Hal 9000

The ‘maximalist’ or ‘purist’ version of my AOTC edit is on its way up right now. (I may never be able to log into myspleen ever again from the looks of it, so that may not happen.)

Here are the changes made, starting from the main Hal9000 fan edit:

• Original title is used in the opening crawl (‘Attack of the Clones’ instead of ‘The Approaching Storm’)
• Reinstated dialogue establishing explicitly that attachments are forbidden for Jedi
• Reinstated two scenes (Obi-Wan, Mace, and Yoda dialogue scene as well as Yoda and the younglings) to retain establishing explicitly that Jedi are trained from extremely young and in order not to use the DVD landing platform deleted scene
• Reinstated two instance of Count Dooku’s Sith name, Darth Tyrannus
• Reinstated dialogue establishing explicitly that Boba Fett is a clone
• Reinstated Yoda’s lightsaber duel with Count Dooku

This version features subtitles, though does not feature a commentary track.

Neerb said:

I do prefer Padme living regardless of whether Yoda fights, but I understand if that goes against the point of having a more conservative edit.

Don’t you worry, because I agree.

LucasKart said:

Heya, I just recently learned this exists. I’m planning a future chronological group watch of the whole series but I wanted to spice things up with some of these alternate versions.

tl;dr I would love a link (mostly curious about the Nobody-edit myself even though that isn’t as up-to-date as I understand?)

Thanks!

PM sent. And you are correct; at this point I would suggest watching the main version of Ascendant instead of the Rey Nobody version for that reason.

Well, why not send me the line since you already have it and let me see about it. It’s a clever idea.

Wouldn’t it be a little silly for Padmé to blurt out a name?

Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

Hey Hal, any updates on your updated Extra-Stuff edits with the OG titles?

Slowly coming along, but may be a while. Starting with AOTC. I chip away at it. They’re still coming, though.

Pretty good!

doubleofive said:

asterisk8 said:

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

That guy with no name said:

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

Honestly, I’m starting to get very fearful right now.

What are you talking about? Are you ok?

Sorry, I just feel extremely worried about all these things that kept getting in the way of the Revisited edits being finished.

Pretty selfish viewpoint, no? Not “I’m worried about adywan” but “I’m worried I won’t get to see Revisited.”

To be fair, it’s entirely possible that Adywan has been working on Revisited for this user’s entire life. 😉

Assuming it’s not an April Fool, that’s wonderful to hear! Congratulations 🎉

That’s basically what I plan to do unless anything better comes along before I get around to it.

Master Lawdog said:

710 pages now! Holy crap!

It’s that can-do attitude that’ll get us to 711.

PMs sent.

Just wanted to let anyone know that I’m planning to watch season 2 of Andor one episode per week despite the release schedule, so I won’t be in this thread until July 9th.

Heartwarming.

Although… a sock? Shame, gonna miss him after the ban. 😭

That’d work if nothing else.

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.