The most pressing question I have though, and I’d really appreciate a definitive statement is, Are the TIE fighters going to vanish? If so, have they already been corrected, or is that yet to be fixed before the release?
Honestly, when you first asked about this, I wasn’t even sure what you were talking about, because in 005’s gallery, the description of the shot doesn’t mention vanishing tie fighters - I had to go in and compare the shots frame-by-frame to see it. But the whole shot’s been recomposited and there seems to be little point to just making the tiny little fighters vanish for two frames without actually replacing the whole shot.
Oh I didn’t realize that. Do you have access to that shot on film to restore the original composite? If the original shot could not be restored for 2.5, making the fighters disappear anyway would still hold the original integrity of the effect to a certain degree. After all, preservation of the original films to the fullest extent possible is what Despecialized is all about. 😉