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Hal 9000

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#1474265
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What do you think of the <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong>? - a general discussion thread
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Luke Skywalker has, understandably, been the center of my interest in Star Wars. So, from the moment the sequel trilogy was announced I was very interested in seeing how things have gone for him since ROTJ.

I was saddened not to get much of him in TFA, but was super excited about the promise of TLJ. Even though Luke turned out not to have successfully capitalized on his new purpose at the end of ROTJ, I’m glad his journey was mythically resonant in TLJ and found he had something to teach me in his journey. I feel TROS basically said about Luke, “You failed but taught a lesson in the process, and Rey will recapitulate your journey and incorporate this to carry it out later.”

I’m glad TLJ gave Luke a journey to go on, and one I’ve found personally very significant, even as evidenced by taking a bit of time and wrestling for me to reach that point.

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#1473619
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TFA: A Gentle Restructure (Released)
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I think it was because we wanted to make the mission “daring,” and needed something to describe Poe. Not entirely sure, though! I suppose one could say that his “trustedness” goes down at the start of TLJ.

I’m not looking to revise the crawl for TFA:R, as it requires Ridley to go through a big rigamaroll, and I’m genuinely all right with what it is at present. I’m hoping to button up the revision and then probably be finished with this project for good. Well, at least until the next Starlight-type project blows it open again.

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#1473562
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Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.2 a WIP)
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Great to see R2’s light like that. I notice the Falcon traveling much closer to the Death Star in that one shot, which is cool.

The blasters. I tend not to like efforts to make the blasters in ANH or the OT look similar to subsequent depictions by adding a core, because it never seemed to blend in right and would often be too thick. This, however, is totally perfect. Looks pitch-perfect in its goal and does not at all feel out of place. Color me impressed.

R2’s light looks good, but I wonder if mimicking Adywan’s effort for Revisited back in 2007 a bit closer might help further. When R2’s light changes in Revisited, it seems to get darker during the transition, and I wonder if that helps sell that some mechanism is pulling a tab. Here, the color just changes left to right and can feel like a digital alteration. I’m not sure how else to get at what I mean.

Stellar, man!

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#1473279
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The Last Jedi: Legendary (Released)
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^ Eh, I wouldn’t want to count on changing TROS’s crawl, and to me it’s perfectly fine not to have CAPS. If there’s something to capitalize, great, and if not, that’s all right. One consideration is that TLJ capitalizing THE FIRST ORDER probably helps the fist sentence be presented all on one line nicely and without being spaced out too much. I’ll probably just respect how RJ had it.