I just found out the new series was paywalled to Disney plus. Why do i have BBC America like at all.
Not paying when i was getting it for free. Maybe they’ll be a blu-ray at some point, who knows. They screwed over American fans. Been watching it on tv since Tennant .
I’ve been looking for the Mono Mix of Help! for a good long while to no luck. No VHS, or laserdisc has it.
I tried buying the first issue Laserdisc but that was a dead end. Mono compatible two channel stereo.
Best of series Japan Laserdisc of American Graffiti. I don’t recommend this transfer at all. Its one of the worst i’ve ever seen. I mean i can forgive that its pan and scan but its worse than some VHS tapes i have seen. Yes the sound is digital audio but its tinny sounding and absolutely terrible. Like someone taped a radio broadcast on cassette.
I’m just going to have to get the 1996 letterbox THX disc of the pre Special Edition and see if its better. I might have to settle for the revised 1998 edit if the sound and image is superior. the Signature collection.
I didn’t bother with my MCA Discovision disc its gotta be worse than the one i just watched. And its analog audio only.
Star Trek season 2. Japanese Laserdisc. The transfer is very good. The opening Space the final frontier seems to be from a vastly inferior source than the actual episodes though. And the audio is nothing too spectacular its mono sound like how the show was originally broadcast.
I hate the name Sheev, and i hate that Palpatine was renamed Darth Sidious more than Stewjon even if its idiotic. Just like i prefer apprentice over Padawan. I know this had nothing to do with the EU but, i dislike it as much as Yoda and Palpatine even having lightsabers.
Canon is whatever until George decided to change something. He was like Indiana, i’m making it up as i go.
They really need to stop pretending the tie in fiction that comes out of licensing is on the same level as the film and tv canon. They just keep upsetting people every time Filoni changes something.
If not for Anakin being a greedy dumbass, i’d blame his fall completely on the prequel Jedi. They did everything they could to make him bottle up his feelings and be afraid of them, separate him from his only family and teach him that human bonds of compassion and affection were abnormal.
The Jedi were like a weird cult.
Had he been freed as a slave on Tatooine, he either would have been a pilot on a freighter making grain or water shipments, or a moisture farmer if not conscripted into the Imperial Navy. And probably not become Darth Vader, though its hard to say.
Yeah Vader was supposed to be one of many Dark Lords. As per the Lucas/Foster story conference on Splinter, and in the novelization of Star Wars. That part was never edited out of the book itself but the audio tape abridgement changed it to just Vader being the Dark Lord. in the 1990s. John Whitman did the edited abridgement.
Rather than rewriting or having a new novelization of Return of the Jedi it just became non canon. Since Obi-Wan isn’t Owen’s brother in the prequel. And it wasn’t Obi-Wan’s hubris that lead to Anakin becoming Vader. Leia remembering her mom. Yoda wasn’t his Jedi Master.
Honestly the prequel itself should be struck from canon its done too much damage to Star Wars, even if i like Phantom Menace and i like Qui-Gon.
And the Gout disc is at best a facsimile. 77 crawl on 1992-93 video transfer with 1993 audio.
The smashing glass sound in the detention block is something i will never not hear with this version of the movie and i absolutely loathe it.
They had access to some low fade interpositive or internegative which looks very very nice, but they messed up the colors and used DNR. It was a sign of things to come, there will never be a good looking version of the original film at least officially.
Added The Creator Digital.
Reminds me of how you could create a Lightsaber in Kotor II backstory and Atris never gives it back,lol. I think i had a Viridian, a blood orange color, and even Silver. On my different playthroughs.
Yes it was very lazy to reuse an out-take from Return of the Jedi. You can even see Jerjerrod in the footage. Lucas likes to reuse deleted scenes later, and even ideas from scripts previously jettisoned. Most of the time not for the good.
Nope. The 1981 cut is what made its way to video in 1982. I have the FOX rental Tape. The roll up was reshot and starfield changed? The audio is original though its the theatrical stereo mix. Not the digital mix created later.
Its also pan and scan and not in letterbox. I don’t know if the tape is time compressed or not i haven’t watched it since 2006. It had tape rot, just like my first pressing Laserdisc has laser rot. I wonder if the thing even tracks anymore or would ruin my VCR.
Zahn used the term Dark Jedi to refer to Palpatine and Vader. I guess he had no idea what a Sith was?
I mean other than wanting The Noghri to be the Sith race, and Vader Lord of the Sith.
I mean i’m glad the Old EU Aka Legends has been left alone they haven’t gone back and given darth names to all the non Darth Sith Lords, or retroactively gave them all red lightsabers. And they didn’t edit the timeline or backstory Zahn had in his trilogy about the old Empire, the Clone Wars, they didn’t correct the ideas of the Jedi pre prequel to homogenize them with Lucas.
