destroyers from the old war (or whatever that line is exactly). He calls it The Final Order. The fleet’s dreadnaughts cannons leave us massively outgunned.”
That or maybe “that big ass fleet.”
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“His followers have been building something for years. A fleet of upgraded Star Destroyers from the old war. He calls it the Final Order. Each one has a dreadnought cannon capable of subjugating a planet.”
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I like that, Nev. Keeps it close to the pacing of the original line, but uses a key word that I think is important: upgraded. They’re old Star Destroyers that we’re spirited away after the war, but they have slowly been modified over the years/decades.
I like Nev’s a lot. What would I need to regenerate in order to get that delivery? All of it?
“His followers have been building something for years. A fleet of upgraded Star Destroyers from the old war. He calls it the Final Order. Each one has a dreadnought cannon capable of subjugating a planet.”
Beautifully written, Nev. It makes perfect sense in the context of the story, and as per Rogue’s incentive, it maintains a sense of pace like the original line.
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I like Nev’s a lot. What would I need to regenerate in order to get that delivery? All of it?
If you can. It’s much better to just have all his lines come from the AI even if some are the same.
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Any chance you can fix the “No spy?” “No, spy!” exchange, because that is some cringey Whedonspeak.
I don’t see how, since it takes place during a long, single shot that takes us through the scene and bridges things you can’t really remove.
That’s just Poe ‘Big Ass Door’ Dameron for you.
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I think adding a line to Jannah implying that Finn was a known figure amongst the stormtroopers and was at least partly why they were inspired to rebel would be a nice way to suggest the stormtrooper rebellion plotline. Having Jannah know who Finn is makes her more willing to trust him and have him lead the squad into battle later. Something like:
FINN: I never knew there were more.
JANNAH: Deserters. We all heard your story.
Not sure if there’s enough material from Jannah to get a good reading, though.