Hal 9000

But isn’t BB8 also flying with Poe in the SKB assault?

It didn’t really stand out too much to me, compared to SKB sticking in my craw. During the movie I assumed there was a mystical reason R2 woke up when he did. (Did Luke reach out and wake him back up? Did he detect Rey?) And I still suspect the lame-o answer of “he just then overheard they were looking for a map that he happened to have from the Death Star” might be a cover to preserve a future plot development. I also assumed Luke left the remainder of the map with R2, with contingencies for letting people find him.

TFA introduces the Starkiller rather abruptly, halfway in. It would have been very easy to drop a line in the crawl. I wonder why they didn’t, and seemingly preferred to introduce it as they did.
That’s part of why I felt SKB was tacked on.

Posted January 21st by SilverWook as a sticky thread:

SilverWook said:

It’s been slightly over a month. If you haven’t seen the movie by now, I honestly don’t know what to tell you. 😉

Most of you have been pretty darn amazing about respecting this for many months, and that’s an impressive feat around here!

Keep in mind the rule still applies to any and all Episode 8 discussion. Have a nice day!

My biggest complaint about TFA is the constant references and recapitulations, particularly as manifested in Starkiller Base.
If George Lucas was writing and directing the sequel trilogy, it would have been at least as equally pandering in that regard, and have a lot less to redeem it.
I was, and still am, glad that Bob Iger immediately put Lucas’ treatments through the shredder. After they shook hands and Lucas had left his office, I’m sure that was the first thing that happened.

JEDIT: I really don’t know how you people post here all the time without making typos like I do.

jeanie90 said:

Can you please send me the Links to this edit? I watched it in 720p in 2014 and it was amazing. I would like to watch it again but I can’t find it on fenedit.info any more.

PM sent. Until FanEdit.info comes back, anyone can PM me for a link to the .dlc files.

He’s the reason I’d only consider using pre-2004 OT audio as sources for anything.

“I hate that guy.”

Fantastic post and I like your proposed crawl.
If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your crawl for ROTJ?

It threw me for a loop the first time I saw TFA, and I pessimisticly assumed it was a mistake. I’ve gotten used to seeing it that way, so can appreciate it as a deliberate choice. I like that each crawl, especially ESB, is slightly different. That’s why my PT edits’ crawls are each slightly different colors, angles, and levels of zoom.

Swazzy said:

(I’m gonna have to do that now, aren’t I)

“You catch on pretty qui–”
Ouch! Ric smacked the back of my head.

And ROTS, if that matters to you.

moviefreakedmind said:

I’m going to make this my first viewing of Episode III (in any form) in nearly 10 years.

I’d be interested in your thoughts and impressions, both what’s different and just the resultant film you’ll be watching.

Reading Bloodline now. It certainly fleshes out the political landscape, which is something I found wanting in TFA. At least, upon first viewing.
I know it’s an opinion against the grain, but I like that about this book so far. It feels like the Cloak of Deception to TPM, The Approaching Storm to AOTC, or Labyrinth of Evil to ROTS, but centered around Leia. Perhaps we’ll get lead-in type novels in coming years from Luke and Han’s perspectives.

Hayden’s ghost is godawful, but nothing tops Jedi Rocks.

You know what? Nevermind, because it’s not even true. Not true at all. Just nevermind, and forget all about it.

JEDIT:

Anyone know how to format, in pretty much any application, justified text so that the increased spacing is in between words rather than letters within words?
The Star Wars crawls keep the kerning within words consistent, and spaces out the words in order to achieve justified text. I can’t seem to figure out how to replicate this, and can only justify the normal way with letters spaced out rather than words.
Thanks in advance.

Missing PSYCHO_DAYV, are we?

He’s got ahold of you, despite how it seems. Accept yourself as He does and go from there. Praying for your academic efforts, that the unhelpful weight holding you down can be shrugged off.

Yeah, probably so. Also, does it make sense for SKB to explode into a star since in this proposed version it would have already discharged its stellar energy?

Was scanning over the movie, and noticed something I hadn’t before. When Finn first meets Leia, Poe references the weapon “that destroyed the Hosnian system.”
In order to remove the line, the scene has to look like this, with a non-ideal succession of three quick shots.
https://vimeo.com/166130938

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Stumbled onto this on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThlaSITXROk

Someone was going to be working on isolating score from the films. Was that you, Smithers? This scene would be a good first one to do, since it’d be good to keep the foley even if the music gets changed.

And here’s an update draft. I do like it better this way, keeping the original flow of that section more similar to the original. Not too bad.
https://vimeo.com/165767941