Hal 9000

JakeRyan17 said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

I think Lord & Miller’s take would’ve been far better. A nice silly adventure instead of a generic one.

I mean, I loved Spaceballs… but I’m glad they decided to keep the tone of Solo fun but still connected and grounded to the rest of Star Wars. Lord & Miller didn’t want to do that, and their version would’ve been like making Lego Star Wars canon (which, it’s not).

Oh, that darned canon. Wouldn’t it be easier if it all just… blew away?

That’s great news. 😃

Awesome!

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Replace Yoda in ESB and ROTJ entirely with an AI-generated Liam Neeson voice.

I do this for clarity’s sake, and it wasn’t the first time.

Unless you’re going to watch them on a better setup than I have in my home, V6 ought to be fine if you don’t want to wait. lol

That said, V7 has now fully arrived for COD and TAS. I have not yet gotten to work on LOE.

Just uploaded COD and TAS to the Drive, but I haven’t started doing LOE yet.

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Also that Yoda counseling scene sort of tacitly validates the idea that these are genuine Force visions that ought to come true rather than lies.
It’s sort of tragic, like why didn’t Anakin just say something to someone?

Yeah. Damn, that’s too bad. Glad to think it through, though.

Well, one important function of the scene is that Padme sees and knows Anakin is alive after the Temple burning. Otherwise she seems distraught and then mellow about it with no transition. Hmm.

Yes, that scene fell victim to the idea of moving Anakin’s nightmare forward in the movie.

I mean… if Yoda had a hologram effect added it could be included. Lol

It wouldn’t be LOE, but you could make a good ROTS edit with this scene arrangement:

• Anakin and Padme reunite; pregnancy revealed
• Grievous arrives on Utapau
• Balcony scene (“love has blinded you”)
• Nightmare (ends as Anakin walks off, Padme remains asleep)
• “I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi” deleted scene
• Obi-Wan telling Anakin that Palpatine requests his presence
• Opera of Squid Lake
• Yoda’s counseling session
• Palpatine appoints Anakin to Council
• Council unhappy about this
• Bail’s apartment deleted scene
• Obi-Wan asking Anakin to spy on Palpatine
• Jedi traffic scene
• Padme and Anakin “you’re sounding like a Separatist”
• Second nightmare with Obi—Wan, “I feel lost”
• Kashyyyk battle
• 3PO serving drinks political deleted scene
• Anakin and Obi-Wan farewell, Obi-Wan heads to Utapau
• Petition of Two Thousand deleted scene
• Obi-Wan arrives on Utapau

I wonder what you all’d think of this. It’d be… quite different from LOE as we know it, so I don’t want to sort of do a bait and switch.
It borrows some of the nice things about L8wrtr’s edit, and lets us hang onto the Yoda counseling scene. The fundamental difference from LOE would just be that the nightmare would now precede most of the political setup. This uncouples it from the tighter implication in LOE that Palpatine is causing Anakin’s nightmares (rather than a genuine vision that would narratively need to occur to feel satisfying).

Perhaps the “alternate version” could feature Padme’s death and be structured as above. It wouldn’t be LOE per se, but it might be the best way to present a version with that ending intact.

Well, not if we make it look like the original prototype looked like that and remove that hologram from Ep2.

Oh, and I guess if anyone with the ability desires to make the Death Star under construction at the end have its dish located along the center axis to match the plans as seen in RO and ANH, I’d welcome it.

Just sayin’!

Probably deliberately silly.

Hal 9000 said:

I have been working on something, and it’s nearly ready to be released.

I decided to reissue Cloak of Deception, The Approaching Storm, and Labyrinth of Evil with remastered ‘deleted scenes’ using the footage provided by bryantmh as described in the thread linked to below.

While the result remains imperfect, it’s a large step up and the scenes feel like they posture themselves to blend in better with the main movie. I’d like to think I can set these prequel edits down without leaving anything on the table. I don’t think there’s much else anyone could do to make them more presentable in a theater (given that those deleted scenes are gonna be there).

I do not plan to make any real changes beside this. For COD, I added about half a second of pause after the new 3PO line immediately prior to the podrace sequence which was too quick in V6. For TAS I tweaked the sunset kiss effect and swapped the establishing shots before and after the ‘Padme addresses the Senate’ scene. For LOE I plan to reinstate the line “FOR DEMOCRACY” (because recent U.S. political shenanigans have given me an appreciation for it).

I would once again like to thank MMP, poppasketti, Catsailor73, ChainsawAsh, EddieDean, Josanael, RogueLeader, and Neerb for their help with the new(er) computer. Without it, this would not have been possible even if my older one hadn’t bitten it.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Info-AI-Upscaling-of-Deleted-Scenes-and-other-content/id/75020

Actually, I was rereading through some of NFBisms’ ROTS project and reminded of a few things. I am just entertaining the idea and feasibility of moving Anakin’s conversation with Padme (“Have faith, my love”) to before Anakin enters the Jedi Temple to slaughter the Jedi. To me this is an absolute improvement from a script perspective. One thing that would need to be solved to make it possible is what to put in that scene’s original placement.

I’d be happy to hash this out with you all and see if its something that would be desirable and doable.

Nah, man, sorry. But I get it; it was me who removed them and me who put them back after all.

Is it just me or does that logo feel similar to Buzz Lightyear’s logo?

ZkinandBonez said:

HelloGreedo pointed out something fascinating in his review of Chapter 15; https://youtu.be/Z2j2A_an09w?t=313
Mayfeld and all the stormtroopers salute with their left hand instead of the right. Now that could of course just have been the fictionalized SW version of it, but he also points out that the stormtrooper armor is mirrored, which you can tell from looking at the mismatched knee-pads/joints on the costumes. So for whatever reason they’ve mirrored several shots in the episode. Maybe the sense of direction was broken at some point, i.e. Cara and Fennec looked left while standing on the mountain ridge while Mayfeld & Din drove right, thereby causing some disorientation for the viewer or something like that.

Y’know… I kinda like the old school feel of doing stuff like mirroring shots like that. It’s part of moviemaking and need not be feared.

From an outsider’s perspective, I’d say yes as long as it doesn’t feel like it merely continues on with something tangential after what felt like the finale.

I’d check settings in the client and disable a VPN if you use one. (Should be safe for myspleen stuff.)

I think he meant the YouTube clip, despite its name.

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