NeverarGreat

This feels political, even if it’s a comic about a fictitious land:

There are a lot of compression artifacts in the video, so much so that I can’t comment with certainty on the dirt and grain in all shots, but overall it looks quite good. Some shots are very crisp and clean, others are grainy as I expect they would have been in the theater. The highlights seem clipped on Hoth, but perhaps that’s just because of the colorspace. All in all, I wouldn’t mind this being my go-to version 😉

It’s not exactly easy for most people to burn a blu-ray disc, heck I still just watch Despecialized on my computer. Also, it’s not obvious where to get the how-to guide on burning Despecialized to disc. For example, on the first page there are several broken links:

The ISO image can be burned to a DVD-DL and should work in most Blu-Ray players.

To burn, you can use image burn following thse instructions: http://onlineitpro.com/?p=181

and

More information can be found here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD/topic/12713/

Also, you must first go to the Ultimate Introductory Guide (an excellent source btw) then another site to get to the disc burning instructions.

I expect that this is too much for many people who aren’t expecting so many technical steps. I think it could be more streamlined from the first post, perhaps listing the resources needed before detailing the steps kind of like the ingredients in a recipe.

Interesting stuff. I don’t think we’ve ever seen an X-wing in that situation before.

This guy is still up to no good: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Trilogy-3-Disc-Blu-Ray-Set-/182472276426?hash=item2a7c31f9ca:g:6dsAAOSwa~BYWjo2

I’m sure I’m not the first to report him, so we clearly need a louder voice for ebay to hear us.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

TV’s Frink said:

The Trump Administration can’t shake this Russia thing…I guess because they keep lying about it and at some point lies do actually matter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-08/trump-met-russian-ambassador-during-campaign-at-speech-reception

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/carter-page-russia-trip-trump-corey-lewandowski-235784

The first event seems exceedingly benign, and reads as a form of ‘gotcha’ politics.

Granted…in isolation. However, there’s this disturbing pattern of Trump and his pals lying or misleading about Russia.

Yeah, and that’s just the problem. For people who have the mental model that Trump is a serial liar (most of the Democratic party), this is just one more data point to buttress the argument. However, for those with the mental model that Trump has been the unfair target of a smear campaign by the mainstream media (which is most of the Republican party), this is further proof that the MSM has it out for him. After all, would you be able to remember everyone you shook hands with at every event if you were running for president? So continually reporting on this may have the opposite of the intended effect for the people they most want to convince.

I might not be able to remember everyone’s hand I shook, but if I was asked over and over if I shook anyone’s hand who also had a hat on, I’d probably either remember or say I couldn’t remember. I wouldn’t keep insisting I hadn’t if I had or if I wasn’t sure.

I think anyone in Trump’s position would be more cautious with their words, but then again, this is Trump. He’s not a reasonable, cautious, or political person, and got elected because of it, so he thinks that he doesn’t need to police his own statements. He’s largely right. To the extent that his lies and exaggerations damage the dignity, intelligence, and decorum of the presidency, they are seen as features of his presidency by many of those who elected him. I think that is an incredibly short-sighted line of thinking, since the government is now seen as an asylum for the incompetent and the delusional. If his lies become prosecutable, he should be removed from power before he does something genuinely destructive to the country.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

TV’s Frink said:

The Trump Administration can’t shake this Russia thing…I guess because they keep lying about it and at some point lies do actually matter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-08/trump-met-russian-ambassador-during-campaign-at-speech-reception

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/carter-page-russia-trip-trump-corey-lewandowski-235784

The first event seems exceedingly benign, and reads as a form of ‘gotcha’ politics.

Granted…in isolation. However, there’s this disturbing pattern of Trump and his pals lying or misleading about Russia.

Yeah, and that’s just the problem. For people who have the mental model that Trump is a serial liar (most of the Democratic party), this is just one more data point to buttress the argument. However, for those with the mental model that Trump has been the unfair target of a smear campaign by the mainstream media (which is most of the Republican party), this is further proof that the MSM has it out for him. After all, would you be able to remember everyone you shook hands with at every event if you were running for president? So continually reporting on this may have the opposite of the intended effect for the people they most want to convince.

