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Yeah, that’s the specific post I was remembering. Just amazing.

If I recall correctly, Sir Ridley helped remove the timecode as well. It was some advanced, painstaking effort and far from automatic.

^ I am open to having the saber short out at the end of the DSII duel, if that pans out in the end, even though I wasn’t tracking that on my own list. Thanks for mentioning that.

And I wouldn’t include the TFA Falcon deleted scene. That seems like more than a longshot, so I feel bad even having that be included as a potential.

JEDIT: The Mustafar castle shot has the darkened windows, as it is presumably unoccupied and it helps it feel like decades have gone by since it was Vader’s castle.

And I’m really not sure laser fire would help the forest Mustafar shot. Actually, and this is reeeeaaaaally getting into the weeds, the presence of a single pine tree in the main sequence along with mostly a different type than seen during that shot leads me to feel better implying that those three TIEs had to fly a little ways to get to the battle itself.

Also, here’s the list of V2 changes and their status. (This is literally copied and pasted from my own list, so it’s not articulated well.)

• Try to make Kylo say “we’ve become a dyad in the Force” (being worked on, possibly finished)

• Try to depict a dusk>night>sunrise cycle on Ach-To

• Use sherlockpotter’s medal shot and adjust placement ✅

• If anyone can do it, depict Pasaana puppet show as depicting Luke’s heroics from Crait

• Remove three lines: “He wanted her alive” immediately before we cut to Ach-To and “I never wanted you dead, I wanted you here.” AND “…for my grandchild to come home.”✅

• Add 21C Peasant’s and Movies Remastered’s Vader Castle to the opening Mustafar sequence ✅

• Add two shots featuring Coruscant to the Star Destroyer conference room scene ✅

• Use Vader’s TIE rather than shuttle due to the poll results ✅

• new shot from MR to move “T minus five” line to before exiting hyperspace (not sure about this one yet, may leave as original)

Remove line “from the Southern shore” from 3PO’s translation, as that was when a protractor was involved, and now it’s merely a coordinate followed by mystical guidance ✅

• Restructure the space battle opening slightly like DominicCobb ✅

• Can Rey’s mother not mention her name? We all liked the idea that Rey named herself, per the X-wing helmet’s Aurabesh translation in TFA.✅

• Use the crackly saber effect courtesy of kewlfish and Luka Frik and MR (being worked on)

• Luke’s Jedi haircut (jonh needs to fix a couple things then skenera can de-blue)

I certainly think it’s possible to spitball ideas that are pie-in-the-sky without any implication that someone ought to start rolling up their sleeves to move mountains.

That said, I get how it feels to hear something as an imposition. We’ve all come a great distance and we’re gonna stick the landing for V2. Especially with TROS, there’s always going to be a million things that would be great to do that would require millions of dollars and a Hollywood studio to accomplish.

Of course, that general idea has been bent in my mind over the last year. But, we’re all limited in what we can bring to bear.

MR, whatever your day is looking like, or whatever time of day it is for you at the moment, please make sure to get a good night’s rest for your own sake. I’ve been so fortunate that for so much of our two projects their purposes have aligned in order to harness your creativity, talent, and hard work. Don’t want you to burn out!

Jar Jar Bricks, you’ve given a voice to my thoughts I feel like over the last few days and we are often on the same wavelength. I appreciate that, even if we get longwinded.

Barring any site rules, I’m all right with this thread getting repetitive at times and chasing rabbit trails. It’s how I imagine an honest mindmap of my own would go. But it’d probably be better for the project and all who venture into this thread to keep it tidy. I’d say for anything that gets nipped, it’d be better to explore those things further in the general TROS fan editing ideas thread. That’s not to crap on anyone’s ideas or work, but to make this as manageable for others who try to track our progress and lend their insights.

The dice went to wherever Luke’s robotic hand did.
That or on his stone nightstand next to the spoiled cups of green milk he was too lazy to tidy up.

That’s a pretty nice idea! I’m sure you understand, but I don’t wish to include the dice in TROS:A. Luke retrieved them in TLJ and they paid off. At best it’d be one more thing to strain between 8 and 9.

