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Oh yeah, that’s much better. Thanks for doing this.

Nice! Just wondering if you plan on revisiting AOTC, or if that one’s finished. What you’ve already done passes all scrutiny I’ve put it through at any rate. 😉

Seems like it would remove the “we’re making our landing approach at lightspeed?!” thing.
Would you remove Leia’s line, “Han, how?” and “If I told you you wouldn’t like it”?

In this version it is implied that it gets multiple shots out of “the Sun” it has drained, so something different is going on to prepare for the second shot than the first.

NeverarGreat said:

As I reflect, I agree that the Leia spacewalk scene cannot be separated from her ejection into space in the first place by more than one brief scene, not the two TLJ separates them by.
And I love the idea of cutting from the shot of the Jedi tree burning after the Yoda scene to the establishing shot of Crait right before Leia tells them to close the door.

Thanks for sharing that! Your experience of the theatrical TFA is pretty close to my own, and the simple idea of moving Hosnian Prime’s destruction to after Han’s death seemed to be a linchpin for a lot (though certainly not all) of my issues with the movie. (Well, I guess it’s fair to say that it handles most of the problems that bother me even after I have settled into accepting the movie for what it is going for.)

As I’ve said before, V1 was lackluster, and I’ve been thrilled with the turnout of V2 due to some incredible peers who swept in. I am very glad others are enjoying it. Prequel edits are one thing, and it’s impossible to find one that hits the spot for any given viewer, but TFA:R V2(.1) is the outworking of a single (or maybe like 3) elegant idea(s).

Good change list! Really looking forward to what you produce.

Very glad you enjoyed the project! I can’t speak much to the special effects, and I’m just as awed as you are by what Sir Ridley and NeverarGreat did.
Off the top of my head, the only special effect I did was recoloring the star sucking up after Hux’s speech, and that was just a color correction tweak.
I’m not sure about the changes proposed here, or why they would be necessary. Part of this particular project’s stated goal is to stick close to the theatrical except for the few areas targeted for alteration.
Thanks for the feedback and welcome!

I’d be okay with a percentage based ignore dial.

I.e., “ignore 63% of _____’s posts.”

Last Christmastime, I sat down and watched the whole Holiday Special with three boys aged 8 to 13 that we were babysitting. An unironic good time was had by all. Everyone was engaged from start to finish, which is a little unusual for them.
The night gave rise to a few in-jokes based off the film and our nonsensical commentary.

10/10, would watch again

In answer to this thread’s title, my answer is perpetually “just a few more.”

I like the idea. Whatever doesn’t sell BURNS.

I can’t help but think the movie would be much stronger if most of those fan servicey things were not included. But, those things are the impetus for such a film, so it always would have been that way.
Star Wars needs to start branching out and defining itself apart from what came before, and not in the way TLJ feaux-tried to, if it’s going to be viable going forward (artistically, not financially, of course).

And FFS, this is just my opinion. Just needs to be said around here.

I assume he means that both the Rebels and the Empire are a bunch of white dudes.

Seems like we are trying to thread the needle with fine points about this movie and it’s characrers and somehow wound up defending explicit misogyny in the process.

I’m not outraged by this edit. Indeed, I chuckled at the idea, perceiving the inherent joke and enjoying the dig at the people who brought us TLJ. The edit itself is a ‘television hour’-length parody, though whether of the movie or of its detractors isn’t easy to tell. Either way, it seemed mean-spirited to me as I flipped through it briefly.

My point is, it’s fine in my book to get a laugh out of this, but it’s no cause to defend actual misogyny in the world. We get enough of that irrational thought in politics.

What I DID unequivocally enjoy, however, is the subsequent 15-minutes ‘Androgenous Cut,’ featuring no humans at all.

Tobar said:

Rian just posted this series of images on twitter a few hours ago.

I’m betting Pablo or someone in the story group handed him those books when he was writing the script. The handling of the Force in the film always sounded very accurate and informed from an EU perspective to me. Though I never got around to reading those specific books(THE SACRED TEXTS).

I’d like to see the “Legends” banner replaced with one that says “the SACRED TEXTS”

Tobar said:

Looks like this could be the fan-service-movie some of the older Star Wars fans wanted from Episode VIII

^ My thought exactly. It probably doesn’t have a subtitle file, and you cropped the subtitles off in the conversion.

In the original file, do the subtitles appear in frame or inside ‘black bars’ beneath the frame?

Myspleen is current, and will be for the upcoming final version. You can also seek out a Reddit post of mine for a different way to get them.

Mean-spirited, too. They kill Leia, but they still have a lingering shot of her corpse in space, cutting away before she wakes up.
It’s a joke, just not a very funny one.

Episode IX
EPILOGUE

General Leia Organa has lost the will to live. After melting into the Force, the Resistance is without any hope as the First Order pursues them to the ends of the galaxy.

Ben Solo, the feared leader of darkness, is obsessed with finding the girl who defied him, and will not rest until Rey, the first of a new Jedi Order, has been destroyed.

Now, each side is prepared to fight each other until one or the other is summarily destroyed, thus ending STAR WARS, unless the defeated party should happen to rise again from an obscure part of the galaxy in a few decades’ time…

I can already feel being held to the fire for keeping the spacewalk scene.

I would expect to fade in the nighttime version somewhat, not going from 100% of one to 100% of the other. It might not work, just something to try.