TV’s Frink said:

The Trump Administration can’t shake this Russia thing…I guess because they keep lying about it and at some point lies do actually matter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-08/trump-met-russian-ambassador-during-campaign-at-speech-reception

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/carter-page-russia-trip-trump-corey-lewandowski-235784

The first event seems exceedingly benign, and reads as a form of ‘gotcha’ politics.

The second event, that of Carter Page’s trip to Russia, is less benign, though it may appear so on the surface. Page did indeed give a commencement speech at the New Economic School in Russia, but this article raises some troubling questions. From the article:

'Page said he’s visiting Russia in a private capacity, and has no meetings planned with the Russian government. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Page won’t see any Kremlin officials. He isn’t representing the Trump campaign on his trip to Russia, campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said by e-mail.

Even so, Page may make informal contact with the Russian establishment, according to Sergei Markov, a political consultant to Putin’s staff. The Kremlin is looking for ways to reach out to the Trump camp, he said.

“Trump is promising an end to constant pressure against Russia and we’re interested in finding out if this is just a populist promise or something more serious,” Markov said by phone.’

So to summarize: the Russian government admitted that it would probably contact Page during his trip in order to reach out to Trump, even after Page claimed that he was going as a private citizen. Moving on:

‘Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, is viewed warily in Russia. Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the foreign-affairs committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said she probably will provoke worsening tensions with Russia if she becomes president. At the same time, while Trump offers the tantalizing prospect of better relations, he’s also scarily unpredictable, Kosyachov said in an interview.’

This suggests that the Kremlin was looking for some way to control Trump’s ‘unpredictable’ nature at the time. Back to Page’s commencement speech:

‘During his speech, in which he appeared to defend the authoritarian model in former Soviet Central Asian republics, Page cited a 2012 decree by Putin and a speech by a Chinese leader. China and Russia, he said, have policies based on the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit. That has worked to the advantage of all parties in their relationships, he said.’

Hmm. So this was Trump’s foreign relations expert during the campaign, a man who doesn’t care for American values of democracy and anti-corruption rhetoric, and who values policies of ‘mutual benefit’ between (preferably authoritarian) states. Anyone who knows anything about Chinese government knows that it is dependent on personal favors to grease the wheels of power.

This article was written in July of last year, and I hadn’t heard of it until now. This is what is so frustrating about the mainstream media narrative and the Democratic establishment: they focus on gotcha politics and bare speculation while failing to provide an in-depth and nuanced reporting of the philosophies underlying political figures, philosophies which are based on the words and actions of these people and as such cannot be spun into spurious claims. In the case of Carter Page, his philosophy is much more troubling than the Russia Dossier because it is plain to see.

I think this Ohrai poster for ROTJ is a cut above most of the posters, but I’ve never seen it used for a DVD or Blu-ray case. It would be really grand to have a full set of Ohrai Blu-ray cases. Perhaps this more impressionistic take on the well-known poster could be for Empire:

And this classic could be Star Wars:

Heck, there’s even a cool one for TPM:

Anyway, just an idea. Now that I have posted it, someone will undoubtedly show me that this set has been done.

doubleKO said:

NeverarGreat said:

Empire Strikes Out

DominicCobb said:

Well “his fate will be the same as ours” is also prophetic

Obi-wan - died on the Death Star
Palpatine - died on the Death Star II
Anakin - died on the Death Star II

Not that that should have anything to do with whether you cut it or not.

Palpatine Force Ghost confirmed.

TV’s Frink said:

Ryan-SWI said:

Mocata said:

I guess it’s possible, it would be interesting even if he just got to flesh out an existing plan for the narrative. But I’m just suspicious that this is all a Lucasfilm board room creation after the 2-3 named writers on TFA. It’s probably all just done with a committee.
“I am not a committee” - Rian Johnson, probably.

Hey come on, TFA wasn’t made in a boardroom, it was clearly made with time, love and care. That’s why a messy script was rushed through production with “A New Hope” scribbled out on the front.

Yeah, you listen to JJ talk about the film for two hours and it’s clear how little he cares about it.

