Hal 9000

Maybe it’s like your own dog and some other jerk’s cat.

shrugs

It seems weird for the video to skip over Adywan. I suppose The Phantom Edit and TROS: Ascendant make for a nice contrast in terms of “then and now” bookending the Star Wars saga.

I’ve gotten several requests today for links to this project, probably from that video.

Yeah, 3PO is treated like dirt in this movie by the main characters. I dunno, it just felt different coming from Han or something.

And I enjoyed the video; very fair glimpse into the world of fan editing. And of course I felt proud of what you all have put together with Ascendant as it was mentioned at the end.

Hehe, that’s pretty good. I do like the original line, though, and it culls a line from a couple scenes prior. It does fit with his self-aggrandizing personality.

That’s too bad, man. Even if it never gets finished, I sincerely hope the experience was worthwhile for you.

I’d hope that single word could be tracked, masked out, and replaced seamlessly rather than recreating the entire crawl. Each of the OT’s crawls feel unique, especially ESB.

Hehe, nice. And great trooper voice, no offense intended to RogueLeader.

I suppose there’s not enough time in the footage to have the trooper address 3PO before his line, but I imagine it being funnier for it to be a direct answer to a slightly irrelevant question.

Could the trooper maaaaybe be trying to talk over him for the first two seconds, as though 3PO interrupted him to say that?

The last part of this thread’s title makes me feel weird.

Written English in Star Wars would be a little off-brand.

A couple decent hints at Kijimi being a boilerplate like that would dovetail with this edit’s crawl’s opening paragraph. I forget the exact words, but flames of rebellion spreading across the galaxy and needing to merely be united.

I’m all for it!

The shorting out is not a necessity, but seemed to fit in naturally with the added crackle effect conceptually.

The puppet stuff, still looking forward to it!

Kijimi graffiti could be cool, to hint at the pending ‘rise’ of ‘Skywalker’ in the heart of the people, if indeed someone wishes to bring it about. Otherwise, it’s not necessary.

And a “canon” suggestion that in TLJ no one came to help because the First Order left the phone off the hook is dumb as hell. I’m really starting to not care much at all for “canon” surrounding this movie or the ST overall. Death of the “author” is best for those, it seems. (I see this as a separate concern from not going out of my way to make edits inconsistent with books-and-things-like-that to come.)

Poppasketti has the Midas touch. Literally in this case.

I think if we applied Bricks’ Razor we’d whittle our whole change list down to nothing.

If the theatrical had this change, it would at least signal that someone somewhere along the line recognized “oh wait why’s he still got his ship after it blowed up?”

(FWIW, in my prequel edits I retained Qui-Gon saying that Anakin would’ve been identified early in the Republic. So not necessarily 3 years old but the gist is still implied.)

I like it!

And I’m pretty sure on Ach-To the paint is totally burned away by the time we get a look at it.

Y’know, I think I do. That insert shot is pretty short, but…

Let me put it this way: if editing the scene conventionally, I’d absolutely prefer the second. However, with the fan edit-y constrains of just having the shots we have, perhaps not.

Well, we’ll have options if the dub pans out! Great work, sherlock!

Yes, that’s pretty solid! I can’t tell in my head whether the shot of the guy would be better after 3PO’s shot. But otherwise it’s a pretty good version of the scene to use if we go with the 3PO dub.

Just add the Senate camera droid hovering around during Kylo and Luke’s confrontation.

Oh, yes, right. 😉

I liked RogueLeader’s idea of introducing the B portion of Across the Stars to their hand moment in TLJ and then in TROS. But I don’t plan to implement it in my projects. I like the existing music in the scene, and I think it’d be confusing or weird to insert it there and nowhere else.

Then again, ‘Luke and Leia’ as Jannah meets Lando, so…

The dagger wasn’t with her at that point.

Great discussion, guys. I appreciate the back and forth, even though I’m still out of it for now.

We do have the resources to mix together a choppy sentence, “Was I any different when you taught the Jedi Master who taught me?”

Whether it’s a GPS coordinate or knowing to use the knife in a mystical way, it’s still a piece of exposition that they needed 3PO in order to reach. I guess it does soften the impact of his sacrifice in a way not to have something pretty concrete to gain from it, that’s fair. In movie parlance, you’d expect information like that not to be costly, and would arise on its own. Y’know, sort of like how it does in V1 with Rey hearing whispers.

I’ll give it to you, that is something to weigh and consider in assessing this potential alteration.