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From this: https://imgur.com/r/funny/uTemj

It looks beautiful! Wish I could donate to this.

I’m sure some sects are more aggressive than others. My childhood experience was quite mild, but since my father later became a full-blown fundamentalist, I’ve had the privilege of experiencing both extremes.

That makes a lot of sense then. The color has often been partially eaten away.

Octorox said:

That makes a lot of sense. The jump cut is nothing to loose sleep over anyway. Out of curiosity, what source are you using for the sabers? The silver screen edition?

There’s a few sources so far, including the SSE. There will probably be more before everything’s done 😉

I was a convert to Agnosticism from two religious parents, so my personal experience that there is a lot of resentment and aggression upon realizing that you’ve been fed a load of dogma your whole life. I think a lot of this has to do with the fear of Hellfire that is inculcated in every ‘Christian’ child. To combat this fear, I delved into the arguments of atheists such as Dawkins and Harris in an attempt to prove to myself that such a fear was unfounded, and I became angry that such a flawed belief system was able to inoculate itself from criticism. It’s a bit like a political ideology in that way.

Over time, fear is replaced with righteous anger and this gives way to some form of boredom with the whole affair. At least for me. I expect that Dawkins is perpetually in the anger stage.

I had made the decision to replace the sabers after seeing what happened when those shots were brightened to proper levels - they really don’t hold up in my opinion, being oversaturated and blobby due to degradation. In order to fix that, as well as the color variation between shots, I would have had to do complicated effects work anyway, and decided that I might as well have the original un-degraded elements. The same thing happened with the Star Destroyer flyover - the SE lasers and flashes were completely degraded and I replaced each one with film elements, so this is consistent with the goal of reverting degraded sources back to superior versions. I wouldn’t revert things like scene transitions because those were recomposited to be higher in quality than the original, on average, whereas the degraded lightsaber elements and blaster bolts were recomposited because the original negative had to be rebuilt and they decided that these elements were good enough. It wasn’t a creative decision to degrade these elements, and with more care they would have used an interpositive for these shots.

I’m rendering out a version of the lightsaber scenes that doesn’t have these changes, so I could make this available for everyone who wants it.

Whenever there is a difference between the 2004 and 2011 versions, I have chosen the source which is closer to the original. So for example, the 2011 version of the Greedo shootout stays, since it’s closer to Han shooting first than the 2004 version. The jump cut roll and the rocks around R2 are out, since they are changes deviating from the original.

So there is a method to this madness. Essentially, it’s merging all versions of the Special Edition (1997/2004/2011) together and showing this in the best possible light. Choices must be made.

That’s really good.

Now we just need the impersonator.

‘Oh, this is going to be easy!’
😉

During Order 66, pretty much every Jedi went out like a punk to handfuls of Clone Troopers, even the masters (One by a single starfighter, one by half a dozen clones on a bridge, one by a couple clones in a forest, one by two clones on speeder bikes). In the context of the movie, it is made to seem like Anakin and the rest of the Jedi in the temple were just overrun by literally hundreds of Clone Troops, in wave after wave. Only by ANH did Ben reveal that another Jedi participated in Anakin’s death. Arguably under this idea, Anakin lasted longer than the rest of the Jedi while sustaining attacks from all sides.

But I agree that changing things through opening crawls is inelegant, yet there’s really no other way to do it unless one was to fabricate a new scene.

How would a 3 second disclaimer make it harder for people to get these?

I do agree however that the acquisition process could be streamlined.

Spoiler warning: They’re actually the weird alien dudes from Star Trek: Beyond, only pretending to be Klingons.

Perhaps if there was a message at the beginning and end of the films ala what Hal 9000 does on his projects stating that fan projects are not to be bought and sold. An enterprising ebay-er would remove these, but they would have to re-encode the project and some of them might think it’s not worth the hassle. Other than that I don’t see what else to do.

Although we never see him teach anyone else, it is established that Jedi Masters do teach larger classes at the Jedi Temple, as illustrated by Yoda in Episode 2. Since Obi-wan is a master, it is logical to assume that he has such a duty as well which he could have been doing briefly right before Episode 3:

Episode III
Revenge of the Sith

As the Clone Wars ravage the galaxy, Anakin has returned home from his long campaign to Coruscant to become a Jedi Master.

Now without an apprentice, Master Obi-wan has become a teacher at the Jedi Temple, but he is eager to return to battle and end the war.

So when the Droid Leader General Grievous attacks Coruscant and captures the Chancellor, the two Jedi gladly embark on one last mission…

Since he’s teaching a large class of pupils and doesn’t care for the job, it’s somewhat understandable that we don’t see or hear anything about this in the movie proper - it’s a largely unwanted and uninteresting duty that he’s happy to ignore if he can. If he had a second apprentice on the other hand, that would need to be established in at least one scene.

