BedeHistory731

I just finished Tarzan Alive by Philip José Farmer. It’s an engaging thought experiment to derive a biographical narrative through the Burroughs books (with real world context and scientific explanations), but the addendums are somewhat boring. I get why Farmer used them to ground the book in the Wold Newton Universe/establish the Greystoke lineage and titles, but it’s a slog to read.

Would it be good to follow up with Doc Savage or the Opar books Farmer also wrote?

Edit: nvm, not worth it.

My approach with all things Adywan is to wait two to four months between updates. It’s regular enough, but not surprising when radio silence happens.

Yeah, changing up the shots totally screws up the music’s pacing.

Superweapon VII said:

JadedSkywalker said:

Warriors that can put down rebellions and can end conflicts but don’t seek them out because they are peacekeepers. And negotiators. Their entire bodies and minds are sharp and honed like a weapon, but they only use a lightsaber in defense, never for violence as its own end. The Sith use violence and intimidation to rule.

One thing I would’ve like to have seen in the prequels is the Jedi relying on martial arts to non-lethally dispatch their foes, utilizing their lightsabers only in kill-or-be-killed situations.

That’s entirely reasonable. Perhaps their later deviations from non-lethal force is what signified their decline.

SparkySywer said:

You could have ignored their posts, but didn’t. Maybe you can find some understanding for their perspective there?

I get their perspective and I disagree with it. Maybe I could have been more graceful, IDK.

This seems like a fantastic idea.

Channel72 said:

But it’s just so fun to whine about.

It sounds absolutely miserable for the people who don’t like the movies. What’s wrong with just ignoring media you dislike, just pretending it never happened? Hell, Legends is right there as a different canon to follow.

The variety of settings and the art design.

Whining about The Last Jedi is still a big red flag for me. So what, a bad movie came out that didn’t do what you wanted with a character? Move on with your life and just never acknowledge it.

The more I realize it, the more I just wish we never had sequels to ‘77.

JoyOfEditing said:

Okay first off, I need to know the story behind your username. Anyone whose username references one of the greatest tomes to come out of the twin monasteries of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, must have an extreme amount of class.

That was an outgrowth of a medieval manuscripts class I took in college. The name really appealed to me and I’ve been rocking it ever since.

To your Jedi question, the answer to that is blasphemous. . . You have to cut Boba Fett out of the fight, because if you do, suddenly everything works. It turns out the main villain of the Sail Barge should have been the bro with the deck gun, because he ties together Luke’s swashbuckling and Han’s skiff sinking together like a bow.

That’s exactly the kind of change I was thinking of to improve the scene. Cutting Boba out focuses the action a lot more.

I’m curious how you’ll handle the Sail Barge battle, as I’ve never been particularly keen on how it’s structured in the movie.

I mean, compare the LPP Harmy had of ROTJ against any version of 4K83. You can clearly see that one film print presents a different look from another, with the LPP being of lesser quality than the show print.

I’d be down for an alternate audio track that restores all the unused music. Hell, I’ve even thought about doing a custom mix for ESB:R that restored all the unused music for Empire.

I find it funny how the compositing error survived the 2004/11 SE and 2012/19 SE, given how much attention was paid to recompositing shots in ROTJ.

Force speed a.k.a. “A wizard did it.”

Apologies for an overused gif, it just worked too well here.

^ That’s the gist of why restoring the wall is a good idea. Too many Special Edition changes created errors in continuity and/or look terrible because ILM was experimenting.

Also, ROTJ helmets remind me of this:

It sucks that they were the look Lucasfilm went with in the SE.

Re: the dead end – I prefer its simplicity and that it’s entirely reasonable that some multi-level equipment within the Death Star would require sections of levels to be closed off. In other words, the Death Star’s design layout isn’t entirely dissimilar to the Black Mesa layout.

Re: the restoration – fantastic work, Ady! The 4K77 preservation has really improved the potential quality of despecialized segments within Revisited.

Superweapon VII said:

Channel72 said:

Superweapon VII said:

I generally accept DS9 as canon, though not many of the elements I dislike about TNG that carried over, such as the depiction of Klingons. I’m not sure if I accept Jadzia’s death and Ezri Dax’s existence as canon.

The TNG depiction of Klingons is just a slight variation on the depiction of Klingons in The Motion Picture, The Search for Spock, and The Undiscovered Country. (Except they no longer have pink blood in the 24th century I guess, and the honor culture thing gets cranked up to 11.)

I’d say the TNG Klingons are flanderized versions of the TOS film Klingons. Also TUC had the most well-rounded depiction of the Klingons.

TNG Klingons can be fantastic, but I dislike their relative lack of depth as a culture. But that’s more an inherent flaw of TNG’s writing of cultures than anything specific to the Klingons. DS9 Klingons are a little better, especially once Martok becomes a regular.

Howdy, Adywan! I’m glad to hear your health has improved and it’s fantastic to see the new edits. I guess I’ll never unsee the continuity errors in the original edit now.

As for the hallway shot, I don’t mind either the recomposite you did or reverting to the OOT shot. 4K77 might patch it well, with added shadow detail from the 4K78 print (a low-contrast color reversal internegative) and the blus for the stormtroopers and Han.

henzINNIT said:

BedeHistory731 said:

Sci-fi fans: We need fresh IP!

Rebel Moon: exists

Sci-fi fans: Not like that!

Rebel Moon is anything but fresh.

… Or good.

Exactly. Nobody knows if new IP’s are ever going to be good, and when they aren’t, it means more recycled IP’s.

Sci-fi fans: We need fresh IP!

Rebel Moon: exists

Sci-fi fans: Not like that!

It could just be that the stormtrooper squad didn’t get the info. Even in the OOT, they seemed pretty intent on killing the main characters.

I prefer lightsaber colors denoting sects of the Jedi Order/breakaways. Blue would be the mainstream faction, green would be a splinter, red would be the traditional Sith color, etc.

G&G-Fan said:

He wants everyone to submit to this tyrannical view of art that you have to think something is good just because it represents the artist’s vision.

He took this scene from The Producers and formed his whole philosophy of art from it.

Also, I’d love to see him watch Neil Breen’s filmography and give that same defense.