Hal 9000

Hit me up, please.

Single movie format?

Two-part TV movie ala 1990’s “It”?

If the former, you’d have to cut a fit bit to include the Lars and Reva stuff at the end.

Very good, and well done, Spence! That was about as good of a single-film presentation or the series as it is as would be possible to put together. It felt solid, and felt right. The thoughts below are meant to vet it even so, of course.

• I wonder if the opening shot could begin after the pan downward has finished, and looped or stretched to be longer. In other words, to open on a locked shot from the ground which holds a few seconds.
• I believe we meet Lola when we meet Ned-B, and are to assume she’d been in Leia’s pocket the whole time. It was a shame not to keep the dialogue about the Force feeling like turning on the light, so I wonder about how introducing Lola earlier, perhaps when Ben tells her “no noise from that” on city-world, or when Needles breaks her first.
• The series appeared to dance around using the Imperial March, but I feel like making an exception for Vader is right. However, the use of the March for the Inquisitor fortress right after we meet Freck does not involve Vader so I’d suggest removing it from this scene.
• Was a shame to skip the tension of the troopers riding along with Ben and Leia and the ad libbed conversation about her mother. However, it’s removed cleanly.
• I believe Leia asks Reva how Ben died, but that we had not been shown Reva telling her this to begin with.
• Ben gives Leia Lola back at the end, but I don’t think we see that she’d given her to him beforehand.
• The iris transition into end credits is in the wrong direction.

It’s difficult to assess how it’ll work, but I can’t wait to see. That all sounds wonderful!

Only trouble there is I’d feel split between the two! Lol

We’ll see about this in time. Appreciate the thoughts on it.

Sounds like a good time.

I do wonder if you have any thoughts about one particular moment, being when Ben tells Leia she reminds him of someone in Ep2. I think removing drawing a line to Padme allows the audience to assume he means Anakin, which feels more germane to what happens next.

Yes, it also smooths continuity with my own fan edit of ROTS, of course. Just wondering.

Yeah, but it still gets that point across retroactively. I could put in the line, “Not even the younglings survived,” to introduce the term without security footage of Anakin personally slaughtering them taking over Obi-Wan and Padme’s motivations. We do see in LOE some very young bodies strewn about so there’s still the idea that Jedi of all ages were killed. The main thing I wanted to do for LOE is avoid having killing tiny kids be the first thing a semi-reluctant Vader goes to do. It still happens implicitly, but Anakin himself isn’t known to be directly involved because it overshadows his overall betrayal of the Jedi.

But yeah, not altogether called for, but I haven’t decided for certain. Also will depend on which Kenobi fan edit I end up adopting as my go-to out of the crop!

EDIT: I looked again at the relevant conversation in Ep5, and Kenobi does express his knowledge of Anakin killing the younglings.

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Well, I could possibly update TFA if Nev’s Starlight V2 merits it. And I am not 100% sure yet that I won’t want to update my prequel edits to comport better with the Kenobi series and future things. (Who’d have guessed Anakin killing children that day would be a plot-critical thing in new live-action Star Wars?

Tantalizing work, keep it up!

Cool it, guys.

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PMs sent

I got a translation already, but I appreciate the offer!

‘Rey Nobody’ is 100% live and available in the usual places. 😄

OP updated with changelist for this alternate version.

“This looks like fun.” -Anakin

Thank you for letting us know. I’m so pleased to hear this is coming along under their consultation.

Very much looking forward to the final product.

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ ends with character info about what happened to them.

“Owen and Beru were incinerated while resisting arrest during a domestic violence dispute.”

“Bail, Breha, and the rest of Leia’s family died when their planet was destroyed by the Empire. Her cousin was off-world on Spring Break and was the sole survivor.”

“Luke attempted to revive the Jedi Order, though retired after his nephew became a school shooter.”

“Obi-Wan tried so many new spices and drank heavily, expanding his mind under the renewed tutelage of Qui-Gon to the point he nearly forgot ever hearing his own name.”

“Obi-Wan’s boss was stabbed three weeks later in the parking lot over a dispute regarding a three-piece fried chicken meal.”

That sounds nice. His costume is different at the end of the series, though, so that may be a frustrating continuity barrier.

Vladius, NFBisms, and RogueLeader need a government grant to hammer this out in full.

stretch009 said:

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Paging Backstroke of the West.

Well crap, you’re right about the milky eyes. Don’t know how that happened. I’ll get that fixed while I’m fixing another thing anyway.

And the dyad line was deliberate. The scene in the Rey Nobody edit already has a lot of sentence mixing for Kylo Ren, so I thought it better not to push things too far and only lean out on that branch as far as needed to get the important things taken care of.

They all have Spanish subtitles, among others. Should be included as part of the file itself. 😃

I was made aware of a few big (but simple) errors in some of the subtitles, including one that stays onscreen for an hour.

So I’ll fix and replace these, and update you all here once this is all done 100%.

I adore that as an opening sequence, NFB. It’s disturbing, even.

Movies Remastered said:

Brilliant! Well done, Hal. I bet that’s a load off?

Not to be dramatic about it, and most of what’s been frustrating is the regular life stuff that has made it so hard to get it done!

The alternate ‘Rey Nobody’ version is basically complete now, I’m pleased to report. Currently the large 1080p and DVD5 versions are available via the same link I send to people who request access, with the other two versions to follow once they are encoded. After that’s done, I will make torrents for them as well.

This alternate version has no commentary or alternate language tracks, although all the foreign language subtitle tracks are present. (Manually shifting the subtitles took more work than anything else!)

Thank you to Spence and everyone instrumental in completing this version. With this in place, Ascendant is… complete now. I did make a few audio tweaks to saber ignition sounds as I described a while back that I would like to see reflected in the regular version as well, but which don’t make sense to reissue unless I were fairly confident there’d be no V3. (I don’t see one on the horizon, which I’m okay with, so maybe I just will go ahead.)