Hal 9000

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.

Tyrphanax said:

Bingowings said:

I wonder if the Force Kick guy has a name.

He does not. But maybe you could write him a story.

I'd like to think he was prone to seizures that cause him to drop abruptly, hence the helmet.

There's no link to a news source? Put this in the general VII thread.

are you for real or like no way man

The script might not be perfect, but Harmy seems to have done a thorough job of customizing it afterward. I don't think it'd necessarily benefit greatly from starting all over. 

Personally I'd feel a lot better if I watched two minutes of the BluRays themselves then looked at the Despecialized again. Any imperfections melt by comparison.

Just re-watched the featurette Harmy did about the sources, which is shockingly good, and was wondering if the You_Too preliminary color corrected source was ever made available. Anyone know? It would do nicely if I ever wanted to put together a project of sorts for ANH or the other two.