Hal 9000

To address something from MR’s thread, I hadn’t really planned on using his clip of added sparks to the sabers at the end of Exegol. But, the final product looks fantastic!

MR, do you plan to add Rey’s saber crapping out on her at the end of the DSII duel? If so, that seems like a natural buildup to this moment. Also, have you done an audio component to this change?

I agree, let me see what I can do with opacity and maybe working up gradually to having that shot be just a little bit lighter.

I’ll try to do another pass tonight.

I don’t imagine a red/orange cast making that scene feel better overall. It’s a different part of Mustafar we haven’t seen before, over in the forest area. And with the title crawl namedrop and Vader’s Castle added, there’s no room for confusion.

^ And Jar Jar, that’s the sort of thing I was trying to mitigate by lowering the opacity. It was more obvious where the feathered mask was in the clip straight from Nev.

I thought this in the moment after Kylo sliced through Luke and turned to see he was still standing in the theater, so make it a reality:

Luke was dead all along on that island. Anytime Rey’s eyes aren’t on him throughout TLJ, give him a ghost effect. For example, when she closes her eyes to meditate, the effect kicks in until the moment she next sees him.

“Your only hope is to try midichlorians.”

Eh, I think we’d almost need a sunrise shot, and I’m not sure it’d be really necessary. Might actually be a little on the nose to say “LOOK IT’S DAWN NOW, like the sun is RISING.”

Thanks, all! I will incorporate a yet newer version from Nev and eyeball it. It sounds like that’ll ensure a consistent environment for the first part of the scene, being nighttime until the establishing shot after Luke catches the saber. It’ll be just a little brighter for that part of the sequence, again in order to ease the burden of the feather mask around Luke.

I think with this context it is now unmistakable that Rey arrives at night and the dawn arrives during her time there. This ties in well thematically, obscures the less-than-stellar soundstage set for Ach-To, and gives a visceral sense of the passage of time even if the sequence is still characteristically rushed.

Alec Guinness joins Luke in TROS on Ach-To in sharing guidance with Rey.

“Don’t be afraid, [rai]!”

I can try adjusting the opacity further for more consistency in that regard, I think.

Nev sent me what he described as about the best he can get the Ach To scene to look. Here is a version tweaked a little by me, to see how it plays. I lowered the opacity by 20% so that just a little of the original scene comes in. The reason for this is to obscure the feathered mask around Luke that is still noticeable for a few shots in Nev’s version. (I did not make use of skenera’s de-blued Luke clip because it won’t be usable once we have jonh’s finished haircut footage. But, the normal LUT is applied and this could be how it can look in the final product, haircut aside.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V-2nw2VagJLKllVthbGrPL5eYb9KUjiq/view?usp=sharing

Unklar Plutt slams down KFC-branded food rations.

JEDIT: silly, silly typo. See next post.

Maybe they thought they’d leave her there for a few hours. I mean, given the final timeline we’re looking at it seems Ochi was right on their tail.

Rey could’ve come to see herself as having been “sold,” but the idea doesn’t need to be in this movie. That term need not be hung on it, I mean. If you want to describe what happened in TROS’ depiction of the past, it could be described other ways. Maybe they paid Unklar a little something to watch her a while.

Seems unnecessary for that moment.

Yeah, there are a few things in that scene that speak to the sequence not being ready for primetime. Personally, though, I agree with RJ’s reasoning for removing the scene. Without it, Luke and Rey have their falling out after a moment of hope and promise. Plus it is a long film as it is. I like the scene a great deal, but that’s why I didn’t reincorporate it into the film.
And without that scene the Caretakers don’t really serve a purpose, even though I don’t at all dislike them.

But let’s curb that topic, as it’s not relevant here.

I really don’t plan to trim Luke’s dialogue further than in V1, and I like his line about fear. I appreciate you mocking those up.

And I just don’t think the “lesson three” works in practice. It’s a nice idea and effort, for sure, but it just doesn’t feel right when I look at it in context. Seems weird for Luke to go there.

I’m gonna go ahead and put the Luke conversation to bed.

Who is Chancellor of the Republic?

Palpatine? Huh! Who’s vice-chancellor, Mas Amedda?!

^ It’s not totally finished, but that scene in particular has been.

Oh boy I’m not sure whether to watch the Boba Fett episode or the Tartakovsky opener.

Could you send me (or post here) just the “lesson three” snippet? I can implement it how it’d be if it were included and pitch it to the collective.

It’s hard to imagine getting it to sound like it should. I’m not sure how to describe what I mean. It sounds like he’s reading from a list. “Lesson two, lesson three, lesson four…”
I’d buy that audio-work in TLJ, but I just don’t think it’d be theater-worthy in the context of TROS. I’m sorry. 😦

To be clear, it’s not the audio work, it’s the material available to process.

They seem to take the role the opening narration formerly would. Also lets you connect things in a useful way. Plus, the opening theme and setup really does it for me. I like it!

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I like the idea but it is hard to imagine it really feeling organic, realistically.

Once I finish ‘Light Of The Jedi’ I think I’ll drown it in darkness.

I’d like to watch the movie-fied version of the KOTOR game(s), followed by reading some or all of the Old Republic era novels. Then the Darth Bane trilogy (which I remember enjoying a handful of years ago), then Darth Plagueis (again).

By then I’ll have excavated and explored the Dark Side to harness its power for my own ends.

You really took off with it! I’ve really enjoyed having these so far, even if I haven’t given insightful feedback since I don’t know the show well. It’s just been fun to have essentially a new show to watch.