Jar Jar Bricks

This is probably the best we’re gonna get for “I had hoped that you might tell me!”:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m-ajmXVcbVuz60MUiiW-H4RPerlpOx2i/view?usp=sharing

Here is a different reading of the second line (although I personally still prefer the first):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fZLkEPyXGkVhR7HqFS70WnVXfP9NNbHM/view?usp=sharing

I think no matter what we go with it will need some voice modulation effects placed on top. The results the AI spits out sometimes have the effect down but other times it’s a clear voice.

I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I thought they sounded very similar to Anthony Daniels and his character.

DZ-330 said:

For the first line, I think if we can have him sounding more like he is asking a question it might sound even better.

I’ll post some alternatives later tonight.

Here is a really good take of that first line:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CZ20wjEcRhpyVaEN3F4kyR_EB1vtitvk/view?usp=sharing

As for the second one, here is an extremely good take, as well:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-TcvUJ4TZUOCwi3Mcm4mg27y-XvcyRBE/view?usp=sharing

I have plenty of alternatives for both of these that sound just as good but with different emphases. Let me know if you want to hear those as well. I just picked out my favorite ones.

I’ll get to those when I can later today. I think that is a better response, for sure.

My problem with that line is that it presumes 3PO was able to pick up on a lot of information about himself, rather than the situation he finds himself in. Previous scenes seem to indicate that people are mostly ignoring him because they find his new state annoying. That line would work well if he had asked somebody like Poe who he was and he said, “All you need to know is that you used to be a highly-trained spy who worked for the Resistance.” Thus, it would be funny when 3PO repeats that same information to a stormtrooper. Alas, we obviously don’t have the resources to produce such a thing.

The line “I am on a mission for the Resistance!” is much more believable since he could glean all of that information from the others. He obviously knows he’s on a mission to rescue somebody called “Chewie”, and we can assume somebody mentioned the Resistance by name off-screen.

Here is a really solid take I got of it, although I have some alternatives: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1skny-Is5lOJW2RHW7v8yuYDc1NwfdJ69/view?usp=sharing

What lines did we want 3PO to say, again? I’d like to get started on generating those. I believe we can invent whatever we want him to say to the stormtroopers, right?

I don’t have an unmasked Kylo that sounds convincing enough, sadly.

As for the cracked saber, I think we might have to look in a different place to put that line. Krlozdac has a decent point that Rey is still hurt by her parents leaving her. But I do wonder if acknowledging that is still all that important since it’s going to be retconned later on, anyways.

Yeah I had considered the fact that he hasn’t seen it yet. He doesn’t see it until she ignites it when he’s about to run her over with his TIE. I’ll take a look at their duel to see if there’s possibly a gap. But at the end of the day I don’t think it’s too big of a deal if it’s purely a visual change and is never directly mentioned by a character.

We could replace Kylo’s “Do you still count the days since your parents left? Such pain in you. Such anger.” Since we are already replacing the following dialog anyways!

Hal, how did you feel about the lightspeed ramming stuff?

EDIT: I think a funny response for him on this context would follow the same pattern as Rey’s “I see through the cracks in your mask. You can’t stop seeing what you did to your father.” Maybe he could say in response, “I see the cracked crystal in your saber. You believe that you will never be a true Jedi.” Then it would go to our other new lines: “My mother doesn’t see the darkness in you. Your friends don’t either. But I do.”

I tried to get the line delivery as close as possible to the originals:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OBZW0HmX89FXHnTX5oeE6LPTBvG6aETo/view?usp=sharing (updated)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12jaAdFLXU51RVqZURTiYbYVW6kZJqOAN/view?usp=sharing

It’s up to Hal now if he wants to use it. Personally, I think that this helps bring some cohesiveness between TLJ and TROS, as well. This way we have an in-film acknowledgement that it is a real technique in the Star Wars galaxy that’s been around for awhile. Glad he removed the “Holdo maneuver” line because it implies she’s the one that invented it. You’re seriously telling me nobody thought of doing it before? lol.

I agree. Ramming something is also done intentionally, whereas most crashes are unintentional. However, here is proof that this would end up sounding good (with my previous line):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zCQ8j6lxN59hsUuBWcMQbX-yeAgPZd_D/view?usp=sharing

I’ll just regenerate them with the different wording.

hinventon said:

I wonder if we could AI generate a Poe line to fill that gap where he talks about light speed skipping, that was pretty much the only noticable cut in V2.

Okay, so it looks like it would actually pretty easy to reinstate this cut. Instead of relying on Poe, it would instead be entirely depended on my Rey model. Which is good, because it tends to produce a lot of screamy results!

