Hal 9000

I don’t disagree with you, Frink, about any of the specific instances of clear trolling you cite. I just hate to see people being told that their opinion about a set of seven movies is invalid. I think there’s something to be said for the opinion that the prequels feel more legitimate than TFA because they sprung from the mind of Lucas. I don’t hold it, but I think there’s something to discuss there without shutting them down.
Trolls are one thing, but it just seems like we’ve been going overboard. We’re feeding them, really. Let the trolls go hungry until they leave. I’d rather say to the well behaved newbies, “You’re an idiot! Let’s get a drink.”
Carrying this poorly thought out metaphor further, with OT.com being like the Cantina, I suppose TF.N could be see as the prequel era Jedi Council: rigid and blinded.

Can we be the Ewok village? Roast the trolls over open coals and invite others to join the tribe? Eat human flesh and dance around?

I’ve been here since 2003. I was a mere 13 years old back then. The site’s purpose was to get the original, unaltered Star Wars trilogy properly released and preserved. That was the goal we rallied behind. We didn’t require an orthodoxy interrogation to join and participate. When people started doing edits or even preservation of prequel material, we didn’t tell them we thought their efforts were a waste of time.
Nowadays, there’s quite a bit of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba around here. Someone comes into our cantina and we feel the need to announce that we don’t like them. That is uncalled for most of the time. There have been trolls as there always have, but I don’t like the bum’s rush people seem to be getting lately.
And, Frink. I love ya, but you’re the most obvious offender of the above right now. The more you tighten your grip, the more young users will slip through your fingers [into the forum]. (Hmm… That metaphor didn’t work at all!) I like the humor Frink brings to the table, and even half of the smartassery. But we are painting ourselves as an unwelcoming place full of fundamentalists.

I understand there’s been some trolling lately, but surely we can stop harassing people for giving their opinions as they differ from ours.
TV’s Frink, please try to play nice and let the forum be a little less like walking into the Mos Eisley cantina.

I used a modified version of smudger9’s crawl template for FCPX.

Yeah, Myspleen and FanEdit.info.

Ahem I thought it was a nice touch to get the same actress back for Mon Mothma as Episode III. That was my first takeaway from the trailer, hoping that they hadn’t thrown a third one into the mix.
The aesthetic of classic '77 era Star Wars and lack of Jedi and lightsabers excites me. The movie doesn’t even have to be all that great for me to really enjoy something like this. It’s not part of the ‘saga,’ and I feel it will be freer to explore without fearing it will disappoint us.
Should be a ton of fun.

More like if Han Solo weighed fat hundred pounds.

NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OioTXEKF870

Two quick thoughts. During my initial viewing, I felt the lack of any political exposition, considering how important it was to the prequels’ story. Not saying I wanted a ton, but I did want a bit more than we got. Just the basics of the history or basis for the First Order and Resistance. As the first follow-up to the story since ROTJ, it’s an elephant in the room to go so far to avoid any and all political stuff.
Also, it just seems like Kylo Ren let Rey beat him. No, it’s like Adam Driver just let Daisy Ridley arm wrestle him into shorting out the saber. Just subjective on my part; the momentum of the scene gets you to root for Rey so you don’t really mind if her victory isn’t totally believable.

Wow, thanks for sharing. And welcome to the world of fan editing!
That aspect of LOE is something I don’t think I’ve really found in any other edit, of trying to somewhat replicate and approximate the earlier ideas before they did reshoots to emphasize Padme’s impending doom. Corigar’s edit sort of did this, and I thought it dovetailed well with the idea Q2 went with of showing Padme to survive the events of the film.
If you’re curious, I’d recommend the chapter on ROTS from ‘The Secret History of Star Wars.’ You can also listen to the commentary track on the edit itself.
Really good to hear people enjoying these cuts.

http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

Scott109 said:

I agree that a lot of the dialogue was poorly written and that the film could have been edited much better. LucasFilm should have hired Hal9000 as an editor.

Only if I could go back in time to do it. Aside from being 12 years old at the time, I would have been a terrible editor. It’s only after steeping myself in the fan editing done by others over the course of years that I approached AOTC ready to actually do something good.

My favorite way to watch through the saga is one film per week. It makes it into a serial adventure.

Rey’s nightmare revisited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L58oh3wIiNw

Now that we have Ep7 (and soon Ep8 and Ep9) to continue the story, I have lost all reservations about recommending plain ol’ release order. Doesn’t even matter whether you’re a newcomer or veteran.

Edit: Comment removed temporarily. Hadn’t read that page, just noted that it seemed to be a wrapper for FE.org's content.

I don’t get it. Is he trying to pretend he’s always been (or is at all) affiliated with Fanedit.org??

Scott109 said:

Since Queen Amidala never mentions the senate in this scene, the first two lines of the above dialogue are incoherent and should have been cut in your fan edit.

Eh, I don’t think so. She mentions that the Chancellor (of the Senate) has sent ambassadors to command them to settle their dispute. It seems appropriate to hear one of them say something about the Senate not allowing them to do what they’re doing.

Also, Episode III doesn’t ever refer to him by Tyrannus, so I felt it kept this character simpler and easier to latch onto since he doesn’t even appear until halfway through Episode II.

towne32 said:
Dooku’s incredibly limited screen time in the film

This is the exact reason why I removed his Sith name, which was only ever used twice.

Why on Earth…

Start with the OT, and then when TPM comes around serve a progressive dinner.
Start with some assorted KFC chicken parts and some sides, with Pepsi.
When they land on Tatooine half an hour later, break out the Taco Bell tacos and cheesey fiesta potatoes, and Mountain Dew.
Order a pizza from Pizza The Hutt during the podrace so you can crack it open when they land on Coruscant, eating one slice per boring meeting, keeping a glass of Diet Pepsi maintained.
When they return to Naboo, eat some more frakking KFC and as much Pepsi as your body will allow.
With any luck, you’ll spend AOTC and ROTS in the bathroom or quietly having a seizure in the corner.

I think TFA is the sort of film Kershner meant when he expressed hesitancy to direct ESB because, ~“a second one would always just be a second one.”

I’m as close to drunk as I get, meaning a bottle of cider.
OOOoooOoOOOOoooOOOOOOOO!

Warbler said:

I find your accusation of lack of faith offensive!

Hehe.
Not sure why I’m feeling compelled to thrown my two cents in, but I agree that the United States never was a formally Christian nation, though culturally the religion has had widespread influence that’s been in relative decline lately. I suppose it’s normal for some of the group to be radicalized, same as any sociological shift away from affluence. I agree with the Madison quote above that the government and religion are at their best when kept apart, and I’ve given up cringing at every misguided thing that my fellows try to do to exert influence on government or legal grounds under the broad umbrella of American Christianity.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Oh, and… I know someone who can’t stand the word “moist.”