dark_jedi said:
Stinky-Dinkins said:
Whoa whoa whoa, stop the clock.
You're getting awfully defensive about this.
Calling it a fan edit is kind of silly. It's a matter of semantics, so on some level one could consider this technically a fan edit since it's not working from a single dedicated source, but the fact is when someone refers to a "fan edit" it carries a definite connotation. It sort of implies that someone has taken something and purposefully altered it so it doesn't resemble the original presentation but rather reflects their own specific vision. Harmy is doing the opposite here, trying to recreate the theatrical presentation as faithfully as he can manage. Semantics aside, a project with that singular purpose isn't the kind that springs to mind when talking about fan edits... for me at least.
Then again, the exact descriptor attached to the project doesn't really matter to me in my book. It's the project itself, and its goal - that's what matters.
And that is exactly what he is doing, he is altering the 2004 SE HD broadcast to reflect the his own specific vision of the untouched original trilogy, which in my opinion and obviously a few others, will never be 100%, and then you call me silly for thinking this is a fan edit, and then you go and prove my damn point, so Thank you very much for doing that sir, you the man!
He's not altering it to reflect his specific vision, he's altering it to reflect how it originally appeared in theaters as much as he possibly can while maintaining the visual fidelity of the source. It's the source he's working with that deviates from the original, he's trying to remedy that. He's not taking a source that mirrors the original and editing it based on a whim.... which is kind of what people expect when talking about fan edits.
If you want to wrestle me I'll wrestle you, I'll wrestle the bejesus out of you. I'm already naked. Let's do this.