Monroville said:
Kurgan, it's not a matter of making SW look black and white so much as the whitish TIES stand out better (as in they stand out, not STAND OUT and make your eyes bleed).
Without the video to demonstrate it, how am I going to take your word for it? Gray makes the TIE blend in with the other objects (Falcon, ISD's, gray asteroids). Are you saying he's lightening them too so they appear "white"?
Without the imposed blue tints from the 2004 edition, I would think that the blue would stand out more against the other gray objects. I don't know about you, but the color blue doesn't make my "eyes bleed." Perhaps you should get that condition looked at?
While it's evident that Adywan will need to do some tweeking on the FX other than simply recoloring the TIEs to grey or whatnot (some of those asteroid shots look a bit "modelly"), I can understand liking a bluish tint to the TIEs. Its just that those things are like Jimi Hendrix blue!
What's he going to do, put in CGI asteroids? ;)
It's funny that most people never had a problem with them being blue. In fact, before this thread came about I'd never heard anyone complain about them. Sure a few people forget if they don't watch the movies in a long time and just play the video games, but that's about it. Many of us as kids had the toys and remember that some of the TIEs were blue. As a kid I thought the old gray TIEs in SW looked less realistic (of course the 1997 tweaked versions were more detailed and cleaner looking).
So here we go:
(1) while I would like the AT-AT green lasers, red are perfectly fine too.
Why would they need to be green? They could be blue, or purple too. Those are pretty colors.
I say if you're going to change something, you don't change it just to change it, but you need a good reason to do so. The fixes that make sense are the ones that undue the "damage" done by Lucas' arbitrary changes from 1997 and 2004, or obvious SFX gaffes that weren't fixed due to budget or time constraints. The minute consistency changes that Ady has been done mostly go unnoticed, which is fine, but it's in keeping with what the SE's ought to have done (instead they haphazardly fixed some stuff and forgot to fix other stuff).
There's no point in changing the color of the lasers except you're bored or like another color better. We could change the Death Star beam to red, for example, but why?
It reminds me, way back in the day somebody posted a screenshot of changing the computer panels on the Death Star from red to blue, because they thought it looked better. That to me isn't a good enough reason to do it... not because it's somehow immoral, but I think that a classic film like this deserves a certain amount of respect, even when it's a fan edit done by somebody in their spare time for free, for laughs.
I need some sleep...
We all should. If anybody is getting upset over this, it's not worth it! I just hate to see an otherwise promising fanedit fall short because of something like this. To me it's removing information from the original version, and that's about the lowest rung of change you can make. Since the blue color wasn't a gaffe (only the uniformity of the shade, but that is like any other color that is off from shot to shot, as applies to a lot of things in these movies), I just don't agree with a change like this, and I'm sorry if that offends anyone.