Hal 9000

Here's a quick rewrite, if it's any help. Just spit-balling; not trying to say it's any better necessarily. Also, I think the term "intergalactic" implies that they operate across multiple galaxies. 'Intragalactic' might sound somewhat strange, so maybe a different title would fit better. 

It is a time of foreboding for the galaxy. After centuries of peace, many isolated star systems have been attacked by the intergalactic Slave Trade Federation.

Queen Amidala of the peaceful planet Naboo has managed to escape her home system with the assistance of two Jedi, guardians of peace and justice in the Galactic Republic.

To prevent further oppression from the Federation, she must venture to the galactic capital to plead for intervention to save her people and restore peace to the galaxy....

Awesome. I'll play with this when I get the chance. Still not totally sold on it, but we will see how it fares. 

You may want to delete that information before it causes trouble. 

The problem is going to be finding the audio. Does anyone happen to have a copy of the Japanse DVD or BluRay? Otherwise this idea hits a roadblock.

I'll have to do a mockup and see how it flies. Thanks for the tip!

I wouldn't mind if Vader appears in Rogue One with Hayden kickin' around inside the suit, if he really wants to. But Hayden in the sequel trilogy doesn't compute.

Well, it's all over FaceBook. It's just a planet name, nothing I'd consider a problem. There's nothing in the video that hasn't already been in the trailers. I'd certify it as HARMLESS.

I do not believe an edit has removed only that scene, but I think the Lone Gungan Edit opens with the Queen's ship escaping the blockade, skipping the scene you mention.

EDIT: Also, why would you want to remove that sequence?

A tour of [CENSORED], eh? I guess I'll just have to wonder what the title was. 

"Don't click on it. Don't click on it."

"Echo Base, I've found them. Repeat: I've found them."

Even Rogue Two understands what an echo is.

moviefreakedmind said:

The only people who are actually opposed to the release of the OOT are a few losers on TFN. 

 True dat.

Yeah, R2 said "ruh-roh!" a few times.

StarWars.com said:

Lucas, unlike us, was not content with the original final product, finding the puppetry and costumes stiff, unconvincing, and generally a far cry from the big band performance he wished it to be (something time did not allow).

 Very nice.

I have copies of Frink's TPM and AOTC ridiculous edits. Can you upload ROTS?

*dodges a punch*

Drakul said:

Numenorians

 Haha!

And V4's upscaled stuff should look better, so id say get the highest resolution your hardware can play. I hope you enjoy them!

Sounds great! The beauty of SW prequel fan edits is the buffet of options to suit your tastes. I know that, for example, mixing and matching my and L8wrtr's edits doesn't cause any continuity problems. I even made a spreadsheet of which edits make certain changes that would affect their continuity with other edits!

You'll definiey want to get V3 for now. DrDre is understandably taking a while mixing the PT deleted scenes into his workflow of OOT preservation. Even then, it'll take a while to encode and upload. It's 100% finished, save for the upscaled deleted scenes. 

It sounds like you've informed yourself about the content of the edits, but be advised that my Ep3 is the most controversial of the set, and there have been a few people who enjoyed 1 and 2 only to stumble over 3. Depends on what you're looking for. Though, to my mind, L8 is a great set of edits if mine leave you wanting, and either are great lead-ins to a viewing of the Despecialized OT in advance of TFA.

(Verbosity FTW, once again)

Edit: Oh, and schorman13 announced that he is doing a V2 of his preservation right after I announced V4 of my edits. I can proceed with Ep1 regardless once DrDre is finished with its deleted scenes. Schorman is doing Ep3 first, so I may upload mine out of sequence. It'll be worth the wait for the archival edition, as I'd hate to leave quality resources on the table.

If I, for some reason, decided to do edits of the OT and beyond and continue adopting EU titles for them, I might go with these...

(Episode I: Cloak Of Deception

Episode II: The Approaching Storm

Episode III: Labyrinth Of Evil)

Episode IV: Rebel Dawn

Episode V: Shadows Of The Empire 

Episode VI: Heir To The Jedi

Episode VII: The Force Unleashed

mverta said:

There is truly no force in the universe more powerful than the human ability to rationalize.

 I was going to post a sarcastic remark about us not knowing our collective ass from a Sarlacc pit, but perhaps I should clarify that I don't disagree with you wholesale, but wanted to temper your point about everything modern being bad and older things usually being better.

Films, like anything from the past we remember, is subject to a telescope effect. We remember fewer things the farther back we look, like how oldies stations play the better music of the past, and why we remember The Epic of Gilgamesh but not the other ancient near eastern stories told around that time. 

The entire post is one big reference. 

He was correcting your grammar, commoner.

I get the cynical take on post-Disney Star Wars, and you're right that capitalism is the driving force and films aren't made the same way they were. As long as TFA is on the same level as or better than ROTJ, I'll be happy. 

Preserving the original Star Wars (Trilogy) is on a whole different level of importance, but I'm still looking forward to having a bunch of new Star Wars content to parse and enjoy. If it's not all that great, it won't hurt anything to have it out there. But I'll bet it'll be a net positive, as far as enjoying myself. I'm not a serious film guy or anything, so I'm just looking for an interesting story to follow.

That certainly sounds worth waiting for. Luckily for me, Ep1 of my edits don't use this and can proceed. I'm glad you're doing ROTS next, so it'll probably be there when I'm done with my Ep1. Then I'll just have to wait for AOTC.

Thanks for the detailed information. V1 looks flawless to my eyes, so V2 ought to be really great. 

Can you say more about what'll be different for V2? I'm rearing to export v4 of my edits, with your version as the source. Is it worth holding off to use V2?

No, man, thanks for pointing out the bad cut! And the "quips" I was talking about was the little subtitles during the logo that said things like, "Escape From the Planet of Boring" where it usually says "A News Broadcasting Corporation."