This whole thing seems as avoidable and silly as the continual issues that have gone on with TN1 since the beginning. Why in the world is there need for such secrecy, yet simultaneous openness on here and even public sites? Then combined with the continual multitude of releases and tests everywhere it all gets very confusing–much as if all the various members never conversed with one another.

I also don’t get why it had to be an anonymous Team account so that one could never figure out if you were talking with the same entity or needed to re-explain yourself.

I think this is a major problem going on here, that there are just too many folks, projects and discussions running around and less of the overall unified atmosphere that existed when I joined years ago. This whole situation underlines the problem. And with Disney now doing who knows what with the OT due to both the new sequels and the upcoming 40th anniversary, I think we’ve got to be both more careful and united as a group committed to the OT’s preservation.

Because at the end of the day, we’re just doing what we can in place of the shoddy official “work”. We research, learn and discuss in order to try and try over and over again. Nothing we do can ever be perfect and we’ve always run the edge of what is exactly legal.

This place is invaluable; it can and has taught me more about the process than any school ever did. If I somehow misread what happened here, then by all means disregard this post. I just wanted to put my two cents in with how it felt to me.

And it’s all the more sad because the Silverscreen v1 was staggering even though not yet completed, and the IB sample is IMO the single best thing we’ve ever managed. What a shame.