Hal 9000

All by himself. Let's go around the circle and say thank you to George for sharing with the rest of the class. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sd0BAxcEBQ

Speaking of Beru's voice, there was a very slight change to her dialogue for the SE. Compare the audio of the original to the SE or post-SE when she says, "He has too much of her father in him." Ever since '97, there's a very slight pause inserted before the word 'father.' 

I learned that while researching to make a custom GOUT-synced audio track for myself. I grew up with the 1997 SE and certain bits of audio don't sound right to me unless they're there. Things like the computer noises from the SE (and from the mono mix) as the Falcon takes off from the Death Star. I'm glad the DEed is GOUT-synced, as it makes these kinds of things relatively easy to do. 

George Lucas' story treatments are cursed. Ideally, they humored them to his face only to utterly disregard them later. 

Darth_Sidious said:

thanks night for a real anwser and grow up tv

That's one for the wall.

Threepio's left leg (golden, prime universe)

vs.

Threepio's right leg (silver, also prime universe)

The left leg is original, straight from the factory, while the right one was salvaged from a CZ-3 bounty hunter droid that Space Jimmy Smitts fought off with his bare hands and crushed him in the airlock door. The leg and part of the pelvis was all that remained onboard. 

I'm pretty sure I saw the EE in theaters, and this will be the EEE. The short scene between Elrond and Bilbo was kind of nice, but the rest was totally unnecessary. 

The nice thing about the LOTR EE was the extra bits and pieces that were largely based on things from the books that otherwise don't have a solid place in the films. I guess for the Hobbit EE it'll just be extra dwarven buffoonery that even the extended, three-film version doesn't have room for. 

Seeing the word 'prime' after a Star Wars character makes me a little sad. I don't even know why.

No problem. For muxing on my Mac, I've been using an app called Subler. There's probably several Windows alternatives. Just search for how to mux an MKV.

It's on the spleen, but not visible yet. I'm gonna let my torrent client seed overnight and see if the tracker sees it. 

Turisu said:

Any chance somebody who grabs this could upload it to MySpleen?

That'll be me. I'll keep you posted. 

Hey, I'd take the lossy one if you would share it. 

You might try hairy_hen's alternate ROTJ audio that you can find a link to in his thread. There's an alternate musical cue during the Kenobi exposition scene, but perhaps the audio is synced perfectly. 

You could even just do a quick edit and splice the two together, circumventing the alternate music in that scene. 

Y'know, for lack of anything better before your marathon. 

I agree; I have no quibs with "special edition" treatments, but Star Wars is the only one I can think of that intentionally tries to obscure the original version. 

I'd like to do a fan edit of a "tasteful" special edition, but I doubt that Harmy's DEed would match up very well with any other transfer in terms of color and grain and things. 

Perhaps he was able to write something halfway decent given that he did it of his own initiative and with no deadlines. At least it isn't a script. It's not dialogue we're talking about, just the napkin-sized synopses that others will run with. 

I'm surprised to hear myself say this, but I think it's good that GL is involved in that capacity. (But only that capacity.)

I like the new streamlined thread title. Makes it feel pure, like it's finished. And that's pretty cool. Congratulations once again. You deserve to be discovered and put to professional work doing this sort of thing. 

Was the 2003 retconned out of existence? If the two are mutually exclusive, I'll take the Samurai Jack style cartoon any day.

I can give you one post now, plus fifteen... when 2.5 is released.

DVD9, for best possible quality source for upscaling. 

Subtitle contest: "Please don't throw it at me this time."

As have I; sincere apologies; hope to see you abide in the forum.

Just a pesky request. Since you're in the process of uploading JasonN's prequel edits, might I ask that you upload Ep3 next instead of Ep2? It'd be much more useful sooner. 

"R2 has been known to make steaks... from time to time." Cutaway to shot of an R2-D2 barbeque that has to exist (ala Jar Jar being made into "a salad" in TRM).

Do you have a source for that?

I wouldn't mind a cast list sometime soon so I can know whether Chewbacca will be in the film. To me, that more than anything else would signify whether the EU will be revered or largely ignored before I get too far along in my post-ROTJ EU exploration. 

That color test made me feel like I was having a stroke.