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Obi-Wan said he trained Vader in ANH, not Luke's father.

I got my tickets on Fandango about an hour and a half before the trailer aired, since I happened to check. 7PM December 17th!

Just that I wondr if it will comment on it. I saw a panel months ago with Ben finding a lost child Luke and telling him he knew his father.

As coy as the power that be have been so far, I'm gambling that the trailer won't really spoil anything for me. 
Rumor has it there will be mass screenings at 7PM the night before. I'm gonna have the two main theaters near me loaded and ready in case one has that.

And a third thought: the poster strikes me as very photoshopy. I wonder if perhaps they painted the elements and composited them digitally. I'm not a graphic artist by any means, so I'm just wondering. I have been avoiding spoilers, but I am very curious why Luke is missing from it!

TFA trailer #3 to air tomorrow, Monday night during halftime of the NFL game. Presumably it will be posted online at the same time. Also, advance tickets will go on sale afterward. Very exciting.

I have been saving Shattered Empire for after I watch ROTJ in November as part of our "journey to TFA," but I'm very curious if Owen and Beru are depicted as being aware that Anakin survived and became Darth Vader. I believe the Legends consensus was that our heroes at the end of Episode III took Anakin for dead, explaining why they didn't do a very thorough job hiding Luke. Obi-Wan didn't find out that Vader lived on until he saw it on the news one day at the bar, and I presume he just told Owen and Beru that Anakin died in the purge. (He may or may not have mentioned Vader since, again, he believed he was dead.)

Even if all this is the case, it still would be possible for Ben to tell them the truth later at some point. But to me, Owen and Beru's conversation in ANH makes much more sense if I suppose they believe Anakin died along with the bulk of the Jedi. 

Sounds awesome. Thanks for the update. Can you refer me to any information about the DTS audio? Is it 5.1, or greater?

The second track merely removed the added music over the pod race, for those that prefer it without.

Yeah, evidently having the file fit on a BD25 doesn't mean it'll necessarily fit when muxed to the right format. However, we found that omitting the alternate audio track allowed it to fit.

Yeah, for sure. I'd like to do an encode with Emanswfan's source someday, but it'll still be V4 as you have it.

I used the 'plot to overthrow the Chancellor' scene in v3, so yes. It lets us see that Obi-Wan is in the know and involved with this stuff, giving a little more weight to his later dialogue about the Chancellor being evil and getting defensive about the idea of taking over the Republic as Anakin sees it. 

The other scene you mention needs some FX wizardry, and would require careful editing of later scenes between Palpaying and Anakin, so I never really thought about using it. Upon reviewing it, it seems very unfinished and "on-set," with poor line deliveries. I think they did well to cut it and spread its pieces across other scenes. 

Thanks for the question!

There should be all three... I'll look into it later today.

Extract the archive in your file system, not inside JDownloader.

I just got word: COD's listing has been updated for V4 at FanEdit.info. 

EDIT: Remember, if JDownloader prompts you for a password, extract the archives in your filesystem rather than inside JDownloader.

I haven't got AOTC's deleted scenes yet, but I plan to upload a torrent of them before this is over. I'd use a proxy rip of them in the meantime.

COD has not yet been updated by the admin of .info, so those links will not work because I had to delete v3 to make room for v4 on Mega. Check back later and look at the date next to the listing. I'm not sure why the torrents would give you trouble, other than perhaps not being well seeded.

Onepack Nun said:

The prequels are quite good, actually.

 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YzSHIYxdRs

The admin hasn't yet updated the listing for V4, but FanEdit.info is the place. FE.org does not host download links for the edits they list, but the .info is an unaffiliated site where many of them are available.

Also, Myspleen is a private bittorrent tracker where some of these odd things can be found.

Do you know exactly what the file size cutoff is for taking an MKV and authoring a BD25 disc? Looks like COD was a bit big, but I'd like to keep 2 and 3 under since there's no alternate audio to exclude! I would not do this if they didn't already happen to be so close to 25GB at max bit rate anyway; it's worth it to lower the bit rate insignificantly if they'll fit into the disk. If it were closer to 30GB, I'd just encode at max settings.

I hope not. BD25 holds 25GB, and the full folder is 24.14GB on my Mac which reports file size in base ten. If you're right, one could just remove the alternate audio stream and be good to go. 

Drakul said:

Aaaw shhhhh.... !

 Don't worry, V3 is totally fine and you shouldn't kick yourself for seeing it. Besides, Episodes II and III won't be coming immediately. If you've already downloaded V3, don't wait for V4. If you like it, just make a point to snag V4 at some point for keeps.

I don't understand why they had Luke and Leia's mom revealed to be a Queen... of somewhere totally separate from Alderaan, and then later step down and become a Senator instead. 

towne32 said:

V4 is out!

That it is. The two HD versions have hit the 'Spleen, and will be put up on FE.org/info when the DVD5 version is ready too. 

Thanks again for taking the time and thought to give feedback. 

The scene with Padme's family has some good hints that Padme is also falling for Anakin, rather than Anakin pining over a total Stoic who won't give him the time of day. It's a little odd, but I think it's an effective inclusion, with the precedent of being used by the Phantom Editor.

Dooku is hardly built up in this film at all, and we don't get introduced to him until more than halfway through the film. Removing his alias Darth Tyrannus removes an ineffective red herring and makes it a little easier to latch onto the character with what little we get of him. Removing the Separatist leaders' dialogue helps center that scene on Dooku. 

I did keep the picnic frolicking scene, and I think it's good to keep as much of the romance as I could, as long as what remains works. It's a tough call with this, of course.

And the line "according to my information" has been addressed for V4. 

The 2004 version is unbelievably better than 2011's. 

Leoj said:

New trailer: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfeWNZqVYsE

 Ventress? Really? 

No matter how many times I tried, I just couldn't get into the Clone Wars 2008 series. I'd prefer Rebels avoid dredging up stale remnants of it. I still don't like the idea of previously unheard of Inquisitors doing the dirty work Vader should be doing, either. I hope Ezra gets killed eventually. 

I'll tune in and I'm sure there'll be plenty to enjoy. I'm glad that so far the story has been relatively isolated from the "big" events. But I can't help but feel that it is sort of gumming up the continuity by having all these tie-ins and Forrest Gump type encounters.