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DrDre said:

You suck at sucking!

Yeah, I’ve never heard classic Who referred to as anything other than “season.”

I thought the convention when it came to Doctor Who was that everything pre-1989 was “season” and everything post-2005 was “series?”

Where would the dialogue come from?

dahmage said:

You have all been added to my p.m. thread.

First topic:

Should we treat those with bad punctuation like people?

No, we should treat them like we treat Zoidberg.

Mistakes tend to seem less huge after some time has passed. As far as I’m concerned, if you learn and grow from a mistake, then it wasn’t really a mistake.

I wish they’d use the logo used in the season being released for the box art. =/

That looks so good! Great job, Ridley!

Hmm. I’d rather they keep them in standard def and cram as many episodes on each BR disc as they can rather than upscale, but okay.

Yep, as Molly pointed out, I was wrong. That’s a pretty healthy bitrate for stereo.

RUN_LUKE_RUN said:

poita said:

I’ve thrown well over fifty thousnd dollars of my own money and probably thousands of hours over the last ten+ years at preserving the original films, both for my own projects and other people’s.
There are some missing frames still, even though I have scanned many original prints. The SE has frames that are missing from the OT, and they are frames that were not changed from the original versions, and will be as close as we can get unless an OT print turns up with those frames intact.
For that reason alone, the SE is worth preserving.
The opportunity to scan the SEs came up, and it was a relatively small window of opportunity, so I decided it was worth holding everything else temporarily to get the SE done while I could. The quality of scanner being used would usually cost about $30K per scan, so it was an opportunity not likely to come up again.

That is from my personal point of view, others feel the SE are an important film in and of themselves, and the theatrical version has never been released in full high definition unaltered, which is kind of ironic.

Either way, it represents an opportunity that I took to get them scanned while I could, and to be honest I ran out of money to continue much work on the OT for a while, and it looked like others would fund the majority of getting the SE scanned, so it seemed a good idea to get that done.

I’m sure others can put forward good reasons to preserve the SE, but the above are mine, even though I am not a fan of them at all.

yea as i said thanks for doing this i wish i could help and thanks for clarifying your reasons i just thought you paused doing the originals and started the SE how close are you to getting ESB in 4k?

Dude.

Handman said:

Can you do anything about the hilt?

Yep, seeing that shot seals the need for hilt replacement to make the color change work for me.

The “nineteen” change during the Tull section is actually something “Gunslinger purists” point to as a negative change in the revised version, as it makes one of Roland’s actions a bit more sympathetic than it originally was. I don’t think it was on the same level as the Han/Greedo scene (and having access to Roland’s internal thoughts during the scene keeps it a pretty despicable thing for him to do, even if it was doing the other person a favor in a cosmic sense in the revised version), but it’s somewhat similar.

The first book was five short stories, that were published separately over the course of a couple of years. The original published novel was those stories collected and revised.

But yeah, the story evolved as he wrote further novels, and the first one ended up being the most out-of-sync with the rest, so when he wrote the last three after his accident, he went back and revised it again to better fit the overall story.

He’d talked a bit about going back and revising the other books in the series once it was all done, but I doubt that’ll ever happen.

To use a Star Wars metaphor, it’d be like if the first movie was set in 3251, the Death Star blows up Earth, and the Emperor was two different people, but then Empire and Jedi were released afterward exactly as we have them now. So then George went back and removed the date references, changed the name Earth to Alderaan, and removed any references to there being two leaders of the Empire.

It’s not as dramatic as all that, mind you, but that’ll give you an idea of what sort of things were changed in the revised version of DT1.

He’s already like halfway through, though, and the revised came out right before books 5-7, so people were able to deal with the inconsistencies for decades without much trouble.

Not at this point, no. If anything, read it after you’ve finished the rest of the series.

Blade Runner deserved it, but yeah, Apes did too.

The hand thing was well documented in 2002 when the movie came out. Honestly, it’s the only 35mm/DLP theatrical difference I’m certain of. (I saw it both ways - made a special family trip to Chicago just to see the digital version for the second viewing - but I was 13, so I can’t guarantee accurate recollections other than that.)

I mean in the Blender project itself. There’s a thread for that, isn’t there? Maybe try asking there? I’ve not messed with it that much.

I like that one too, but I don’t like the word “gone” in the beginning. Not … I dunno … important-sounding? Having trouble finding the words…

Darth Lucas said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

I just watched a comparison clip of Yoda in Revisited, and I honestly can’t tell the difference.

You don’t notice the very obvious lip movements?

Yeah, I mean, it’s very well done, but it’s not perfect and there are some obvious awkward moments. (Still better and more seamless than the cantina in ANH:R:SD, though.)

If you Google a bit you should find a good range of ports to choose from. I can’t help much there as I don’t really do any initial seeding, just seed stuff I’ve already downloaded through a torrent, and then really only when I’m on a private tracker (I use a VPN and am mainly a dirty leecher on public trackers).

DominicCobb said:

The comic relief version is better anyway.

You and I will have to agree to disagree on that one.

paja said:

Does my beard intimidate you?

My prediction was right, it was just for the wrong time frame.

chyron8472 said:

Why are people saying “Welcome back” to me? I didn’t go anywhere.

You didn’t post for a couple days maybe? You tend to be pretty prolific sound here, so it may have been noticed. *shrug*