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Faraday, thanks for that writeup, and it’s very affirming that the movie worked that well for you. I take it as a testament to the process we employed; it’s not like we all foresaw this and then made it happen, we just did what was good to do as we were able to.

Kinda makes me want to watch the Rey Nobody version of the movie, which I had not sat down and done yet. Well, there goes my evening I guess!

EDIT: Also, I want to assure you that I have not forgotten about V3, but I have been chipping away at the tedious aspects of preparing another project for release. Updating my edit of ROTS for what I fully intend to be the last time. Then at the moment, Ascendant V3 is the thing it makes the most sense to focus on next. (My TPM edit is due one final update, but The Man With No Name is working on FX for it as well as a new source I’d like to use for ANH.)

Best of luck, and I hope you succeed to your own satisfaction. I could say the same about myself having three go-rounds, except that 2 and 3 just happened contiguously.

Hope that you can scratch that itch and feel good about how it turns out.

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Remove Han and Lando’s pre-existing friendship in ESB. Use an AI voice in just a few spots to recharacterize Lando as angry that Han, a known rebel figure, has shown up at his city.

Oh, and change his name to Rando.

Yeah, they’ll all three probably be updated again sometime or other. The OT is the most ripe for improvement in my mind out of my SW projects.

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Thanks! I’m always glad to hear they’re being enjoyed. Happy Revenge of the 5th.

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RogueLeader said:

And if I did, could I use your Semi-Specialized edition as a basis?

RogueLeader said:

the only film I’d like to make a fan edit of at this point is this one.

Does anyone know a way to have something auto-generate garbage subtitles like the ones you see on YouTube? If so, and if someone could generate them for the finalized episodes, perhaps they could be divided up among volunteers to take a few episodes each and proofread them along with the video/audio.

But yeah… I certainly wouldn’t wanna handle a behemoth task like that for the whole series, using the methods I usually use for my own stuff.

My stool is dark!

Replace Grievous’ coughs with belches and burps. And his lightsabers with beer bottles.

When Yoda surveys the fallen Jedi in the Temple after Order 66, he has a mild break from reality when he notices brain matter from a young apprentice and chuckles before saying, “Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.”

No, I’d have to meticulously redo most of the audio side of the projects, which I’m frankly not willing to do.

But I do provide lossless audio output for all my projects, and this is how others have made some foreign language tracks, by editing these.

Sound good to me! I’ll see how they play within the short screentime for that snippet.

Hehe, yeah, I like that direction. Something like…

Trooper: Who are you? (or What is this ship doing here?, or something like that)
3PO: I am here to negotiate release of a prisoner.
Trooper: We don’t negotiate w–
Rey destroys their lives in the blink of an eye with a deadly sci-fi weapon
3PO: It seems diplomacy is not our specialty. (or something to the effect that negotiations will be harder because of her behavior; Seems that negotiating is not our objective.)
Rey: Where are the others?
3PO: They haven’t come back (generated with AI in case it doesn’t match what we just heard)

I loved those CD-ROMs so much.

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^ It sets up 3PO not recognizing his “best friend” when he returns without his memory. I don’t really see changing it.

And how’s this for another idea at that little snippet?

Trooper: What’s your operating number?

3PO: Oh, I don’t have one. I’m just here to cause trouble.

Trooper: Then why are you–what?"

Hey, glad you could join us here on the forum!

That clip was made with that script in mind, with some changes. It seems to be received well, and I do like how it emphasizes that whatever his motives up to that point, by now his power-mania has enveloped him. However, it seems that removing his mention of overthrowing the Emperor may be missed. And it would feed into that narrative of Anakin going mad with power. He makes a similar move in ESB, pitching the same idea to Luke.

If it had been feasible in the earlier scene where Palpatine pronounces him ‘Darth Vader’ to remove the idea that Palpatine has not actually mastered the ability to cheat death, then removing that dialogue on Mustafar would make more sense and paint Anakin/Vader as enjoying a sense of righteous loyalty to Palpatine.

