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Edit: too spoilerific. 

It's not night.

Just finished the 'Empire and Rebellion' duology in anticipation of Heir to the Jedi. Hearing about the supposed plot leaks about TFA, I thought the plot device toward the end of Honor Among Thieves would fit thematically. Without getting into spoilers, it dealt well with how someone like Leia would handle Death Star-level power if she had the opportunity. 

"And as a child, I built C-3PO."

I quite like that clip. It strikes me as mildly (!) odd that Bilbo reacts so strongly and emphasizes the word "last," but that is probably only due to my prior familiarity with the source material.

However, the way it plays out here suggests they expected the sun but immediately found it was the moon that did it.

I'd like to recognize a particularly helpful source I used for my edits, especially Episode III. If you've not checked out his book, I recommend it highly. The audio version is especially good.

http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/theturn.html

I remember someone posting a link to a mostly text-only webpage containing chronological listings of rumors leading up to TPM. Does anyone have this bookmarked? 

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I'm not sure how feasible it is, but perhaps after Luke escapes the wampa and passes out in the snow, the wampa could once again drag him to his lair. 

Even less feasible idea: the first time, it's roughly the OOT version (plus whatever weirdness you want to add to it). I.e., we see an arm fall off but no reaction shot. The second time around, we see the reaction shot, which will have been altered to appear as though both arms are now missing. 

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"Directed by JJ Abrams, Story by... someone else" sounds good to me.

Wow, I'm not sure! I'll see about getting that straightened out. Thanks for the tip.

That, and to imply that a longer conversation was just coming to an end as the scene opens. Even keeping a clipped version would seem like they decided what to do extremely quickly. I thought the best thing to do was cut pretty much all of it and merely imply that they'd decided what to do. That can hang in the air for a few minutes until we see the twins being delivered to their homes. I also had the benefit of the film being a prequel.

EDIT: Also, Yoda's subsequent allusion to Obi-Wan spending time on Tatooine lends itself to the idea that they discussed what to do offscreen.

Thanks for taking the time to give feedback. Personally, I recommend the 720p versions for less quality difference between the HD and SD material.

Thank you! I see you understand why the "Nooo" had to stay in my version. Having Padme live is what dictated the direction I took the entire film. 

When I first saw Q2's edit, I was impressed at the idea, appreciating how it corrected something that stuck in my craw from day one. Then I found Corigar's cut, which downplayed Anakin's fears of Padme's death as a motivation for him to join the dark side. These two things support each other, and that's what formed the core idea for my Ep3 edit.

The one thing that would have been nice to have is some way to include Padme, or a mention of her, when the rest are talking about splitting up the twins. I considered including some distant weeping in the background, but that's pretty clumsy. The way it's set up, it's sort of a point of tension about what shape Padme is in until we see her on Alderaan. The altered medical droid dialogue ties up the loose end by setting us up to expect her to not survive into the next film. 

About ready to call it quits for the night, but I have tomorrow off work. Wondering if its too early to start inviting people over for a staggered Star Wars viewing as leadup to Ep7. Starting in June, one film a month. Also in need of Star Wars themed drinks. Not necessarily all alcoholic. 

As a user with 'boredom' in his username, how have you been feeling lately?

Would you mind posting a screencap or two from v2.2 of Ben's saber? I'm looking at v2.1 and it seems like there is a lot of odd pixelation around it both in the cantina and on the Death Star. 

So, what do we do in the meantime? 

Apologies. I will tread lightly here. But I'd wager Spock dies at the beginning, and it turns out to just be a training session. 

I wasn't planning on making the jump until the next trailer, but the particularly strong warning on the last bit of news startled me enough. 

I have a guess about which of the big three would be most likely to bite it, though I'd rather not read about the specifics ahead of time. There's just no way to imagine what it would have been like to see the three-hilted saber for the first time in the teaser trailer, rather than beforehand online. The moment was less of a, "whoa, what's that?" and more of, "oh, so that rumor was true."

Forming a habit of kneejerking away from spoilers will be tough. I didn't do that at all for the prequels, since we knew what would happen broadly already. 

I'm bumping this in the hopes of stirring up some conversation in this thread. I decided to go ahead and join the spoiler-free crowd. 

Yeah, yeah. "That's okay, I'm never coming back to this planet again."

But thanks for the interest. ;)

V3 is 100% finished, and currently available at the usual venues. *fistpump*

Keep a lookout on myspleen for a 1080p-only "V3B" of Ep2 and Ep3, the only difference being Jackpumpkinhead's source used for Mace Windu's lightsaber. But V3 proper is utterly completed. 

The only thing I could foresee to cause me to re-do any of my work is either A) if they were to release the prequel deleted scenes in HD, and/or B) emanswfan releases his (final version?) regraded source material some sunny day in the future. Even then, I wouldn't plan on making any creative editing changes.

I apologize if I came across as short. I just wanted to know what this project was about.

So, what're the goals of this project? To help the small subsection of the OT films that consist of sabers and laser blasts appear as though they were done recently?