The voting results are in!!!
The ‘Y/N’ and ‘select one answer’ questions were easy to interpret, as it was only necessary to pick the most popular item. But the multiple selection questions were trickier, particularly since they weren’t even all the same in nature. For instance, most people might want some sort of change, but the biggest single item was a vote for no such change. And every single item might end up with less than half the voters voting for it. How do we determine what is used? As a general rule, this was my strategy: a vote for no change at all must have at least half the voters select it (12 out of 23). If the no change vote doesn’t make it, then I look at the most popular items and include the top items until we get over the magic number of 12. For instance, if 5 people voted for one change in a category, 5 in another, 3 in another, and 1 in another, I would include the two 5 votes and the 3 vote, but exclude the 1 vote. All items of 12 or more are automatic winners.
1. - Jaitea
2. - Aalenfae
3. - Mrebo
4. - jonathan7
5. - GoodMusician
6. - Ronster
7. - timdiggerm
8. - MrInsaneA
9. - ShepardCommander
10. - DominicCobb
11. - Johannus
12. - Angel
13. - fishmanlee
14. - JLB_Tosche
15. - Captain Antilles
16. - emanswfan
17. - SS4DarthPayne
18. - Wexter
19. - xhonzi
20. - Vladius
21. - Bingowings
22. - daneditor
23. - darth_ender
1. All voters are listed above (in reverse order of when they voted)
2. Select one answer. There was a tie between Return of the Jedi: The Collaborative Edit and choosing a name at a later point. For now we will keep it as Return of the Jedi: The Collaborative Edit unless something better comes up.
3. Y/N. Most people did want to make further alterations to the script, but I’m not sure if the question was clear given the nature of the following votes.
4. Y/N. Most did not want the TIE bombers to bomb the Ewoks and start a forest fire.
5. Multiple selection. First example of the difficulty of interpreting multiple selections. 9 people wanted no Eclipse, and that was the single most popularly-voted item. But that means that 14 people did want to see the Eclipse, but didn’t agree on the best way to show it. Therefore I don’t feel justified in not showing it. With 7 votes, we will show the Eclipse escorted by Imperial Star Destroyers which remain while the Eclipse leaves. Next most popular was having the Eclipse leave Coruscant, so we will be showing both. Since that was 6 votes, the total is now 13, and the rest I don’t feel were popular enough to keep (or conflicted, i.e. showing the Eclipse arriving alone at the Death Star).
6. Multiple selection. This was tricky because people voted to use Ronster’s sandstorm, but I’m not sure if everyone understood that it was Ronster’s sandstorm scenario; I think most figured we were referring to the ordinary deleted sandstorm scene, which is already included. I’m not sure how to handle this one due to the confusion, but since all items were at least fairly popular, I will see if there is some way I can include something while maintaining the pace of the movie as we’ve already had it go.
7. Multiple selection. Tied with 13 votes, both minimizing Salacious Crumb’s behavior and replacing Lapti Nek with a grungier song one the vote. Others came close and may get incorporated (specifically making Jabba’s palace darker), but they did not truly win, so I’m not guaranteeing anything.
8. Multiple selection. This one was easy as 17 people voted for no removal of siblings and no Han death.
9. Multiple selection. A large majority voted for no probe droid or showing of Imperial forces turning on each other.
10. Multiple selection. The only winner in the Sarlacc execution scene is having 3PO and R2 fall directly onto the skiff.
11. Select one. Sad but true, 13 people voted for no reference to Bothans. I take this to mean removing all references made by Mon Mothma (might be a little tricky), or also just leaving it as vague references (which I should have made as a separate voting item, but whatever). So we will not be filming any Bothan material.
12. Select one. 15 people voted for no other type of alternate opening either. Thus, the opening as in the most recent script is what we will keep, with no additional scenes.
13. Y/N. People voted for no Duel of the Fates. I voted yes on this, so I’m a bit sad, but that’s what we’ll do.
14. Select one. Again, people were all over the place with what to do with Boba Fett. But the winner (and with only 6 votes) is making the slight change to have Han deliberately hit Fett’s jetpack. Unless I can figure out some cool way to incorporate Fett on Endor in a showdown with Han (also popular with 4 votes, even with no suggested means on how to accomplish this), I guess we’ll just keep it simple. I forgot to include an option of removing him altogether, but in the past we voted to keep him anyway.
15. Select one. I should have set this one up differently to make it clearer what people wanted as well. It should have been a multiple selection and/or possibly split into two questions to determine the actor and whether Anakin’s ghost should be at the fire or the threesome. But again in a close vote people voted for Anakin to be present at the funeral pyre, and for Sebastian Shaw to be the actor.
16. Select one. Barely winning is the vote to keep it as in the current script, just coming out above Johannus’s extended opening. If folks think of a really viable way to extend the Dagobah material, I may include it in the script, but I don’t see it as that feasible anyway with existing material and looks too much like ESB (even if it comes from a deleted scene).
17. Select one. This one is tricky because the black shuttle and the shuttle with the Imperial logo both won, garnering 8 votes. I guess I’ll just have to decide which I personally prefer when I update the script, but I’m not even sure which one I like best. It was a tough item for me to vote on :)
18. Multiple selection. Barely beating the none vote, people voted for fishmanlee’s altered sunset. We also have another sunset at our disposal from Angel, but folks clearly want a prettier sky, so we’ll include one or the other.
19. Y/N. A very big winner was the inclusion of more aliens in the background when possible, both at the Rebel briefing, and if possible, also on Endor.
20. Multiple selection. The winner here (and barely) was having the Emperor’s shuttle take off from Coruscant and dock with his star destroyer.