Wumpusroom said:
0:00 - The registered trademark over 20th Century Fox appears to be superimposed after the fact.
Yes, it was (in the original, of course) :-)
13:07-13:22 - The Jawas look blurry and superimposed, probably due to limitations on the source that was available, because of compression. Probably the best that it can be.
Only the sky was changed here, so the Jawas are exactly as they appeared on the BD and in the original.
29:03 - Are there chalk drawing behind the landspeeder as the Sandpeople sort through the landspeeder? The detail is incredible in this edition.
Cool, huh? :-) I only noticed this recently myself.
33:24 - As Ben lets go of the lightsaber, there is a frame with damage behind Ben's back (blue burn look). This should be fixed.
It shouldn't be fixed, since I actually put it there as it was originally there and seems to be some kind of compositing mistake of the lightsaber element and should therefore be preserved.
42:19 - It really sounds like Ben is saying "You will never find THE more wretched hive of scum and villainy." Notice THE, not A.
As a student of English linguistics, I can explain this phonological phenomenon quite thoroughly - it is called linking and it causes the speaker to link the words ending in a consonant with words beginning in a vowel - in this case the normally unstressed "D" sound at the end of "find" gets linked with the schwa sound standing for the indefinite article "a" in fluid speech and together they create a sound which is one of the ways of pronouncing the definite article "the" in English. I hope that explains it :-D
43:14-43:17 - The red astrodroid the landspeeder goes past is incredibly blurry, and quite distracting to me. Actually, it's the only thing in the entire v2.1 that I find highly objectionable. I understand it's due to the source available, with compression on a detailed scene with movement, but I don't think the original screenings were this blurry. I guess it could be due to the smear from the landspeeder. I looked up this scene in the special edition, and the droid is very sharp. Not sure if it's from the original source, or redone. But of course their version is pure crap. Is there any way to sharpen it slightly using that?
Yeah, it's caused by the smear from the original effect and since it was put into the v2.1 shot from a 2K scan of an original print, I can assure you that it was like this in original screenings. Only this shot was always incredibly crude and dirty, so cleaning it up unfortunately makes thing like this even more obvious.
43:37-43:40 - The green lizard in the background is a little too sharply focused compared to the rest of the scene. Yeah, yeah, I know I just complained about a scene being too blurry.
Here I simply disagree, it is as sharp as it's supposed to be, or maybe even a little less, given that it was partially sourced from the GOUT DVD.
49:06+ - I'll assume Greedo's subtitles in color and font resemble the original release?
Yes, while not a 100% perfect match, they are pretty darn accurate.
53:14 - The mysterious green person behind Han is even more obvious in this HD version, haha.
Yeah - it seems to be Obi-Wan :-)
55:39 - Tarkin has a stray hair on his left side. Kudos on how sharp this image is. The stray hair reappears at 1:50:36. They must have filmed both scenes at the same time.
Yeah, that's the magic of high definition - gotta love it.
55:50-55:52 - Tarkin is visually clearly still talking, though there is no sound.
1:00:38 - And here Vader makes hand gestures clearly showing he originally had dialogue, though he is not speaking.
Yeah, those are known mistakes, which I'm frankly quite amazed weren't fixed in the SE (but I'm not complaining, since they would have been really hard to restore using sources other than the BD or HDTV SE).
I actually miss C3P0's tractor bean description and the stormtrooper's close the blast doors lines. Hope you have an alternate audio track with them. It's already not the original soundtrack because of Aunt Beru, right?
v2.1 contains all three original mixes - the lines you're looking for are in the original mono mix, which is audio track number 3.
1:08:39-1:08:55 - Mark Hamill seems to not have dubbed his lines very accurately, his lips seem pretty far off to me.
1:19:54 - Was the stormtrooper hitting his head that obvious in the original soundtrack?
Must have been, since this is for all intents and purposes the original soundtrack (or one of the three original soundtracks to be exact).
1:22:49 - 1:22:55 and 1:24:13-1:24:16 - This matte is pretty bad, when Ben is on the catwalk. Was the coloring this far off in the original screenings? Other than that astrodroid, this is the only other thing in the entire V2.1 I find distracting. I have an old issue of Starlog, about issue 8, that would show how far off it actually was.
You can't trust the colors of printed pictures. Ever. Especially not in old magazines. The color difference was always there.
1:46:36 - Noticed the y-wing farthest to the left blinked. When slowed down, saw that it just disappears when it hits the bottom border. Was this in the original release like this? If so, leave it, I guess.
Not only was it originally this way, it was actually fixed in the SE and "unfixed" in the Despecialized Edition.
1:54:19 - Did they show a y-wing surviving during the attack? Yes, I know one returns, but who?
I honestly don't know :-)
Also, I really noticed a couple boxes around TIE fighters until I barely adjusted my contrast, then they completely disappeared, and I don't remember where they were. No, not suggesting a change, but surprised they were still there.
It's possible, some of those survived - those bitches are really hard to get rid of sometimes :-)
Finally, the chapter stops are terrible, they should be between scenes, not just every five minutes.
Yeah - TS Muxer does this automatically - it will be fixed in the v2.5 MKV and BD.
I want to congratulate Harmy on an incredible job, finally being able to see a version of Star Wars that lived up to my expectations, and that I can enjoy. Thank you so much!
Always nice to hear that my work made someone happy :-)