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Post #1619392

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MiDKnighT
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Which Edits Best Fit My Head Canon? (There are so many to pick from)
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11-Dec-2024, 11:04 AM

Hello All,

I’ve dabbled a little with Spence and Hal’s edits and read about some of the other edits. Just wanted to get opinions on who has the edits that best match my head canon:

TPM:

  • Overall good pacing (I know Spence is great at this)
  • Great video and sound (Hal and Spence’s edits are both good here)
  • Love the idea of Jar Jar (and potentially others) speaking an alien language with subtitles. It’s kinda the only way to have an adult version of TPM. Which edits subtitled Jar Jar?
    – YES - Anti-Cheese
    – YES - Phase3
    – NO - Hal 9000
    – NO - Spence
    – NO - Theatrical
  • I’m ok with Gungan city being there minus some Jar Jar antics or Boss Nass spitting everywhere. It’s a beautiful scene visually. I think Spence did this pretty well. Gungan City?
    – YES - Theatrical
    – YES - Spence
    – NOT SURE - Phase3
    – NO - Hal 9000
    – NO - Possessed
    – NO - octoroxx
    – NO - Anti-Cheese
  • Less Jar Jar and Anakin childish antics or bad acting. Comparisons (mostly from descriptions) - LESS to MORE:
    – Anti-Cheese
    – Phase 3
    – octoroxx
    – Hal 9000
    – Spence
    – Theatrical

AOTC:

  • Overall good pacing (I know Spence is great at this)
  • Great video and sound (Hal and Spence’s edits are both good here)
  • Less whiny / creepy Anakin
  • More believable Anakin / Padme love story as well as more believable fall of Anakin.
    – I think most edits try to do this?
  • Yoda unleashed - only because there was so much anticipating to see Yoda fight when AOTC came out. This isn’t a deal breaker just a slight preference - most edits don’t leave this in. Who left it in?
    – YES - Theatrical
    – YES - Anti-Cheese
    – YES (I think) - DsqrDStudio
    – FORCE ONLY - Hal 9000
    – NO - Spence
    – Seems a few other edits removed this too.

ROTS:

  • Overall good pacing (I know Spence is great at this)
  • Great video and sound (Hal and Spence’s edits are both good here)
  • Yoda unleashed - leave the Yoda fight. There was so much anticipation to see Yoda vs Sidious. Without it I think something would be missing although the scene could be cleaned up a little to remove a little cheese - most edits don’t leave this in. Yoda unleashed?
    – YES - Theatrical
    – YES - Anti-Cheese
    – YES (I think) - DsqrDStudio
    – SOME - octoroxx
    – A LITTLE (clone troopers outside Jedi Council) - Spence
    – NO - Hal 9000
    – NO - DominicCobb
  • Less cheese in Anakin / Obi-Wan duel - Hal and Spence both did great with this! Cheese level:
    – NONE - Spence
    – NONE - Hal 9000
    – SOME - Anti-Cheese - Spence and Hal’s edits have less cheese in this duel than the Anti-Cheese!
    – LOTS - Theatrical
  • Padme living like in Hal’s version is great. At least not losing the will to live ugh. Padme…
    – LIVES - Hal 9000
    – DIES (but not from losing the will to live) - Every other editor I hope.
    – DIES - LOST WILL TO LIVE - Theatrical

ANH:

  • I think Adywan’s edit satisfies my wishes - just want and HD version. I think @octorox has an upscaled version? Me want!

ESB:

  • Adywan has all that I need here. I think @octorox added some minor prequel tie ins to this. Would love to see that.

ROTJ:

  • Eagerly awaiting Adywan’s version but I would be open to some more substantial edits to ROTJ like…
  • Better pacing
  • Less Jabba muppet show and Ewok silliness.
  • Absolutely no “Jedi Rocks” Ugh!
  • Force ghost can be either aged Hayden or Shaw

TFA:

  • Better pacing
  • More continuity between movies (one of the biggest flaws with the ST)
  • Great video and sound
  • Make Rey not immediately Godlike powerful with zero training (another common criticism of the ST).
  • Hate the idea of Starkiller Base but nothing we can do about that…

TLJ:

  • Better pacing
  • More continuity between movies (one of the biggest flaws with the ST)
  • Great video and sound
  • Fix Luke’s character. He is nothing like OT Luke in TLJ. Maybe an edit that pushes him a little more in that direction.
  • Remove cheesy unnecessary scenes. (Canto Byte or however you spell it)

TROS:

  • Better pacing
  • More continuity between movies (one of the biggest flaws with the ST)
  • Great video and sound
  • Less cheese! Like horse like creatures trotting around on top of a star destroyer or even hundreds of star destroyers coming out of nowhere.
  • I hate that Palpatine is back but I guess there’s nothing an edit can do about that. I like Lioz’s edit of having Anakin take out Palpatine once and for all - he is the chosen one after all right? And he’s the guy that already did it in ROTJ.

Anybody know the perfect edits for my head canon? 😃

I’ll edit this as I think of other items on my wish list.