In this edit Anakin is much more of a hero, since he wouldn’t slaughter Sand People or be suspicious of the Jedi. With these scenes removed, I think that he would play as a tortured yet ultimately heroic figure, and since there are no scenes of what happens to Anakin in the Jedi Temple, in the moment the overriding assumption would be that Anakin was killed through some means that is intended to be secret. Then in ANH, Obi-wan reveals that it was in fact one of his pupils in the Jedi Temple who betrayed and murdered Anakin, which makes complete sense in setting up a sequel where they need a secondary villain with a relationship to the hero. His apparent abandonment of these pupils in the beginning of Episode 3 has come back to haunt him, it seems. I think it’s as reasonable an assumption as the idea that Anakin fell to the dark side and immediately turned on the Jedi who practically raised him.

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Could you link to this individual so that we could report him as well?

JEDIT: I assume it’s this guy.

While I was at it, I went ahead and reported these douchenozzles as well:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Trilogy-3-Disc-Blu-Ray-Set-/182551738580?hash=item2a80ee78d4:g:P6EAAOSwB-1Y2V-L
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Trilogy-Complete-Edition-/182551739142?hash=item2a80ee7b06:g:~EcAAOSwA29Y5aFY
http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-TRILIOGY-DESPECIALIZED-BLU-RAY-THE-ONLY-WAY-TO-WATCH-/222499885871?hash=item33ce06d32f:g:MfAAAOSwjqVZC95A
This revblazjohn jerk has grossed 9,400 dollars on just the two auctions he has up at the moment.

Very good! That’s one less problem to deal with. Of course, their discussion of his new apprentice would need to be cut, but that’s no big deal.

On a related note, Revenge of the Sith: Reborn claims to preserve the revelation that Anakin is Darth Vader, but as the reviewer states, it’s not exactly a dramatic twist to reveal that the guy who turned to the Dark Side in this movie is actually the masked evil guy in the next movie.

Then your sauce is truly dead.

Possessed said:

People who put sugar in spaghetti sauce are monsters.

IsanRido said:

It’s funny how they put love last, like it was some sort of startling revelation and the tagline was supposed to be clever.

It could have been clever if the movie convinced us of the reasoning behind such a Jedi rule, and sold us on the romance that abrogated it.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Made myself some spaghetti for supper since no one wanted to cook and I wasn’t in the mood for leftover turkey.

The sauce was bitter.

Adding a spoonful of sugar makes the spaghetti sauce go down.

Yep 😃

I’ve noticed that the 1997 changes are often the most degraded shots in the film, which is strange because, as they are much more recent than the 1977 film, they should be in better shape. But more often than not I’m having to repair the color. I guess these additions were even more shoddily preserved than the original elements.

Emperor: "Now, young Skywalker…you will die."
Vader: "I don’t think so. No one can kill a Jedi."
Luke (Writhing in pain): “I wish that were so.”

Jetrell Fo said:

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36082

This John Podesta email has been verified as authentic. As it reads, it may be the reason the murder of Seth Rich is being looked at more closely than before. Not to mention, Seth Rich’s computer has gone missing. The FBI and DC Police keep referring the investigator back and forth between each other and no answers are ever provided.

Seth Rich and his family deserve justice.

Is murder really the first thing people jump to when they read this email chain? Because the first thing I assumed was that the Hillary campaign would consider firing someone whom they suspected of leaking info. That would be the next step up from ‘internal discipline’, I assume.

Also, from the NYT concerning the detective and Fox News commentator Wheeler:

The Rich family regrets hiring Mr. Wheeler and has objected to his many public comments.

Mr. Bauman, a communications professional who often represents Democratic causes and has worked as a pro bono spokesman for the family since last summer, said Wednesday afternoon that the family was asking that Fox News and the Fox affiliate retract their reports and apologize for damaging their sons legacy.

Mr. Bauman said that the Riches had retained Mr. Wheeler on the advice of Ed Butowsky, a Dallas businessman and conservative commentator who offered to pay for the investigator’s services.

Aaron Rich, Mr. Rich’s brother, said in an email Wednesday that Mr. Wheeler had “discredited himself as an objective investigator” and had lost the confidence of the family. He said that the politicization of his brother’s death had been “painful” and “debilitating.”

“Why everyone feels the need to use his death for their own motives is beyond us,” he wrote. “We simply want to find his killers and grieve. Instead, we are stuck having to constantly fight against non-facts, baseless allegations, and general stupidity to defend my brother’s name and legacy.”

He continued, “This only prevents us from moving forward in our grieving and distracts from answering the only question that matters — Who murdered my brother and my parents’ son, Seth?”

This transition gave me some headaches:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/210167

Status Update:

Reel 1: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 100%
Reel 2: Preliminary Grade 90% - Finalized 60%
Reel 3: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 90%
Reel 4: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 100%
Reel 5: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 93%
Reel 6: Preliminary Grade 85% - Finalized 85%
Total Preliminary: 95.8% - Finalized 88%

I had been getting burned out on this lately, so I worked on other projects for a while. But it’s inching closer, and I’m determined to finish soon. 😃

-R2 will continue hiding behind rocks for the entirety of the Saga.

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