Cloud City’s intro has a female vocal, yeah. ROTJ has choral as Luke gets aggressive on Vader.
They’re two cuts of the same movie, but I think either maintains good continuity with Rey Nobody.
Legendary borrows some of the more subtle Palpatine things, but nothing explicit. The most explicit is probably hearing palatine laugh as Luke looks into Kylo’s mind during the flashback, but I would’ve interpreted that figuratively had the original been like that.
Add to the chorus of Jedi spirits encouraging Rey to stand in TROS Palpatine’s call from the ROTS trailer to “Rise.”
EDIT: oops, sorry, was mistaken
Framed portrait hanging in the Death Star conference room?
You’d think so, but it doesn’t end up working in practice to keep Rey’s parents as nobodies AND have Ochi seeking her. Because her parents then become noble in shielding her, which begs the question as to why.
I could certainly see excising this episode almost entirely if 3 and 5 bridge well, if you’re trying to cram things into a ~2 hour movie. And that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it.
It’s not gonna be as seamless as the main version but it really comes close to working. Closer than I’d have guessed. There’s still some weird things, like how Ochi is just some random dumbass now.
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Well, ‘Rey Nobody’ has finished the editing stage! I took Burbin’s feedback and applied it to Spence’s version of the bedroom duel and hangar scenes.
There’s still work to do, including retiming all the subtitle tracks to fit and reapplying all the LUTs. But, it’s a-comin’.
Also, a very minor adjustment I made which will also be present in any future issue of either version of Ascendant. TFA and TROS usually give the blue Skywalker saber an ignition sound that blends the classic one and the Sith one, whereas TLJ gives it a mostly new one based off the classic one.
So, if TFA Restructured ever gets reissued, it’ll feature a version of the ignition sound a bit closer to the classic. I will be reissuing TLJ to fix a dumb visual mistake (flopped wrong shots when DJ breaks out of jail), so I went ahead and replaced one ignition sound I had missed prior. Then, in TROS it will now feature the sound originally given to it for TLJ. The logic is that it sounds like its old self until being broken, then it takes on a different sound. (Also, Leia’s saber will be consistent throughout. Someone on YouTube pointed out that in the training flashback, her saber seemed to have a combination of Luke’s and Ahsoka’s ignition sounds. So, I approximated it and applied it to the two other times her saber is ignited, instead of using the classic sound again.)
HAL, you’re pretty darn awesome!
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The funeral is still there! I just meant that scenes were restructured in order to remove Anakin’s murder confession.
Also there won’t be burnt-in subtitles because TAS didn’t have all of them, but I’ll include a .srt subtitle file for the alien dialogue.
It’s too hard for me.
I like this best of the three, although I feel Anakin’s Dark Deeds is more fitting than the Vader/Qui-Gon funeral because it harkens back to Obi-Wan reflecting on what Anakin has become. To me the funeral music sounds more like a statement than a reflection.
To Eddie’s point, I do already make a version of LOE available in which Padme dies. However, my main concern has always been for the saga itself to feel cohesive regardless of any other (in the old way of thinking about it, “EU”) material. So whether Kenobi addresses it or not, the saga viewer is still presented with the apparent contradiction.
Assuming the subject isn’t broached in the remainder of the Kenobi series, I would prefer to leave LOE as it is but to trim a couple things about Kenobi to let the viewer go on believing Padme had lived for some amount of time on Alderaan. I really like Leia’s conversation with Ben in episode 3 because when she wonders about her father, it implies she has less reason to wonder about her mother.
Now, if they go balls to the wall with a hard comment on the discrepancy by having Ben inject memories into her or something like that in a way essential to the story, then we might have an issue. But even so, two versions of LOE dodge the issue. If Kenobi does make a deliberate solution to it, there’ll still be the “saga only” version that coheres better directly with ROTJ.
Fortunately, something like this can be done in FCPX so I was able to do it while having some downtime, since I don’t have to boot into my other OS like I do for most of my fan editing stuff. (God help me the day FCP7 is beyond my reach forever.)
So I’m exporting a candidate, if everything looks right. I followed your directions, with a few tweaks I had to make when facing the reality of what’s there:
Everything else is as described: Losing the lakeside scene and using the truncated fireside scene, reordering scenes in order to remove Anakin confessing to Padme, and nixing the Dooku v Yoda duel.
Shaw. It’s Anakin as he should have been, at the apparent age he is in his unmasking. Anakin redeemed, rather than Anakin regressed.
Add a floating styrofoam cup of coffee to the conference room scene in ANH. Just floating all around throughout the scene.
Sure, that should be easy.
All sounds good to me, man. I’ll do this when I can get to it, and I haven’t been able to do any of my own stuff in over a week.
If there’s a missing frame, I’d imagine he would be able to reasonably borrow it from the DVD (or upscale) and fill the rest in with information from surrounding frames. Absolute worst case just duplicate a frame to keep sync with audio.