But man, how cool would it be to contrive a scene of Kylo entering the Falcon using the deleted scene from TFA? Essentially serving the same purpose even, just two films later.

If there’s one deleted scene I’d love to have it’s Kylo facing Chewie during that section of the movie.

I totally think if it were in the theatrical it would’ve flown past me with no issue. But then fanboys online would hone in on it and present it as proof that the movie had been messed with and changed all over the place sloppily.

So if you don’t mind continuing to tweak it, I will be glad to use it as long as it feels pretty much seamless in full context.

And just to splash a little more gasoline on the lovefest, none of my edits would be shit without the fan editing community going pretty much all the way back. You can trace phantom menace edits, for example, as though they were biblical texts or fairy tales with families of variants that can be chained along. I’ve said it before, when it comes to Star Wars I feel more like a curator (for the prequels) or a ringleader (for these).

It farts when you close it just right!

Replace Vader’s helmet throughout the sequel trilogy…

with this:

You’re right, it’s like any hobby that requires working together as a group. We build camaraderie and work toward our common goal.

That said, I can’t wait to see what you’ll cook up.

Yeah, I agree it may not be worth it if it overcrowds things. Too bad there’s not room where it seems to have originally belonged.

I can try it if you can direct me to where you found it. Depends how clean the channel is with the line.

You might be able to throw it into audacity, really.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Alright so here is an example of where I would place it (just try to imagine that the triumphant music isn’t attached to the line).

https://youtu.be/W0CSAdl4v9A

Imo, I think it would work well because it leads right into him laughing. But if you disagree it’s fine. I’m just trying to make sure we’ve thought of every possible change for v2!

Eeeeehhhhhhhhhhh… maybe!

Could work, but I doubt there’s a clean copy out there. The trailer was heavyladen with music.
I can’t find a good spot to put that line where it would feel organic, but who knows.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Also, now that the clean plate is done for the puppet show, who was it that said they would be willing to create the puppets for it?

Rey Nobody thread: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/REY-NOBODY-The-Official-Fan-Editing-Thread/id/76772

Sounds great to me! Even with shows I only watch after they’ve concluded, can’t help but consider the season blocking and infer about the experience if I’d been watching them as they premiered.

It’d be good to have archived I guess, I could imagine revisiting this fondly in a decade or something.

It still seems weird to me that it all came together the way it did. Again, it’s like the civilian fleet in the movie. I’m not aware of such a wide collaboration for a fan edit project and I’m happy to be the MC. When the movie came out and I felt the weight of how little free time I have anymore, I almost cut 9 loose and forgot about it in terms of working on a fan edit project.

EDIT: Nevermind; you can’t print gifs.

Man, that’s perfect. Sincere bravo to you. As much as I sometimes think “hey I’ve gotten pretty good at sound mixing for edits” things like this remind me that I haven’t skimmed the surface.

That’s wonderful. Once you’re happy with it please just send it along.

JEDIT: And I just looked; you’re quite a new member, too! Where the hell’d you come from? Thanks for everything so far the last month or so.

Sounds great!

It gets repetitive but so would my own self-dialogue if I had ample time to mull over this, so it’s helpful to a point!

But yes, I think I’ve got it resolved, as I said a while back: no changes to TFA or TLJ about this but hopefully can change the line to “we’ve become a dyad.” But if not, oh well.

TestingOutTheTest said:

@RogueLeader Because I’m clearing up misconceptions regarding TRoS and its so-called “effects” on TFA & TLJ and you guys seem to act as if you can’t infer things from TRoS and the prequels?

Oh, please. We aren’t trying to deduce a canon answer, we’re thinking about what changes to make for alternate versions of the source material. As part of that we consider sources of confusion and how muddy that can get in the minds of moviegoers. I’m sure there are answers out there but I’m wondering how to smooth things over for a first timer who will never read any of the ancillary material.

That wasn’t my understanding. I thought we said the dyad and the mind bridge were two separate things that interacted to some degree.

I don’t blame anyone for getting confused.

Why remove that line? The fact would remain anyway, and I don’t see what there’d be to gain.