I don’t question his love for the originals.

But after watching the Making Of feature for TFA, I came away with less appreciation for JJ, not more. He comes across as an entertainer, a guy who works well with others and plays to the crowd. This is all well and good, and is a vital element of any movie, but there has to be some underlying purpose for a moment other than ‘Isn’t it great to see Han and Chewie again?’. I feel like some of the deeper themes of the movie, such as the meta-commentary on Star Wars fandom, may not have even been intentional. To be fair, there is some question as to how much of the meaning of ANH was intentional vs manufactured by audiences in the decades since, but Lucas’s film didn’t lack for ideas.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that TFA is fun. If it isn’t any more than that, that’s fine. I look forward to what Rian brings to the story.

With the quality of fan restorations becoming available for Star Wars, I don’t much care what official product they release - no matter what, Star Wars won’t be a ‘lost film’.

There are a great many less-well-known films needing preservation or restoration, and there are probably a lot where a fan restoration is necessary. I hope that in the near future they get the attention they deserve.

That’s it all right.

I got it from this thread http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Retro-Star-Wars-Thread/id/51402/page/2

…however, the original image seems to be gone. It was definitely a Japanese promo artwork of some kind. It probably looks like MAD because of his drunken smile, which is why it is my avatar in the first place 😃

“The Way to Eden” had me in disbelief, but as for a bizarre episode that isn’t necessarily bad, an example that comes to mind is “Masks” from TNG season 7. Also “Phantasms”. Really, anything involving Data acting weird.

TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

Who said CPY was coming back?

I like how he never responded.

Some people are saying CPY is coming back. Just a desperate ploy by out-of-power Disney to distract. SAD!

Must have missed that response.
CPY was the attempt to bring Yoda back in '99. That desperate ploy was by Lucasfilm, of course.

Stopping the flow of these images because they are decidedly non-random will satisfy the letter of the law, but their content justifies its spirit.

Possessed said:

Could you imagine if there was an empty tunnel all the way through the earth. If you feel into it would you just be caught in an infinite loop? Would you fall from one end to the other repeatedly or would you end up suspended somewhere in the center? If you don’t end up suspended then where would gravity switch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN-FfJKgis8

I have it on good authority that the Earth is hollow, and if you access the interior via the secret Antarctic tunnels you will see a wonderland of prehistoric life and a thriving Nazi society, complete with armored zeppelins.

DominicCobb said:

NeverarGreat said:

All of these exhumations for new stories - from Creepy Puppet Yoda to CGI Tarkin to Nu-Jabba - were all flashing red lights indicating the need for new characters. Not that I have anything against bringing them back, but at some point it becomes easier to just write around them and give us something new instead of attempting to live up to unassailable performances of old.

I get what you’re saying, but there is something to creating continuity between the stories. In this case, Han and Jabba clearly have a history (with the character in the films always representing the world Solo came from). He doesn’t have to be in the film, of course, but if the story calls for it, why not?

Anyway, if we do get a puppet Jabba, that’d be a real sight to see.

I’d be interested in seeing it as well if they’re really going for broke trying to outdo the original puppet and if there is a substantial story reason for such a character. If that’s the case, it makes sense to attempt it, however it irks me when major characters have cameos just because ‘hey its what’s-his-name!’. I believe that a character is appreciated for what they bring to the story, so when a character is reused and brings nothing to the story, that character is diminished to me.

TV’s Frink said:

TV’s Frink said:

doubleofive said:

imperialscum said:

This film was intrinsically bad idea.

IMPSCUM COMES FROM THE FUTURE TO WARN US OF BAD MOVIES

UNLESS YOURE THE ACTUAL TVS FRINK COMPUTER YOURE STEALING MY ALL MY BITS AND BYTES

FIXED

THE FAILING TVS FRINK COMPUTER CONSTANTLY GENERATES ALTERNATIVE POSTS - SAD!

DuracellEnergizer said:

The thread gods are pleased this day.

Thanks!

I adjusted the dinner scene somewhat, so the updated link is above and in the first post of the thread.

I think it sounds good, but then again I only have a stereo setup.