The thing about the thumbs up is that removing it helps a later change about Han needing a “clean ship.” The lighter joke is still there!
But I’ll take a good look and think about what I feel belongs in Restructured, erring on the side of excluding things in order to maintain its role as ‘mostly conservative.’
I think this TikTok Text-to-Speech thing might just be the most worthwhile breakthrough we’ve had since the invention of the NLE.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Post 102 is worth more…
My mind is going… I can feel it.
I’ll reconsider my list of changes, but I really do wish to remain distinct from Starlight and avoid bending too much in its direction, even to include stuff I like. It’s there to be viewed in its own right, after all. One thing that may not be obvious unless you’re thinking about going about editing is that Starlight is sort of a gordian knot and some things about it I like only work alongside more extensive changes.
I don’t plan to use the dice scene or Falcon deleted scene, as much as I enjoy them, for instance. Not wanting a huge revamp, just that there’s a few things Starlight presents that enhance TFA:R’s existing goals.
I don’t think it’d help anything. As it is, the movie pauses to take a moment to show Boba grieving, and extending it with a closeup of the helmet isn’t necessary. All it’d do is make the audience say “ah so that’s just reusing things” when they get to the BOBF.
We see the four spirits we’ve seen so far in the saga, is the ultimate reason. Leia has not yet fully transformed into the Force evidently, and as Jar Jar said above ROTS implies the ‘disappear and become a ghost’ ability was recently discovered in history. (So weird.) in the theater, the voices made me question things, since it would seem to go against ROTS. (Although the novelization mentions Yoda being chill about Qui-Gon’s voice because he assumed it was merely the Force speaking to him using his voice until he emphasized “no it’s really me.”)
Also, having four we’ve seen before feels better than 37 all over the place.
Fine. (I was on the fence about doing so, and wanted to avoid just importing a ton from Starlight.)
With the release of NeverarGreat’s masterful ‘Starlight’ project, I find myself prepping another revision of TFA:R. My goal is merely to make use of a few things and ideas that help Restructured with its own goals, and not to just incorporate everything that I like (because we’d pretty much just end up with Starlight).
Here’s what I’m planning to do:
Undo the dawn effect when Finn wakes up on Jakku, since it should be later the same day as Rey is already at the outpost. Having it be daybreak only works if you restructure the surrounding scenes like Nev does.
Remove BB8 revealing the location of the base to Rey and Finn. This change is necessary for a change already made to TFA:R to remove the heroes’ motive of finding a “clean ship” when visiting Maz. Now, they see her because she knows where to go.
Use Nev’s little scene with Poe saying the X-wing squadron must “mop up some of these TIEs” before they can resume bombing the oscillator, replacing 3PO’s line about needing a miracle a little more effectively and explaining why the fighters have strayed so far when we next see them.
Use a few new shots for the SKB firing sequence to make less use of slowed down footage and remove the reused shot of Leia which sort of ruins her reaction after the planets are destroyed (the pan from laser to operators and Kylo, Rey, and Finn looking up at the red beam)
Add the shot with the added cloaked binary beacon from TLJ. (How could I resist that?)
Not really. The line was removed in the first place not to change Boba’s character or lore, but because the scene just stops to take a detour to give exposition about a character the audience is familiar with but has no bearing on what’s happening.
I think the audience would have no trouble at all inferring he’s a clone or accepting when this is more or less stated in new content.
Also, without the line specially stating he is completely unaltered and genetically identical, it makes for an easier time head-canon-ing that even in Boba’s case he still ages somewhat faster than his host.
This is a lot of fun. The possibilities are endless! 😂
Anyway, I’m listening to the commentary track now. It’s a real treat!!
omg stop it you’re gonna make me pee my pants
If I hadn’t have just finished things, I’d put that into the commentary track too!
Just an idea 😏 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rst8qcQxH_r1c_e0y8TYtoMxmrNF4_si/view?usp=sharing
But really, that’s pretty funny.
I don’t have access at the moment to look over the kewlfish footage for the cave sequence, but prior color banding isn’t apparent in it, but seems to be when encoding down. I guess it’s just bound to happen when crunching down to distribution form factors.
The ProRes output (HQ format due to these issues) is also available, so feel free to experiment with it.
Also, now V2 has been fully reissued and, at least for right now, 100% finished and distributed!
In seriousness, I don’t think this suddenly cracks the earth open and forces a huge rethink of everything. If anything, just some of the 3PO dialogue related to his memory. It doesn’t seem like suddenly we’d be able to pull off R2 having to just recount their history to him or anything quite like that.
3PO bolts upright, eyes red.
“This dagger is a pathway to the dark side of the Force. It’s weirder must surrender to their own inner darkness to allow it to lead the way to the Wayfinder… … Only this blade tells.”
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It’s not a new clip, is it? Isn’t it what’s on the BR bonus material?
New version of the large 1080p form factor is now available, with the other two encoding now. When all are done, then I’ll update the torrents. (I’m not going to bother with the DVD5.) So that’ll probably come tomorrow or a day later.
And I know I’ve said it before, but this Williams theme will always be associated for me with our time together working on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPyWz2J7ng8
Well, if poppasketti does want to tweak it, I can sit on it and have it in place for any future revisions. You never know if there’ll be a V3 someday. As it is, it really doesn’t look like anything that would have seemed out of place if it had always been that way.
There’s an “iTunes” cover included. I’d imagine that’d work best.
I’d… I’d say let’s let it go. 😃
And snooker, hearing that you enjoyed the commentary makes me feel happy. Hope you’re doing well.
I really do not notice anything at all off in the color of the TIE, and have begun encoding video. But if poppasketti wishes to revise it at all, that’s fine. Just please let me know soon, as I have everything else about ready.
I really enjoyed watching this, and I’d rank it about at the level of an average episode of Mando. I appreciate the restraint and/or budget that allows for non-explosive, smaller stakes stories like this. It’s just Boba Fett, Tatooine, and sand. There were a few instances of characters and things popping up I could have done without, the biggest being Max Rebo. These weren’t anything to get bent out of shape about, but I feel the show would be stronger for omitting them. But it was very pleasant to look at Morrison and I look forward to what comes next. Boba Fett never seemed to me like a terribly interesting character for sustained storytelling outside of miscellaneous bounty jobs. If the events of this series were told in the medium of a comic book I wouldn’t probably have even read a summary. But I’m glad to have this show to enjoy. Much like my thoughts about Rogue One, I’m happy to relax a sense of criticism on this one.
Seems odd for the Sarlacc to have a stormtrooper being digested, as Tatooine didn’t seem to have much of an Imperial presence outside of the search for the droids during ANH. I’m glad they handled the Sarlacc without showing the SE beak, that was nice.
I’d never fall asleep on Tatooine. Poor Luke must have had nightmares about a Machamp coming up out of the ground to get him.
That Rodian prisoner has such emotive, unmoving eyes. Another great instance of SW having the audience project emotion onto a motionless face.
Hey jonh! What a pleasant surprise. Does anyone remember that scene in Superhero Movie (spoof of Spider-Man) where a bunch of different animals start humping the hero?
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One other tiny thing I’m adjusting for the V2 reissue is to tweak the single shot of Jakku to be a half step closer to how it looks in Starlight. 😉
Welcome, jonh! Just sent you a PM.
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And that’s awesome feedback, CaptainFaraday! Thanks for passing that along. I like the glimpse into how others see this who have no involvement in its making. 😃
