clutchins said:
I'm a member of at least three other forums that are not nearly as friendly and even familial as OT.com.
This is what I think of when people around here are informed about the rules:
Any updates to be had? I'm interested chiefly in your hoped-for rescore of the introduction of the clone army.
So, there won't be separate 'regular' and 'retro' releases, but a single hybrid version? Sounds good to me. Give each scene the treatment it merits.
Good to hear. I recently moved from a 7 year old machine to a 15" MacBook Pro myself!
So, are you hoping to finish your PT regrade by the time TFA debuts, or were you referring to test clips?
EDIT: Sorry, I was making fun of SuperShadow, when it was Secret History of Star Wars that we were talking about. Disregard!
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darklordoftech, you're correct in stating the officially sanctioned view of the order of works. According to the new canon, HTTJ is shoehorned into the timeframe before the SW comic series. On the other hand, the contents of HTTJ have their intended place at a later date, which had to be twisted to accommodate continuity concerns.
darklordoftech said:
Heir to the Jedi takes place before any of the Marvel comics.
I believe that's a retcon. Heir to the Jedi features Luke talking with his girlfriend about looking back on himself two years ago as immature, and they bond over this shared experience. He was talking about how he felt right after the Battle of Yavin. Luke's character throughout the book implies to me that significant time has passed for him. Shoehorning the book into what I'm sure amounts to a few days between ANH and the comics cheats the book of its due.
I'm starting to think an overseen nuEU (now featuring unbridled canonicity) will be more frustrating than just leaving contradictions ambiguous. It's sorta like how, from what I've heard, the new Marvel movies make the world an improbable and terrifying place because New York continues to be pummeled by canonized danger every other week in one continuous narrative.
But, I will just save my mental work for novels and not pay comics further mind. I'm just not a follower of comics, and haven't enjoyed what they've put out for SW so far.
Tobar said:
Modern Marvel stinks.
No kidding.
I'm far from a comic aficionado, but I'm less than thrilled about the character and story developments with the sum of the new Marvel stuff. (To be fair, I hadn't read much of anything prior, and was hoping for something substantial and carefully-thought-out, in light of the "canon/legends" announcement that framed it.) It all feels so unlikely and forced, with no real connecting tissue with the films they are supposedly bridging. I think I'll have to treat the new EU the way I did with the old one: major adult novels are head canon, and most of anything else isn't.
The brutal Boba Fett strikes me as very strange in light of rumors that Disney/LFL/whoever were contemplating how to make Fett work as a sympathetic protagonist of his own film. The story group screwed up with the Marvel comics contradicting Heir to the Jedi, in which Luke says he hadn't heard Ben's voice during the two years since the Death Star.
I'll come back for Shattered Empire, but will bow out otherwise. I just don't like them, y'know? Part of it is just because I'm not a big fan of the medium.
Someone posted a cap of a single page from the upcoming Shattered Empire (not a spoiler) in which Old Ben informs a child Luke that he was a friend of his father's, flatly contradicting the dinner scene in ANH where Luke exclaims, "He knew my father?!"
I'll tell them, then.
The conversation beginning at 10:26 had me rolling at the end.
Ha, now I have an image of Iger's surprised face when Lucas informs him that he wants to direct Episode 7. "Listen, George, I'm gonna stop you right there."
I always pictured Bob Iger closing the deal with Lucas in his office, pouring on the usual sweet talk. Lucas reminds him about the story treatments that come with the deal, which Iger takes and sets down on the desk. Once Lucas signs the deal, Iger politely ushers him on his way. Turning back in to face the desk, he takes notice of the treatments. He pauses for a moment, and tosses them in the trash bin.
See if the Wayback machine can let you peek back at Supershadow. He had them before Luca$ got them and sold them to Di$ney.
EDIT: Supershadow.com/starwars/episode7/plot.html is the address, which you'll need to plug into web.archive.org. It's worth it!
My tale would be very similar to DominicCobb's. At 15, ROTS was a big experience. The first thing I did when I got the DVD was to rip it and start tinkering with it. But in the theater at 2:30 AM, James Earl Jones as Darth Vader expressing concern for Padmé's safety was chilling. Even at that time, I was aware that Ep3 would probably not seem as good after the initial viewing, so I told my mom and chauffeur, "Before I hear what anyone else says about the movie, I enjoyed it. The Emperor stole the show."
Since sequels are what we really wanted in the first place, hopefully the existence of the prequels allowed for all the mistakes to be made and catalogued in order to have an amazing sequel trilogy.
Did word get out to your fellow attendees as to your identity?
I was contemplating it for Ep2. (Ep1 I added grain like he did for his, and Ep3 never looked wrong to me.) However, the BluRay (with tweaked color settings) still looks better to my (highly subjective) eyes than either kk650's or schorman's Ep2. I understand that DVNR has evidently been applied for the BluRay release of this very early digital movie, but I'm not really convinced the HDTV streams we have actually look better. The BR is a higher quality (size) source in theory to begin from, too.
Well, that's certainly good to know. Thanks for reporting back about it. Am I correct in understanding that selecting that setting fixed the issue of bizarre results when authoring to a BR disc?
Would you have any desire to give ESB and ROTJ similar treatment? The 1997 color grading will always be what feels right to me. I've been so happy with Harmy's color grading that I was able to use for 90% of my "Custom ANH SE" because it thoroughly ditches the Lowry grading.
Super awesome.
The ring theory, even if totally valid, is not a counterpoint to the assessment that the prequels suck.
Yeah, sure GL arranged for some visual and story mirroring. He's never been shy about that.
That could be very useful. Thanks for sharing!
Neglify said:
you should take the Oxford Capacity Analysis test.