The following lines would need to be dubbed over:
“You lightspeed skipped?” --> “You lightspeed crashed?”
“You can’t lightspeed skip the Falcon!” --> “You can’t lightspeed crash the Falcon!”

We’d be inventing a new term, but that’s exactly what the film does already for skipping. With the way we currently have things, it’s quite clear Poe engages lightspeed and crashes through the ice wall. Rey can still get mad about this, and surely this would be considered a dangerous move (look at what happened to Holdo). However, if we aren’t happy with the term “crash” I’m sure we could try alternatives.

I had originally voted for the Imperial shuttle, but I actually have changed my mind on it since then. Since this change was initiated based on a logical issue, I think that is the most important factor here - not thematic nuances. And the fact of the matter is that a shuttle that size is very unlikely to still be in one piece after an explosion of that magnitude. I could buy that a smaller craft made of reinforced durasteel made it fine.

Wasn’t Vader’s TIE an advanced model equipped with a hyperdrive and shields? It’s also possible many more people than just Vader had one of them on DSII.

EDIT: I read the Wiki, and apparently it was built out of a much sterner material, too! So it makes sense that it would survive the DSII explosion in one piece. I kinda doubt all three wings of the Imperial shuttle would be unscathed.

Crossing my fingers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15qvWYT6f_HyxH6Zy_4zq6gnT7rWnOAis/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1llI559GJ_gkVxDn-6QfShW1zaqDJUxt8/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_u1cgPYBP4KeMqm8_HbUEODhSsFUFV8e/view?usp=sharing

EDIT: Link has been corrected. Not sure how that happened.

I’m confident this should sound good: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jev1z9TWAaCgPcVHLtLN4reSrGc72htA/view?usp=sharing

Also, I’m still wondering about the Pasanna dialog. Did you just want the lines I’ve already generated, or are you planning on replacing all of Kylo’s dialog there like we did with Poe?

I believe the crawl is referring to Starkiller Base. But I agree that maybe it could be a bit more clear.

If that is their main “fortress” and base of operations, that would also explain why Finn assumes they are taking Rey there.

Hal 9000 said:

Could she whisper it?

Burbin has won me over on this one, lol.

Plus, I don’t think I’ll be able to get something like that because all of the source material I have of her from the games she is practically yelling most of the time. In all my generations with the label “whisper” (which were most of them) she never actually did that.

EDIT: Also, here is another take of Leia saying Rey - https://drive.google.com/file/d/19g8jnA_45i0Kce2L4FqB5Ei-TZ2HhD4D/view?usp=sharing
I’m not sure what context this is going in so lmk if it needs to change and how.

Fair enough. My thinking was that she was responding to Poe’s desire to shoot the snake. As in, she’s clarifying why he shouldn’t shoot it. From the beginning, I wasn’t entirely sure why Rey didn’t tell Finn or Poe anything at all. Even something as simple as: “Hold this. I’ve got an idea.”

Ah I see what we’re getting at now. I’d be willing to do all that once I get through our current checklist.

I believe all a good Rey line needed was a pinch of reverb to fit in: https://streamable.com/rex0nz

Weapon Line: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NaOhk_jklhflnIMCoETqs2yEI6EKqGOh/view?usp=sharing

Either one of these for the dangerous line (I have no preference):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BhhbMiKlX59NXIOaOUp-ga_2zCo6vkHe/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10UcGSsIea8z_l6T7X0YRZenucUQVp_3x/view?usp=sharing

And Hal, are you suggesting that I re-record all of Kylo’s lines there on Pasanna? Or just supply the ones that are new?

And I’m particularly satisfied with the first result on this next one:
https://streamable.com/bkqdm9

Alright, after about 50 generations I’ve narrowed Leia’s line down to these 3:
https://streamable.com/bk5i4q

I’m not sure what the use of changing that first part would be. Now, that second bit there is how I originally had it in my novelization. But then I watched the director’s commentary on the film, which surprisingly changed my mind. Having them be reverse images of each other (daughter of Vader, son of the Emperor) makes their dyad more interesting. Using the term “clone” would break that parallel. But I suppose it might be worth it to explain a bit of her father’s backstory.

The other thing we have to keep in mind is that her father looks nothing like Palpatine in the flashbacks. And we definitely don’t want him to say “a not-so-similar-looking clone of the Emperor”. Or drop the word “standcast” with absolutely no explanation what the hell that is. Lol.

Here are all the quietest lines I could get stringed together: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o93h9fWix3XZyEyxh4tuMsDfaR2XiYIG/view?usp=sharing

Here’s how the line would go:
Kylo: “Do you still count the days since your parents left? Such pain in you. Such anger. My mother doesn’t see the darkness in you. Your friends don’t either. But I do. When I offer you my hand again, you’ll take it.”