NeverarGreat

RogueLeader said:

NeverarGreat said:

Even when I first saw the movie, I thought that the journey to Luke should have been longer. After all, the map shows a lot of twists and turns, so I imagine there would be some obstacles and pit stops on the way to that remote island. With that in mind, here’s a very rough idea of how this could be implemented:

https://vimeo.com/247210517
Password: rey

There’s not nearly enough footage for this to be feasible yet, but perhaps by the time this trilogy is over I can revisit the idea 😉

I know it’s been awhile since you posted this but I’m really in love with this idea. I think it has a very adventurous feel to it and I think it would be a fun addition. It definitely would feel more like a journey.

I do know that there are one or two more Falcon in hyperspace shots that could be used now from TLJ, but I wonder if for some of the other shots could be made by either making some CG space environments, or even using some high quality images from Hubble, Cassini, etc. as the background and then inserting a blender model of the TFA Falcon flying through them. I know there are some pretty decent models, like this one: https://sketchfab.com/models/798f0d3be4524c8c86b77a52a88570f8

That’s a pretty good idea. I don’t have the skill to make it professional and seamless, but maybe someone with the skills would be interested.

Another option would be using shots of the Falcon in TFA or TLJ such as the escape from Starkiller Base or flying through the crystal caverns, and replacing the background with nebulas and asteroids.

MalàStrana said:

NeverarGreat said:

EPISODE IIV
THE FORCE AWAKENS

I’m loving this roman numeral 😉

Whoops. 😃

trimboNZ said:

ChainsawAsh said:

For what it’s worth, in the novelization, Poe sets a hyperspace entry point before Leia and Holdo retake command of the ship. That entry point is never changed, so when Holdo is alone on the ship waiting to die, she notices it - and because the ships have kept moving that whole time, the entry point is now behind the First Order fleet. That’s what gives her the idea to try it - because the ship will be accelerating to near lightspeed prior to hitting the hyperspace entry point.

So the “hyperspace ramming” actually occurs before the ship enters hyperspace, while the ship is accelerating to near-lightspeed in realspace.

It was basically her seeing where the entry point was plotted in relation to the position of the fleet, getting the idea, and going “Huh, wonder if this will work? Can’t hurt to try since I’m dead at this point anyway.”

Huh, that’s a fairly good in-universe explanation. So it’s not the hyperspace travel itself that makes the collision but the “flicker of pseudomotion”, as Zahn puts it.

EDIT: That could also go some way towards addressing my biggest problem with that scene - why no one thought to do that maneuver before losing 90% of their fleet. They couldn’t until the entry point was sufficiently far away behind the First Order.

Even Zahn states with the ‘pseudomotion’ that the ship isn’t really accelerating to the speed of light, otherwise it would be, you know, actual motion.

Hyperspace is a way of getting around the infinite energy required to accelerate a ship to the speed of light. Requiring ships to accelerate to light speed to enter it defeats the purpose.

The big issues with Hillary that I heard during the campaign were:

1. She would be hawkish on foreign policy, leading to escalating tensions with our enemies.
2. She was potentially corrupt based on potential pay-for-play activities in her organization.
3. She would show preferential treatment to family members, based on her daughter’s position.
4. She would play fast and loose with state secrets based on her handling of her email account.

Just a few examples of what Trump has done in office with regards to these issues:

1. Threatened war with a nuclear power.
2. Is actually corrupt based on hundreds of past and ongoing real-estate transactions with foreign governments.
3. Displays breathtaking nepotism, with only one example being how Jared Kushner was somehow able to operate on temporary security clearance for over a year before it was revoked due to being a dangerous security risk.
4. Actually gave Russian officials top secret intelligence that compromised Israeli operations, leading to our allies withholding similar intelligence from the United States for fear of leaks.

So yeah, I think Trump is a whole lot worse.

DominicCobb said:

Gothamknight said:

trimboNZ said:
Do you think we’re likely to see more weaponized hyperdrives in canon now?

A great concept . . . that unfortunately seems out of place in the SW universe. If such a thing can be done, why don’t warships have hyperdrive missiles?

I think the idea is that the size of the Raddus is what allowed it to do such damage.

The problem with that scene from a scientific perspective is that it’s strongly implied that a Hyperdrive is literally able to accelerate objects up to and past the speed of light, instead of opening a tunnel into another dimension.

Even a paperclip accelerated to 99% the speed of light would do catastrophic damage to the Supremacy.

A ship the size of the Raddus going the speed of light would be a more deadly weapon than the Death Star.

Where do ships get the energy to go so fast, and if they have this vast energy, why don’t they have more effective weapons? Furthermore, if Hyperspace travel turns any ship into a planet-decimating missile, every space-faring planet would long have been turned into Swiss cheese from ships coming out of hyperspace slightly too late.

This was all a lot more simple when Hyperdrives were just used for travel, and everyone could concoct their own reasons for why they weren’t used as weapons.

Mrebo said:

moviefreakedmind said:

yhwx said:

Mrebo said:

If that’s the sort of people they elect, better they don’t have national representation.

If Donald J. Trump is the sort of people Americans elect, better if they didn’t have international representation.

Hey, keep in mind that he lost our popular vote by about 3 million. Americans didn’t choose this man. Presumably the dumbass pile of crap in question was elected popularly.

Americans chose him. The alternative was no better. yhwx has a point and maybe we don’t deserve representation at all.

SilverWook said:

NeverarGreat said:

I remember Warriors of Virtue. Barely.

I have it on Laserdisc, and there’s a preservation project going on somewhere. Need to find out what’s going on with that.

I’d be interested in it.

Politics.

I remember Warriors of Virtue. Barely.

I remember when EU writers would refer to the droids phonetically See-Threepio and Artoo-Deetoo. So even here the emphasis is on letter sounds and not the letters themselves.

