Am I really the only one who LOVES the greens?
Nope, I love’m too. 😃
I just noticed that everyone behind Luke rolls their eyes at him, like, where were you when we were fighting the Empire, doing handstands with a frog?
Perhaps the reasoning behind Trump’s authoritarian actions is not so much that he is authoritarian as much as he is merely incapable of being a politician. Politicians such as George W Bush, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton moved to more moderate, centrist positions during their campaigns (there wasn’t far to go with Hillary), and the reason for this was to appeal to a broad swath of the electorate. That is the purely expedient reason for moderate positions, but from the standpoint of a professional politician, it is their job to represent all of their constituents. Certainly this gives rise to the caricature of the two-faced lying politician, but the profession of politics requires politicians to be all things for all people, at least in appearance. Donald Trump apparently doesn’t recognize this imperative, and appears to represent nobody except for his fanciful imaginary self. He is the product of a hyper-partisan political environment where being a standard politician is not just passe, it’s a death sentence. Now not only the Republicans, but also some Democrats are beginning to see that they will quickly find themselves out of a job if they make deals with ‘the other side’, regardless of how reasonable these deals may be.
In the broader sense, it’s frightening to someone like myself who leans liberal (along with about half of the country) to see the liberal voices in our government so completely out of power. It wasn’t always this way. Even back in the ancient past of the Obama administration, there was still an attempt by the majority party to achieve bipartisan support for legislation, even if the opposition stonewalled them at every turn.
On a state level, I would often research all of the candidates for North Carolina office, regardless of whether they had a D or an R next to their names. I even voted for a few Republicans based on their individual merits. However, since the power grab by the Republicans after the election of a democratic governor, I cannot in good conscience vote for anyone with an ‘R’ next to their name in a state election, if this is the Game of Thrones style politics that they employ. It saddens me to do this, and this has been happening throughout the country of late.
There is cause for optimism, perhaps. I hope that this hyperpartisanship, driven by extremely biased voters being fed by information echo chambers of their own creation, is merely the effect of the breakdown of the monolithic US media that began in the 50’s. People now know that they can choose their news outlets, their view of the world. There will always be bastions of ignorance and false narratives in this nation, there always have been. Conspiracy theories are sometimes right, such as the massive surveillance by the NSA which vindicated the tin-foil hat folks some years ago. The prevailing narrative is sometimes wrong, such as predictions of Hillary’s victory last year. But perhaps more people will become united in their understanding that ALL news is worthy of skepticism, and work together for a nuanced and mature understanding of issues.
Or we could just squabble over every slight and be filled with righteous indignation at everything ‘the other’ is doing to this great nation, thus justifying our own position. That’s cool too.
I don’t understand any of the decisions that were made.
I notice that even in the GOUT there is a lot of variation in the Death Star walls. I suppose this is further evidence that they were always inconsistent.
You guys are making all this up. None of it happened in Star Wars so it couldn’t have happened in The Rehash Awakens.
Now I want hash browns again.
On another note, I was thinking about how we really don’t get any Force abilities from Leia except with her reaction to Han’s death, so what if the crawl established that she was relying on her visions for knowledge of the Starkiller? This would give the Republic good reason to ignore her and think she was crazy:
Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the fallen Empire with a weapon of unimaginable power.
Troubled by visions of devastation and ridiculed by the New Republic, General Leia Organa mobilizes a covert RESISTANCE with allies from across the galaxy.
Desperate for her brother’s help, Leia has sent her most trusted pilot on a daring mission to Jakku, where a clue has been discovered to Luke’s whereabouts…
It might be confusing, it was just a thought. This edit leaves some holes, and I’m not sure if there’s a way to fix all of them.
And it’s true, Poe’s attack is perfunctory, but it feels similar to Rey’s battle with Kylo. Han isn’t chained up somewhere while Kylo twirls his mustache and laughs maniacally, Han is dead. Rey really has no reason to fight Kylo other than he’s a threat that must be dealt with. All she has is vengeance and the will to survive, there is no way to win everything. Both Rey and Poe can only hope for a Pyrrhic victory at this point.
I would cut as much of Poe’s trench run as possible, to both cut down on ANH references and to downplay the perfunctory nature of the mission.
It’s intended to be a surprise to the Resistance, certainly. But remember, the briefing scene comes directly after Hux’s psychotic rant against the Republic and the senate in particular. So in juxtaposing two conflicting pieces of information, the audience will hopefully understand that the Republic is always the true target, with the Resistance deliberately misinformed so as to lull the Republic into a false sense of security.
As for the problem with blowing up the Starkiller, I assumed that it would have multiple uses after absorbing the star, it is logical to destroy the planet. Also, nobody has called off the Resistance attack, and why would they? Even if the planet had no further shots to fire, there is still a massive amount of FO equipment there.
I see a problem with this edit as it stands now. Since the Republic still stands after the Resistance learns of the Starkiller and its capabilities, there should be some scene where the Resistance warns the Republic, or at least makes some mention of their danger. Otherwise, it seems like the Resistance is extremely negligent in their duties and allows for this atrocity to unfold at such an epic scale. At the very least, if the Republic thought that it was in danger, they would have evacuated the government to a secret location.