What i hate is the need to believe it was all one big consistent canon when it never was. KJA was full of it when he wanted to write that tome about the history of the Star Wars universe, never mind the published Chronology was way different than promised. He promised the existing EU fit the prequel. I mean i know there are fans of these things, but i understand why Disney binned it all. It didn’t fit Filoni Clone Wars either. So they said we’ll put it in the trash bin and call it Legends.
I recommend the X-wing books. If you like Corran Horn if not disregard.
The dark nest trilogy was awful. So was the Caedus storyline. I hate Mara’s death. I hate the Abeloth and Mortis story. Though it might be interesting the Jedi and Sith joining forces, if they had done something interesting with that concept they didn’t.
I hate how they killed Anakin Solo. The Vong story is probably one of the worst things ever. But the publishing people didn’t care because NJO sold a lot of copies.
Basically for me the EU ends with the Thrawn Duology. I like Ben Skywalker, and Luke and Mara getting together but everything else i pretty much hate. Was the Bantam era perfect far from it. Still prefer it over Del Rey, Superweapon of the week and all.
Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi arcs were garbage. The worst novel i’ve ever read was Crucible.
I like Cade Skywalker and Deliah Blue, i don’t like how much of a mary sue Darth Krayt was.
I hooked up my laserdisc player and watched some of Tenchi Muyo in Love 2. And Return of the Jedi. Tenchi is only in Japanese, the other was the HK THX disc for ROTJ. Pan and Scan. Interesting watching the old X-files previews at the beginning and the Leonard Maltin Interview with George Lucas. Tenchi in love 2 has a near DVD quality picture and is very good, the Hong Kong Disc for JEDI is very washed out and not so good. I honestly think the VHS has better resolution, the only thing that excels is the PCM sound its loud and wonderfully robust.
The skin tones are very red on the actors faces, i thought at first it was my tv but its properly calibrated so its the THX remastering.
So from what i have read the new 4K has atrocious DNR, and the Blu is the same disc as before. I guess i shouldn’t be surprised. The digital mockery of what once was a film is right up George Lucas’s alley.
coasting on '80s nostalgia
This is my problem with pretty much all pop culture these days. It’s all about the 1980s.
Most of it is but Star Wars prequel nostalgia, lord of the rings and Matrix, or Jurassic Park aren’t 1980s.
I don’t care about Star Wars canon anymore. I just enjoy what i like from the films, tv shows or expanded universe. None of it fits together to tell a larger narrative but that is okay.
I have friends who are legends or die types, OT only, prequel stans. I honestly don’t care.
Even Disney Star Wars i like the animated and the comics and i like Ahsoka. I even like the sequel trilogy, even if i hate how they dealt with the legacy characters. I mean its just a movie, enjoy it or don’t. I moved on from my love/hate relationship with the sequel to now bargaining on hating or loving Dial of Destiny.
I think Lucas probably based some of his characteristics on Ming minus the racism. And on the Wizard of OZ. Probably also the Emperor from Dune and a slimy politician controlled by the bootlickers. The reference to Nixon probably was about Vietnam and Watergate. Lucas using a public corruption to describe to Kasdan who the Emperor was. Then again Lucas saw the time before Kennedy’s assassination as a sort of golden time we can’t return to. Watch American Graffiti. Kennedy’s death the end of democracy, Buddy Holly dying and the British invasion the death of rock and roll.
Curt you can’t stay 17 forever, the death of innocence. Hangs over that movie.
I’m not really focused on the EU, but i think Yoda and Palpatine should never have had a lightsaber in the prequel. Lucas should have stuck with his original prequel outline. Vader hunts down the Jedi no order 66. Ben and Vader duel over a volcano. Leia’s mom goes to Alderaan and died when she was very young. Somewhere in there Ben tries to sway Anakin back to the good side and fails leading to their duel and Anakin finally needing the suit to survive.
The only thing i’m not sold on was the original love triangle between Ani, Luke’s mom and Ben. I don’t think Lucas could pull it off.
Things i wonder about Anakin being portrayed as an adventurous man who didn’t care about farming but wanted to solve things with his lightsaber. He wanted Luke to have his lightsaber when he was old enough. Those idealistic crusades Ben spoke of. What were they?
Were the Clone Wars about Mandalorians fighting the Jedi like Revan in Kotor? Where did the Clones fit in.
Luke, he realized the arrogance of the Prequel Jedi. Too bad he repeated their mistakes. Only Luke could have said Its time for the Jedi to end.
Wasn’t Naboo originally Aquilae the world annexed by the Galactic Emperor, not the Trade Federation. And the purge of the Jedi was the end of the Jedi rebellion. Valorum the Knight of the Sith, right hand man of the Emperor was involved in both. No order 66, no Space taxes.
I remember the 1990s like it was yesterday. The music, the clothes. The movies. Video games. Sometimes i feel like it was another lifetime. Same for the 80s.
Camp David Accords. Jimmy Carter is President. An era of worldwide political instability and terrorism. Era in aftermath of Nixon and Watergate.
Superman and Grease are the top movies.