But, it can’t really be removed without gutting the scene and obscuring his motives to the point that it suffers for it. So… it was worth pursuing, but it seems better to leave that part out (meaning in).

Hey that’s pretty cool! And if anyone would like to create such alternate audio tracks I’d be glad to include them and nudge them into sync with any future project updates.

Here is a different take on Anakin and Padme on Mustafar, modeled on an idea from the aforementioned redditor. The key idea is to emphasize the disconnect between the two, as Padme petitions him to focus on love and he persistently emphasizes power and control. For your consideration.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T5gYsaiUCXGLyS_ilZ0db_4jA_C0wxdo/view?usp=share_link

I love this project, big fan. Please use AI to replace all characters with their original actors, for tomorrow. Thanks!

Message received about the younglings, Kenobi notwithstanding. I’ll have to think a bit about the “cheating death” dialogue, but I’m inclined to leave it as is. LOE has become an established offering, and so it’s probably better to let it be for the most part.

If I moved scenes around so his nightmare is shown earlier, I could keep his meeting with Yoda so that we do understand his motivation clearly without it coming up at all at his Sith dubbing. But again, LOE is partially defined by moving the nightmare to later.

I’m working on what I hope will be, and intend as, the final update to this project.

[Hold for laughter.]

Here’s what I’m planning, including a few ideas from redditor HighGroundIsOP.

• Given the Kenobi show, I’m relenting on youngling stuff. (The Ep2 scene with Yoda will remain out, though.) Since Kenobi makes a meal out of Anakin unambiguously killing kids in a more graphic, direct onscreen manner than ROTS, I’m going to reinstate the scene itself as well as two other uses of the term. Also, since the child actor himself lent his voice for Ascendant, that’s an additional factor.

• For the main version, but not for the alternate ‘Padme dies’ version, I’m removing dialogue during Anakin’s Sith knighting about working together to cheat death. Given TROS, omitting this smooths out one’s thought process in the world of fridge logic. And, it sets Anakin up as someone who is loyal and believes he’s aligned with the right person. Even leaves open an old-school headcanon about Vader’s prolonged existence literally depending on Palpatine. This does, however, require losing the line, “Just help me save Padme’s life.” This reverts to an earlier version of LOE basically. (I left these lines in the alternate version because even though they wrinkle TROS, the touchpoint about Anakin’s ironic obsession with saving Padme is too valuable to cut.)

• Taking the redditor’s suggestion about Anakin and Padme on Mustafar. The idea is to have Anakin consistently respond to Padme’s pleas by highlighting his power.

• I’d like to see Anakin offer his thoughts to Padme about feeling lost and wanting more, but because I don’t have a nice segue into the scene without the nightmare, it’d likely be an awkwardly short scene with nowhere to be placed.

• One of the big ideas of LOE to begin with was to marry Q2’s use of ‘Other Boleyn Girl’ footage to depict Padme surviving on Alderaan and Corigar’s restructure to defer Anakin’s nightmare until after political motives have been established. However, I wonder if the order of scenes I am using for the updated alternate version would be better for the main version also. We’d get the nightmare first as in ROTS, then the opera scene, then Yoda’s counseling session along with the rest of the string of talking scenes about political factors. Really not sure, as it’d be a big change to LOE but I feel it’d help the movie. Seems like I’m leaning toward it, though.

JEDIT: Here’s the order of scenes again, for reference:

Anakin learns Padme is pregnant
Greivous arrives on Utupau and speaks with Sidious
Nightmare, Anakin walks out of bedroom
Opera scene (excised mention of Greivous intel, since it’s not followed up with for a while)
Yoda’s counseling session
Anakin misses briefing and Obi-Wan warns him of Palpatine
Palpatine appoints Anakin to Jedi Council
Council doesn’t like this
Bail’s apartment deleted scene
Anakin is asked to spy on Palpatine
Jedi traffic scene
Anakin and Padme talk about their political views and have a bad time
Troops setting up on Khshyyyk, and LOE continues more or less the same from here until the ending (same as current alternate version ending)