There may be a way to easily fix this, however. During the Resistance briefing scene, simply re-insert the line from Leia that ‘our system is the target’ (eliminate ‘next’, obviously). This way, the Republic will assume that the First Order means only to destroy Leia and the Resistance, a group that the Republic dislikes anyway. Then we could record a line that is said by someone in the crowd to the effect of ‘The Republic won’t help us!’, and then re-insert C-3PO’s line: ‘Without the Republic fleet, we’re done for!’.
It’s good. 😃
@sirRidley, yes, the Poe was in motion during ‘weapon’, so there’s little I could do to make that sharper. I tried to make ‘the weapon’ into ‘a weapon’, but it sounded unnatural and I realized that he basically does say ‘a’ since the ‘th’ part is blended with the ‘with’ sound.
Anyone see this? I’m looking to see if there is any further info on it.
I don’t know the policy of Planned Parenthood regarding ultrasounds, but it sounds like they are required when having an abortion. I don’t see how this is particularly shocking, but again I don’t know. The comments on the website certainly give me pause.
There’s so much that people assume that they must accomplish/be in a lifetime that it’s good to sometimes consider the only real imperative there is. Anything after that is a bonus, in my book.
I think ‘The Last Jedi’ refers to Luke abandoning the conceptual ideals of the Jedi, which is what led to their downfall in the first place (and possibly what led to his failure with Ben and the loss of his students).
Luke will be the Last Jedi because he abandons those ideals when he trains Rey. Rey’s training will embrace both the dark and the light, but only in an attempt to do what is right and just. We saw him sort of embrace that in ROTJ, and maybe that scared him, but after losing all of his students and reexamineing the ideals of past Jedi, he realizes that suppressing the dark side isn’t the best way to go. So he teaches Rey to embrace love, and to accept possesion and attachment as a natural part of life and the force.
So he, in the end, truly is the last Jedi. That would be a good way to both acknowledge the prequels, but also distance itself from them.
But I do think he will at least make it to Episode IX
If this is how it shakes out, Ep 8 may become one of my favorite Star Wars films. I just hope we’re not building a brilliant movie in our heads only to find out that there’s nothing more to it than Luke deciding not to train Rey. Keep those expectations low!
Bah, I’ve worked for hours on this, and nothing fits. It’s fine though, I’ve realized that ‘Finn’s familiar with the weapon system, he worked on the base’ is audibly identical to ‘Finn’s familiar with a weapon system, he worked on the base’.
So I’m fine with leaving it as it is, and leave it up to interpretation as to whether or not Leia was aware of its existence before this moment.
Not a slight to your writing, that place just feels like the Dagobah tree. And I say that as someone who has written a few things there. 😃
But that’s where writing goes to die.
This point about banning countries he doesn’t have business dealings in is probably a bit coincidental, since his Executive order used an Obama-era list to determine the countries to ban. This list merely compiled countries with significant terrorist activity, and was forced past Obama’s desk on an omnibus spending bill by congress.
http://www.snopes.com/trump-immigration-order-obama/
The thing with Executive Orders is that they must reference specific legislation, since it is not (supposedly) in the Executive’s power to legislate. Now I would bet that if Trump didn’t have business in Saudi Arabia or the UAE, he would have found some legislation which included those countries. As it is, we can only speculate as to the why of all this.
Here it is with the truncated line:
https://mega.nz/#!jc0QGAZB!O8P8q_gTpxa5tXwtlk8ypPUEUAc59gUxFrCbpxhwtlc
I uploaded it to Mega because Vimeo crashes Firefox when I go to the upload page. Apparently it works fine with IE.
The last video I posted removes that reference. 😃
If that word change tips the scales to including it in the edit, I’ll give it another try 😃
The Project Blu GOUT upscale was still my go-to version of Star Wars for my pre-TFA marathon. I guess that’s just sooooo 2015.
JEDIT: Dre, your LUT may over-represent the green just a tad.
It would be very useful in plenty of edits, so I’d say if you’re already altering the film to suit your desires, why not use the technology? Faneditors already alter character lines, dub in their own, etc. Where I can see this being really problematic is in the realm of video/audio evidence used in court. When you can mimic anyone, you can frame anyone.
EXT. NABOO – NABOO PUBLIC CEMETERY – EVENING
Deep in the silent, empty cemetery, working alone under the cold evening light of Naboo’s three moons, DARK LORD OF THE SITH DARTH VADER is busy exhuming a months-old grave.
With the SCRAPE of metal against wood, Vader realizes he has finally reached the coffin. Clearing earth away with his shovel, he uncovers the lid of the casket. Then wedging the blade of the shovel under the lid, he pries it open. White moonlight falls into the open casket, illuminating the pale form of PADME AMIDALA’S WORM-RIDDEN DECAYING CORPSE.
Tossing the shovel aside, Vader reaches down and takes hold of his dead wife. Hefting the cadaver out of the hole, he begins to waltz about the cemetery grounds with the limp figure in his arms.
DARTH VADER: Dance with the dead in my dreams. Listen to their hallowed screams. The dead have taken my soul. Temptation’s lost all control.
PADME’S CORPSE: This is no dream! This is real happening!
DARTH VADER: NOOOOOOOOOO!
“^He’s embraced the absurd. Don’t expect to gain any conventional understanding from his posts.”
-Duracell
The circle is now complete.
Sorry? This is exactly what I wanted.
Mua ha ha.
Time to throw that GOUT superresolution and LUT together, render it out, and call it a day. 😉
