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Post #222438

Author
Slumberland
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Episode I: PaulisDead2221's Edit (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
27-Jun-2006, 1:16 PM
Wookieewok, I'd love to say that I made it subtle (in the crawl, the line is "Dark Forces threaten to cast the galaxy into turmoil"), but I titled my episode 1 edit "Return of the Sith"... so, not that subtle, I'm afraid. I just took a look at the whole movie, and aside from Anakin's emergence, that seemed to be the most succinct summation of what occurs in episode 1. The sith come back after an extended absence. I appreciate the idea of letting the audience figure out the source of the emerging darkness, but I went for the obvious, pulpy title, a la ESB.

I don't want to hijack Paulisdead's thread, as I'll probably start by own in the next month once I have burned copies to share (if anyone cares), but my titles are as such:

1. Return of the Sith
2. The Gathering Storm
3. Fall of the Republic
4. A New Hope
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Revenge of the Jedi

I liked that using 'return' for episode 1 freed me up for 'revenge' in episode 6. I know it's established that revenge is un-Jedi-like, but at least we've witnessed everything for which the Jedi would be avenging. I'm sure the Sith's revenge was justified, but it's all murky off-camera history as far as I'm concerned. Not that I don't have love for murky, off-camera history. Fall of the Republic seemed like a nice nod to one of the grandaddies of SW fan efforts. And 'Gathering Storm' is very close to what Hal9000 came up with... which I think is great. Amazing how different minds will arrive at similar conclusions.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Paulisdead, do you hear Liam Neeson's voice in the ship in your opening? If so, does that complicate things?