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And, Luka, that looks perfect to my eyes.

Also, I’m genuinely interested in your first impression of the added dialogue when the huge fleet arrives, since that was totally absent in the theatrical. Did it feel like an edit or addition by us?

Anjohan, thank you for your thoughts. Interesting to hear from someone for whom Ascendant was their first viewing of the film. I tend to agree with your overall assessment, that the movie is really an unfortunate conclusion to the saga and doesn’t leave fan editors much of the usual gifts. It’s a frustrating movie that we’ve been able to improve to a satisfying degree, though it remains a mess.
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts if you skim through the cut list, if you haven’t already.

The musical theme closes the last four saga films.

It was cool to see and it must’ve been a big project for him to put together, but I don’t think there’s anything new I would actually wish to see folded into the film itself.

jonh’s work is sublime in its subtlety and fits better for this project, which it was meant for and this other thing was not.

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If you can really, really nail the transition from this new music into the original score, then I’m all for it. But I’m not sold on it. I still like the original score for the scene more.

That’s how I feel as well.

I can try again without the burden of preserving sync, so idk for sure but can be revisited.

Video is down. 😕

I thought Luke and everyone else was taking him too seriously, almost like he was a religious figure.

Then, I remembered… “hypocris, hubris.” Makes sense if this is the sort of thing Island Luke would look back on with derision.

Ooh, good catch.

Could certainly give it a shot.

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Looking forward to this, and I’m sure your strategizing will pay dividends when you get to putting it together.
Looking forward to the new SW show I never got much into before. Any idea when you expect to begin the weekly release?

What, like in the rain?

Yeah, exactly.

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You’re not.

Maybe a flash frame of Luke drinking green milk?

I doubt it, unless audio snippets.

I’ll mark those down, thanks.

😐

I think I know why, too. Well, I’ll just keep it in mind for the moment and see if it’s worth doing a buncha rigamaroll to address.

EDIT: Oh, who am I kidding… of course I’ll do it. Any other tweaks to consider while I’m at it whenever I do?

How do I tell?

The batches seem to be levels of how much you want to see. Could stick with 1, or go to 2, 3, or 4. Once one picked what level to go to, would you recommend any order to view them, or watch all of batch 1, then 2, etc.?

Add a subtitle as Greedo says “Maclunkey” which reads “Maclunkey.”

The crackly blue saber fits nicely into Rey’s inner conflict, fearing that she may go dark. The saber was split in half the last time we saw it and making it crackle lets that event have some sort of meaningful (or any) effect on the story following. Rey needs guidance, needs discipline, and needs to cohere. It also makes some more sense of the line about earning the saber.

It just fits like a glove, so it’ll be great to see completed. But, if you prefer it to be absent, I’d suggest keeping your copy of V1 and editing in any other potential V2 alterations you like.

I’d like them as well!