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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…

I thought it worked surprisingly well. Not perfect but I’d like to watch the whole film that way and just see what it’s like.

Some day, even if in the distant future, we will live to see the entire film given a virtual-Harrison-Ford treatment. Kinda crazy to think about.

ALLOL

I do like where Faraday is heading with that revision.

If we’re gonna revise the crawl… I guess it’d only make sense to make the font for the title match TFA and TROS. I don’t really like the symbolic statement that makes, but it seems to make sense to do.

[A power vacuum is here.] Having decimated the New Republic capital and military, Supreme Leader Snoke presses his advantage to seize control of the galaxy’s central star systems.

Reeling from their failure to prevent the Starkiller atrocity, many allies of General Leia Organa’s RESISTANCE fear only the return of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker can 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…