Sluggo said:
Crygor64 said:
This forum has roughly 60,000 posts. 30,000 of those posts are in two topics related to Adywan's "Extra Special Editions." If George has seen this is must make him laugh.
Aside from the massive amounts of hyperbole and extremism, I generally think Cygor is right.
I too empathize with Crygor64's stance. I'm generally not interested in the fanedit stuff, and am mainly here for the preservation effort. Probably 90% of my posts are in the preservation section. And although I understand the difference between someone who does fanedits AND wants the originals restored, versus someone who wants to replace the originals with a fanedit, I do get a little annoyed by posters who think that our purpose is to make the "best" Star Wars, rather than rescuing the original versions of the movies. There seem to have been a glut of stuff appearing lately that has that ring to it, and it makes it harder to get the word out.
Crygor's claim is simply that our forum would make it look to a newcomer that we are mainly a fanedit site (heck, the "fanedit" section comes before the "preservation" section!!), and on that I'd have to agree with him. The recent CNN article is a perfect example of someone misconstruing the whole issue, and Crygor is arguing that we are inadvertently contributing to it. There is no reason to get mad at him - as acerbic as he is, I think he is trying to help.
That said, I think that the reason there is so much more discussion about fanedits than about preservation, is because frankly there is little that we can substantively DO to preserve the original films. We have very little high quality raw materials to work with. DarkJedi has squeezed about as much out of the GOUT as there is to squeeze, doing 16mm telecines is never going to be more than a curiosity, and we haven't yet obtained the resources to do a 35mm telecine. So we wait, nibble away at what we can, and some of the folks pass the time by doing fanedits because it's fun. Perhaps if the fanedits thread wasn't higher on the topics list than the preservation thread, it wouldn't look like that was our primary purpose.