Bingowings said:

I was wondering...what are midi....no... I was wondering if it might make sense to do very rough workcuts of ROTJ:R and the PT:R before doing all the new effects etc.

One of the reasons why we get the sometimes serious, sometimes jesting complaints about progress is because these are labours of love and if you are looking for fast love George Michael is in a bush somewhere in London. Art is labour intensive and if you only have a small group of people with actual lives it takes time.

Most of us get this.

With ANH:R and ESB:R the plot is largely the same (there are hardly any fan-edit properties to the story just the framing) but it appears that the rest of the series is getting a serious overhaul in terms of plot elements.

This is where earlier release viewable workprints might come in handy (with the plot elements shifted around and maybe line drawings, captions and temporary dialogue tracks etc filling in for the new material).

It would show work in progress even when the tedious finessing is taking time.

It would give people something to discuss that may be of actual practical use to the Revisited Project.

And it would generate more hilarity like the SAVE LANDO!! thread.

Best idea ever? I would say: yes.