Hal 9000

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I’m sorry to hear that, man. Thanks for checking in, and there’s no reason to rush with this.

I appreciate the input on it, but I’m settled with the current ending shot, visuals and auditory.

I am planning to do a Rey Nobody alternate version, but I don’t think there’d be a correlate of people who prefer that and people who have a preference about the Anakin ghost. I might just have to render out the scene at full quality and include it as an extra so that anyone who wanted could edit it in themselves as easily as possible.

Who knows, though? It may not end up being a problem. I don’t mind Hayden being there

Hmm. I don’t really see or hear how that helps. I really don’t have any issue with what’s there, and that just sounds like a good transition with something discordant over top. Sorry, but I don’t think it’s an improvement, at least not to my ears.

Totally unrelated, but I’m taking this waiting period to start syncing English subtitles to my modified ‘extended editions’ of Kerr’s still (!) unreleased Lord of the Rings edits. Turns out with small children around we watch everything with subtitles! So, that needs to be done before I “retire.”

Sure, he could look a tad younger! I think that’d be reasonable since it sounds like there’s a lot of photoshopping happening anyway.

I leave that to him. But it’ll be interesting to see, if it ends up bring possible!

The norm seems to be that Jedi continue to, or tend to, manifest as they appeared when they died. I’m sure this is not a requirement, but a convention. And one has to venture into alternate versions of the films to break this norm (04SE or subsequent).

I’d rather they had filmed Hayden doing something substanative than used CGI to recreate Shaw. However, since they didn’t and using CGI is necessary to get either of them, I think Shaw fits better. Otherwise it’s three old men and Hayden. Shaw is the only Anakin ghost for me in ROTJ, and so it would seem to fit naturally for TROS.

That being said, I’m content with Hayden’s Anakin as he currently appears in jonh’s clip if Shaw doesn’t quite pan out.

Whoo, if jonh manages to get a good Shaw ghost that’d be stellar. It’s hard to picture, but hey, I wouldn’t put anything past him!

And I much prefer the credits music as they are. I don’t find the suns position or anything else off at all, and am very happy with the current state of it.

Well, I know jonh has been busy but we’ll see if maybe September ends up being the month all the last pieces come in.

The suns change position in almost the same way in the theatrical, so if this is jarring it isn’t because of what we did here. I am fairly certain it’s the same footage of the suns even.

Burbin, you’re absolutely right. Thanks! I’ll see about one of the other two line options for that.

Right, I had recently removed the second chunk of the DOTF during the duel. So hopefully that’s a better overall compromise.

And I’ll go through and check the added musical pieces. I would rather have them, DOTF especially, be subtle but not intrude than to grab you and potentially not work. I know I have the 3PO and R2 music a little on the quiet side, because I don’t think prominent music is right for that moment.

Plus any given jerk who is cut off gets a little bit of justice worthwhile in its own right.

I’m afraid it doesn’t work like that. We all look and act identically to our icons IRL.

I don’t know if I LOVE it, but I just noticed that Kylo Ren echoes something from TLJ.

As he was about to kill Snoke, he says, “I know what I have to do.” Then, he echoes this when telling Rey she has to join him in killing the Emperor. “You know what you have to do.”

Blueffalump, thank you for joining the discussion and I appreciate your comments about the other 9000 edits. I don’t blame you for finding this thread unwieldy and jumping just straight into the workprint.

I also appreciate your feedback about the final shot, not having been enamored with it previously while it was being developed and having apparent impartiality to it regardless of whether it was studio or fan made.

I’ve gotten much more positive feedback about it than negative, and have come to love it myself, too. I never liked the original shot, less so even after learning that Rey was composited in from a shot on Pasaana. She looks thin, unnatural. I do enjoy the combination of Poe, Finn, and Chewie on the Falcon as Rey heads to Tatooine and then the main gang jets out. I don’t think our goal at any point was to show that Rey wasn’t planning to stay on Tatooine per se, but it does help make that clear. My favorite aspect is the musical alteration, rather than reusing TFA’s ending sore and the Force theme for the third time in a row.

Bottom line is that I’m not about to undo this change, though your visceral, honest feedback is helpful in vetting it.

And that’s… a pretty creepy icon. Hope you stick around!

Rodney-2187 said:

I think constantly striving to improve on things is great for fans and everyone involved, but at some point you have to stop and smell the roses and recognize just how far watching Star Wars at home has come.

Yeah! That’s what I will tell myself whenever the OT progresses to looking better than I did with it.

Anyone know if there’s any upcoming re-release of TROS, like how TFA was released again in 3D BluRay a while after the initial BluRay?

Well, Anjohan, I’ll welcome your thoughts once you see the whole thing! Thanks for posting.

And, smpearce1981, your post is entirely reasonable and correct. The TIE thing doesn’t bother me per se, but it was an opportunity to make a change that steered clear of what feels like an incongruity. Otherwise we’d never make changes like this and always defer to and accept official explanations.

Not when it’s buried in the wreckage of the second Death Star.

That’s a reasonable idea, but my issue within the SW films in their own Platonic realm is that ANH makes a point about TIEs not having hyperdrives, so I’d prefer having something distinct that we do know to have them.

Because if a “well, technically” answer works, the question was invalid.

Several Jedi council members had different saber colors prior to AOTC, right.

A hallmark of Star Wars is a constantly changing sense of continuity. There’s nothing smooth about it. The EU are nanobots trying to heal somebody constantly being injured in all manner of ways. You can appreciate the effort and do some of it in your own head, but the ST renewed the franchise’s commitment to never planning ahead and constantly retconning everything.

If you get a copy of any new EU books you can find+replace synonyms for blue for purple, glancing at the context as you go.
This is the sort of detail that just doesn’t matter whether it lines up with other stuff.

I guess, if someone had sent it in!

Edit: I get the reference.

Eh, I still prefer predominately fan-made ship names. I don’t think it’d be a great idea to reach out to him for this.

Right, well said.