Hal 9000

Comp in the new starcruiser hotel in nearly all major space scenes throughout the saga.

Gimpy said:

Here is my attempt at a coloring of a darth jar Jar fan art to look as if its in bacta. Possibly to replace Snoke in the Snoke tanks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BKJ71SyiHoFVEVkuPhpFx4c8bJnixRCo/view?usp=sharing

Sending now.

Would you like to remove scratches from the single shot of the DSII blowing up in ROTJ? The current best version I’m aware of is from 4K83, but that shot has some scratches that weren’t able to be removed through automated cleanup due to the nature of the shot.
I use this in my ROTJ project and I think it’s the only shot I need that has scratches like that. Could certainly provide the shot if you’d be interested.

Do you think I’ll remember to get some at the grocery store this weekend? I don’t.

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I am not going to have spaghetti for dinner tonight.

I just uploaded them to my Drive, so if anyone needs them now they’re there too.

If the entire special edition enterprise never got any worse than the 1997 special edition of empire, we’d all be in pretty good shape.

sherlockpotter said:

Dude, are you telling me that the central conflict they had been building up for two and a half films (the First Order) was resolved off-screen by a bunch of unknown people whom we never meet? While our protagonists were dicking around with a random side mission?

Nope! There’s a lot of material across the nine edits that couldn’t make the journey to 4K. I’ve never edited in it anyway and not sure how to properly go about it.

My SW projects will be relegated to 1080p. Sorry to disappoint, but thank you for the kind words.

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Maybe he could go to space.

Yeah, felt about time.

Well hey, I appreciate that. Let me compile a list of what I had my eye on and we’ll see how things are. Don’t want to steal your thunder, even if you’re credited in the change log and stuff.

Sirius said:

Maybe this site could help to recreate these Boba lines. I just don’t know if the tone will be right:

https://fakeyou.com/?vocodes=1

(This is an AI generated voice site)

Not sure it’d be totally usable, but this ain’t bad!

https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:hh23vhx2xe34q3f8h031na34pt3y7

What event or moment do you have in mind?

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ANH is waiting on Dat_SW_Guy’s project, but the slight audio update to the others could be put out soon but I’d like to wait a little bit to see if anything else presents itself for them first.

TFA had the easier job of setting up the story of the ST, and made what I consider a bad call in recreating the plot mechanics of the original film(s) of rebels vs empire. It deliberately chose not to build on the story as it had developed so far but to regress and recreate. I’m not interested in blaming specific people, so I personify the film when doing so because I don’t know if these decisions were mandated from on high or JJ’s own insistence. TFA works pretty good at executing this unfortunate decision and introduces a colorful cast of characters in a fun ride. You’re all right with the lack of a solid ending because you understand it’s part one of three. TFA bears its own flaws well enough, but leeches somewhat on what would follow and cannot stand on its own.

TLJ actually has some kind of a central idea, that idea is just kind of sophomoric. TLJ smells the above about its predecessor and wants to correct it before it’s too late. It does so respectfully, taking the events and story so far seriously even as it changes our view of them. It’s a critique of TFA and a dare for IX to be great.

IX failed that dare altogether. TLJ said, “I dare you to do better” without knowing it would be the TFA crew the message would be sent to. TROS was written on the bus to school and the administrators weren’t willing to give it more time. So, we got a bullshit story of “nuh-uh, Snoke didn’t really die, he was just Palpatine all along.” TROS is that kid who stubbornly insists he is winning a playground game and is the worst at turn-based storytelling games. I don’t have many good things to say about TROS. It doesn’t seem to say much of anything, at least when you exclude things the OT already said. There’s no new light cast on anything and nothing to go home thinking about that ROTJ didn’t do much better. It’s a shame for the entire Star Wars saga to end on such a note. I laughed through my first viewing because otherwise I’d just feel embarrassed and sad. It’s enough to hope for a 10-12 trilogy someday just to have another chance at doing what 7-9 ought to have done. Just down the road enough for the chance that enough turnover would let it be fresh.

Tell that to the AOTC crawl.

If RJ was going to refer to star systems in this crawl I’d imagine he’d consider that way of doing so for that reason. Not a huge deal either way, of course. TPM’s crawl uses “star systems” so there’s precedent for both (but I didn’t remember that until looking it up just now.)

I suspect Burbin is right. The existing crawl serves this film, and changing it too much feels contrived to suit other ancillary material.

Nevertheless, here’s another…

The First Order reigns. Having [removed all the peaceful Republic’s defenses], Supreme Leader Snoke gathers his remaining forces to seize control of the galaxy’s central solar systems.

Only General Leia Organa’s band of Resistance fighters stand against the rising tyranny, certain that Jedi Master Luke Skywalker will return and restore a spark of hope to the fight.

But the Resistance has been exposed. As the First Order speeds toward the rebel base, the brave heroes mount a desperate escape…