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Hal 9000

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#1405953
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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I didn’t realize it was finished either. Could you direct me to download links for them?

I had/made some time this evening to tend to this project. I added the Death Star duel saber footage from Luka Frik, and the Coruscant shot. The latter needed an audio extension so I patched that. I borrowed DominicCobb’s idea to merge two sequences that were split of Rey landing on Exegol and making her way toward the Emperor. I removed Sith-eyes Threepio mentioning that the spot must be approached “from the Southern shore.” And I removed Rey’s mother calling her by name, which was easily done without issue. (I like the idea from TFA lore that Rey named herself, borrowing from the X-Wing helmet she had. If any future EU stuff depicts her name going back to birth, this won’t contradict it.)

I tracked the timing adjustments made to sync, so hopefully I can adjust the commentary, subtitles, and chapters without a bigger fuss.

Felt good to get this more in order. And although I don’t know when, there will come a Rey Nobody alternative version.

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#1405885
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Vader’s castle shots, Coruscant shots (may be finished, I don’t remember), crackly saber, and a de-blue effect for jonh’s Luke haircut.

Not to mention implementing those things and trying out a couple other ideas I can do on my own. Once the ingredients are there I’ll be happy to get it rolling when I can.

EDIT: It seems like jonh still had another pass to make on the Luke footage, too.

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#1405634
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE]
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501st. I think if this truly were a new show I’d be asking, “Why do the clones have such piss and vinegar? I thought they were genetically altered to be docile sheeple that blindly took orders.”

Even so, I enjoyed this one. It wasn’t super fascinating but I assume it covers and develops up future primary clone characters, Rex and Cody included. There was some welcome involvement from other series regulars.

The pacing was quick, even as it was a longer episode. It’s just gonna be inevitable with this sort of project, though. It surprised me to see 99 DIE though, given the gag video you posted a couple days ago!

I like that Obi-Wan (and Yoda) hasn’t yet had much to do with R2. I don’t know if that will (or should) continue, but so far I imagine he’s just dismissive of droids as AOTC establishes him and probably doesn’t remember R2 by ANH or at least doesn’t assume it’s the same droid right away. Like if you finally remember someone’s name 10 minutes into a gathering and don’t really have the occasion afterward to use it. Like old Ben just doesn’t really care about droids much, kindly though he is.

Okay, I don’t know if that’s helpful as I’m just giving you my thoughts as I imagine having them if this were a new show.