Hal 9000

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I believe I do have everything I need, but I have been unable to dedicate any resources to this project lately. Just life stuff. It’ll take some stochastic effort to get V4 done, but it will certainly happen sooner or later. Among personal things this is a priority!

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I wonder if you found the old Google Drive link. I’ll PM you the new one.

Edit: to be clear, I mean new as in a few years old now. There is no new link that fixes the recent issue or anything.

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The people who provided it to me and evidently have not yet sufficiently pruned stuff. I have asked about once a month but do not wish to annoy them.

Just a bump to acknowledge my 20th anniversary here today.

There’ll be a ‘Hal9000: Special Edition’ coming out soon to permanently overwrite and replace me.

Have still not been able to upload to the Drive. Nothing I can do but wait.

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This show has been a snoozefest.
I genuinely don’t get why Filoni is held in such high regard, as I tend not to like his stuff very much.

It’s one thing to feel a season of a show would’ve been better as a film, but I feel this one would’ve been better as half a film. To have spend close to 8 hours on this story so far, it doesn’t feel worthwhile.

That’s awful, and I don’t even want to put myself in those shoes mentally. Sorry that had to happen to you, and I hope against hope you can get it back or at least detonate the remote self-destruct button on it.

Nice! I share your fond memories for this series.

Here is the laundry list for V4, what stands out as incomplete or undecided:

• Undecided on whether it is better to use the Jedi healing illustration, which sacrifices the foreshadowing of the Wayfinder, or to allow her verbal reference to the texts be enough (not to worry, I know at least one other editor wants this illustration in their version, so it wouldn’t be a total waste!)

• I still need the AI lines for Jannah, either on their own or the audio for the entire edited scene

• It’s not too late to try replacing “lightspeed ramming” with someone else, but I’m okay with what is there

That’s a short list, guys!

CodenameAwesome said:

Could we get a version without letterboxing encoded into the video? I have an ultrawide monitor and it looks like this.

There is. Only the large 1080p version is encoded that way, and it’s in order to be BluRay-compatible.

I’d like to take a gander as well.

Fan_edit_fan said:

Other than “memmber berries” I can’t see why this show would be exciting to the average viewer…or any fan who was wanting something that stands on its own. People are crying over Hayden showing up,.flashing into Vader or just SEEING Thrawn. What else is being highlighted? Where’s the story that had to be told? Fans are declaring it the best thing ever just because they saw Hayden in Clone Wars armor. THAT gets a 10/10??? Like…even if he didn’t say anything all that important or really serve a necessary purpose for being there…it automatically gets high praise?

That’s more or less my impression so far. It’s been a slog for me. Sabine reads as a real moron rivaling Bail Organa, and the titular heroine feels stiff and boring. It was nice to see Hayden, but it doesn’t impress me in and of itself. If it had been a 15 minute special with just those snippets I think they’d be just as effective and enjoyable as they are in their context as part of this story.

I wish you had been there to get this into the sriptwriters’ heads because it’s totally plausible without massively restructuring the movie!

I do agree it’s rather ambitious to have it come across seamlessly with what we have to work with. There might be a couple of those ideas that could be implemented to just give a slight implication of a larger effect for Finn. Even what we’ve got already for Jannah helps a lot already.

I would say the line from the “I like it” lady about there being more defectors would be nice, except… it just doesn’t mesh with the joyous slaughter of stormtroopers that happens throughout the movie. Or, maybe we could couch that within Finn’s line, “I didn’t know there were others.” As though his next line should be, “Oh, shit!”

If there were a scene of Finn sending out a message to inspire troopers to rise up, I’d buy a line about it happening all over the galaxy. But if all we can do is change the line of dialogue, I’m afraid it’d be a bridge too far.

Hmm, it’s an interesting idea, but might be clumsy. We would’ve griped about this if the movie did this.

EDIT: You just added it too, the lightspeed ramming thing.

EDIT: Replace Finn’s offscreen line to Poe about people rising up all over the galaxy with him saying, “Poe, I just lead a stormtrooper rebellion via hologram all over the galaxy. It was epic.”

Recreate the opening crawl of all the movies in order to add an additional space between all sentences.

As soon as Ezra was on screen for ten seconds, it was the least annoying ten seconds I’ve ever had with him.