Bingowings said:
It would also help disperse the impression that we are all waiting on one man if the other team members were to be a bit more vocal in regards to what they do and here not just on facebook because here is where it began and not everyone uses facebook.
I think that might be down to Ady wanting to keep certain aspects of the project a surprise. I certainly appreciate that he does that. As for things being on Facebook and not on here, for the most part I think updates have been repeated here, though not so much recently. But I do appreciate that it's a LOT easier posting an update to Facebook rather than the image hotlinking involved in doing the same on a forum. I've never understood people's aversion to Facebook either. You don't even need to be a member of Facebook to view the Revisited Facebook page, or its updates. Unless someone's boycotting Facebook as some kind of futile anti-capitalist gesture, I don't see the problem.
Bingowings said:
I also think that rather than having progress reports subject to fund raising drives and sheer body of moaning harms the project. It creates a false sense of simony. It would make more sense to do a monthly round up of what has been done with the occasional clip (but not too many) or picture (probably better and less draining on the final enjoyment of the piece) thrown in for good behavior.
Except the updates are nothing to do with fund raising drives or moaning. Occasionally, Ady has promised a new clip as an incentive for reaching a donation goal, however he's not been holding regular updates to ransom for donations. There have been updates whenever he's had something to update us on. A monthly round-up is pointless if progress is sporadic and Ady doesn't have anything tangible to show. And that's yet another deadline I sincerely hope he doesn't commit to again.
Bingowings said:
I also think an official ROTJ:R thread would help sooth any anxieties and transition the move from the nearly completed current project and the already started next one (the Dagobah trees will be used in both projects as would the lens that Ady is asking funding for).
A lot of the complaining on the Facebook page has been comments like "Why are you bothering to tell us your plans for ROTJ:R when you haven't even finished Empire?" I fully support Ady's decision to start the ROTJ:R thread when HE'S ready. I think it will be quite a cathartic moment for him when he finally draws a line under EP V and begins the page for ROTJ:R.