I agree that this line breaks immersion even when there are other examples of individual letters being spoken in Star Wars, and think that it’s not so much the substance of the line but the tone. In Star Wars, even the most absurd names are spoken with sincerity as a way of investing the audience in the reality of the world. When a character refuses to take even their opponent’s name seriously, how can the audience take it seriously? It’s very much like Star Lord challenging Ronan the Accuser to a dance-off, except that The Last Jedi isn’t supposed to be a comedy.

Short answer, I get it.

Gentlemen you can’t fight here, this is the (Star) War room!

oojason said:

and what was happening on 10th March 2003 - http://www.mybirthdayfacts.com/#facts

I believe that’s 1960, or they’re really misunderestimating the average home price at $14,928.

I was prepared for a skyscraper bunny-length post, but this is only a moderately long post.

Take it to the Parroty Names Thread

The Starlight Project Part 2

https://xxiicoko.deviantart.com/art/Rey-x-Poe-588212186
It’s like Poe+rey.
Also, someone take that username.

DuracellEnergizer said:

NeverarGreat said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

Yeah, that’s me.

FTBFY

You betrayed me. You’re not good. You’re just a chicken.

*cheep-cheep-cheep*

I’m gonna show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world…without you.

DougieP said:

NeverarGreat said:

The Falcon is stitched into the ST’s DNA. No amount of rotoscoping can change that, since almost every scene with the Falcon relies on it being that particular vessel of nostalgia.

I’m not sure whether or not you mean nostalgic for the viewer or the characters but ether way, I completely disagree.

If you mean for the characters - There are only two scenes as far as I remember that reference nostalgia so far. One with Luke entering and turning the lights on and “Chewie, we’re home”. These can easily be cut or, if really needed, changed. It’s not like they constantly talk about the old days while aboard it.

If you mean for the viewer - While the final film isn’t out yet, I’ve started doing some background replacement in advance for my “Sequel Trilogy Redux” and my son became interested so I showed him parts of the film that I thought might hold his attention while I pointed out characters and names. One was the escape from Jakku and he really liked it, mainly BB8 who he calls “Baby 8”. At no point did he say that “the Falcon held the scene together due to nostalgia”. To him, it was a new ship, it could have been any ship. It really doesn’t matter what ship it is, the Falcon isn’t necessary.

The only scene that I would agree with you on is with how Han picks up Rey, Finn and BB8. The Falcon is needed for Han to be searching for it and he found it because it can be easily tracked (which is flimsy anyway, I can poke holes in that). But since I want to have Rey follow BB8s instructions on where their base is and head straight there, where Han is still a general, this whole scene is scrapped for me. Falcon not needed.

Anakin Starkiller said:

I think the trilogy should have its own ship. The Prequels had Padme’s ships, which, while different in each film, all had the same interior, as well as the same chrome texture on the exterior. The Originals had the Millenium Falcon, obviously. The Sequels have…also the Falcon. How about the Falcon is destroyed when it crashes on Starkiller Base. All subsequent scenes featuring it would have another ship in its place. I really hope Episode IX introduces a ship like this to make adding more natural, not to mention not having to design it ourselves. The main issue will be rotoscoping the characters whenever they’re in the Falcon cockpit to place them in the new ship’s cockpit instead. That would probably be a nightmare. We could simply cut most of those shots, since they aren’t that important. We’d be cutting the shot of Luke in it anyways, since all he does is look at the familiar cockpit and retrieve the dice, none of which works if it isn’t the Falcon.

If this were done by someone else and it was good enough, I’d consider asking permission to use it. For me, however, it’s not a big enough deal for me to want it changed since I think there is so much other work that needs done. Whoever did this would probably need to have experience in 3D modeling/animation which I don’t have. Maybe the OP does?

I didn’t mean to imply that every scene of the Falcon is there purely because of nostalgia, just that its initial inclusion was very much for that purpose (and to get Han on board). But once the Falcon is now the ST ship of choice, there’s really no way to change its identity.

Listing all the scenes which rely on it being Han’s old ship:
-Han and Chewie finding and boarding the Falcon
-Han complaining about the compressor, and Rey’s solution
-The Tracking Ball reference and Game table
-Han thinking about hiring Rey to look after the Falcon

-Luke mourning Han’s death and the metal dice
-The Falcon drawing TIEs away at Crait (Requires Kylo’s hatred of Han and the Falcon)

Anakin Starkiller said:

Yeah, that’s me.

FTBFY

The Falcon is stitched into the ST’s DNA. No amount of rotoscoping can change that, since almost every scene with the Falcon relies on it being that particular vessel of nostalgia.

Markdown is the pathway to many abilities, some considered to be unnatural.

For each generation of film the resolution decreases, so even if the 35mm negative could resolve 8K (dubious), then a release print would be lucky to resolve more than 2K. Scanning a release print in 4K is usually more than sufficient to capture all the detail in the print.

At first I thought Ridley’d forgotten the necklace, but after watching it again I caught it.

A shame it’s not more prominent, but wonderful and seamless work nonetheless.

Not at all. I also wonder why Ben took his boots with him into the netherworld.

The answer in both cases is probably that the ground in the afterlife is squishy and gross.

There’s something about Filoni’s Star Wars sensibility that rubs me the wrong way. Having watched Rebels, it feels remarkably sterile, existing in this purgatory between epic adventure and serialized drama.

The shrinking of the sides of Yoda’s mouth has always looked odd to me, even when Ady did it in ESB:R. But it is a bit more lifelike, so it’s a tradeoff.

Another thing that might make him more like the ESB puppet would be to reduce the highlights in the eyes.

I just saw that Blade Runner 2049 won an Oscar for Visual Effects.
Congratulations 😉