Hal 9000

To keep things involving the effort to revise the prequel trilogy edits one more time and include an alternate set of them to be more ‘maximalist’ and retain the original titles mostly within this one thread, I wanted to ask:

Are there any higher quality sources for the deleted scenes? Currently I have AI upscales that are a few years old. Nothing wrong with them, but I don’t know if there is anything better out there.

Also, I could still use an AI line to replace 3PO’s line in ROTS while taking off for Mustafar, “I think I’m beginning to get the hang of this flying business, hmm.”

Everything else I think I can get through myself, at a snail’s pace.

aGreatHumanBeing said:

It’s really good!

The only nitpick I have, is that the smooch at 0:46 is a little bit too loud. It sounds more like it would do in a parody of kiss, than an actual kiss.

I can make it quieter for sure; thanks!

Actually, when it is quieter it just sounds like a weird sound or like it’s an editing mistake. Works fine without it. There’s no kiss foley at all in the scene otherwise, save for Padme’s little gasp. So… no sound for their now-slower pull away works.

How’s this look and sound? I think it’s a big step up, thanks to JoyOfEditing!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mAlTuw5DdeRpPHeZdXEJvncrrVqrRtGC/view?usp=share_link

Depends on if the requisite components ever come into existence. I could simply use the bits in the current version worst case, if it looks abandoned.

Vader wears Padme’s necklace during ROTJ to show that the family re-connection has really gotten to him.

I do like this change and it seems to be an improvement over what I’ve been able to do. (I’ll remind you that most of the ideas themselves from my Ep2 edit came from predecessors.)

I’d like the raw footage and audio for this one if I could get it!

Yes.

PM sent.

Rors said:

I remember seeing a clip of Rey having a dream with Ahch-To Island in this reedit. Does anyone know what happened and if Hal9000 had removed this scene?

That wasn’t ever part of this project but is part of Nev’s Starlight edit.

Nice.

Yeah but it’s like “Saruman as he should’ve been” and stuff. Redeemed, restored, the way he should be when he died. I guess. Also what would be good for Luke to see. Like if you lose a loved one and see them as sort of a fulfilled version of themself without ailments or bad habits. Again, I guess.

Kind of refreshing to overhear little kids talking about “lifesavers.”

Here we are!

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Aalenfaes-PREQUEL-TRILOGY-Heavily-delayed-computer-exploded/id/13485/page/1

Did all the humans in Star Wars have a common ancestor on a planet or did at least some of them develop independently?

That wasn’t my original idea! It seems like I failed to make a proper note about it. I can’t for the life of me find or remember the guy’s name, but it was a user here whose screen name started with ‘Aa.’ Maybe someone reading this does remember and can point him out.

But thank you! This’ll be a treat to follow.

It wouldn’t work very well for the order of sequences that I use. But if I was just making that tweak to vanilla AOTC it’d be no problem.

Wow, very niche and interesting. Love it so far.

PM MR. I don’t know if it was him, but that’s my guess.

Although, my ROTJ added vocalization sounds from Temeura Morrison to replace those originally used for Boba Fett as he gets killed.

But yeah, I don’t want a Hayden ghost in ROTJ because it just doesn’t work to have a different actor in the same movie play the character, and because I feel it sends a message that Anakin merely regressed. Plus the footage used is dogshit.

I include some cover artwork with the edits.

R2 fires a projectile weapon to destroy R5-D4.

I’m doing that too. 😃

All right.

Andor - Wonderful slow moving show

Clone Wars (2003) - awesome to experience as the real-time bridge between Ep2 and Ep3

Mandalorian - fun cultural event, ran out of steam after a while

Obi Wan Kenobi - Not actively bad but is a slog; much better as a movie

Book of Boba Fett - big pile of meh, but was enjoyable enough to sit through once; low rewatchability

Bad Batch - perfect idea: side characters who aren’t directly related to galaxy-shaking events going on weekly missions

Ahsoka - as someone who doesn’t really appreciate the 2008 clone wars series all that much, this was sort of boring for me

The Clone Wars (2008) - it’s hideously ugly, and the political and war themes feel weird and disjointed when poured into children’s cartoon format

Rebels - similar as above, but Ezra is so grating and I’d approve of it more if it didn’t involve previously unknown Jedi

Resistance - just not for me, unwatchable as an adult

If you watch one episode of Andor per week starting next week, you’ll be right on pace to start season 2 when it releases, and of course barrel right on into this fan edit as a capper over the following three weeks.

This one is just an idea, and not sure how I feel about it.

Seems like it’d be a little cleaner from a continuity perspective for Luke to have a different response when Ben tells him his father was a Jedi who fought in the war. Luke repeats the lie from Owen about him just being a navigator on a freighter.

Instead, I’d think Luke ought to react with something like “wow my dad WAS that Skywalker.”

So what about his first line of the scene being “No, my father wasn’t the one who fought in the war, he was a navigator on a spice freighter.”