RicOlie_2

SilverWook said:

Just got an idea from something said in the Random Thoughs thread. The whole celebration montage at the end could include shots of Hoth and Dagobah. Just an empty panorama with the loud sound of crickets or wind.

"Weesa free!" cut off by blaster fire?

Tie fighters swooping in on the Coruscant crowd before cutting back to Endor?

Love the "Weesa free!" Gungan getting killed and I think it would be funny to show unimportant planets. It doesn't make sense that Tatooine would be celebrating (unless they're belatedly rejoicing over the death of Jabba), since the Empire hardly affected that planet, so maybe use the SE aerial shot of Mos Eisley when Luke and Ben fly into town (I think there's an aerial/semi-aerial shot there, but I could be wrong...) instead of the celebration scene--or use a desert shot with nothing in view. To make it clear what planets you are showing if you do something like that you could have the names of the planets pop up on screen, which would enable you to use non-Star Wars planets without confusing the audience. I think you would achieve a better effect if you eliminated the music for the celebration scene.

I think you should use shots of everyone going about their everyday business as much as possible, to show that no one really cares. USe planets from Star Trek and other sci-fi shows, and maybe throw in earth too.

RicOlie_2 said:

I'm surprised that the Old Republic series wasn't mentioned in this thread, considering its popularity. I though Deceived and Revan were pretty good, but the clichéd superweapon was used in Fatal Alliance which detracted from the overall quality of the book. I didn't enjoy Annihilation as much as the first two, but it was still quite good.

To clarify, I am referring to the books, not the video games on which they are based as I have never played them and they have been mentioned in this thread.

I'm surprised that the Old Republic series wasn't mentioned in this thread, considering its popularity. I though Deceived and Revan were pretty good, but the clichéd superweapon was used in Fatal Alliance which detracted from the overall quality of the book. I didn't enjoy Annihilation as much as the first two, but it was still quite good.

Anchorhead never did get around to writing a review on Scoundrels...

LOL! I'm flattered ;)

^Haha! No, that works too.

Oh, and it means that I can wipe Jar Jar out of my canon or give him a completely different personality if I so wish. According to my canon, there is no contradiction because everything is just a different interpretation or an embellishment of the "real" story. So details don't matter, and I can enjoy two separate EU books that completely contradict each other and include both in my personal canon. And of course the prequels were just a shoddy telling of the story, they aren't the story itself.

So to sum it up, I just view Star Wars as a telling of a story, not the literal facts about what happened in the Star Wars universe. And of course that is just to serve my own imagination...not because I've gone wacko and think this is all real :)

And allows a guy to ignore stupid detailed explanations of why the wrong arm ended up on the floor in the cantina scene or the fact that half the galaxy is related to each other and the same five people are involved in every major conflict and event over a period of fifty years.

I kind of think that way too. My personal canon includes the basic story-line, so it is not specific enough that Adywan's edit and the SE contradict each other.

What I consider to be my "canon" for ANH is that a farmer boy on a desert planet acquires two robots who are carrying technical readouts for a battle station constructed by an evil galactic empire. The empire tracks down the robots and kills the boy's family (the boy is away with the droids at the time). A friend of the boy who was once a famous Jedi and is now in hiding decides to take the boy with him to deliver the droids to a rebel base when he discovers that the droids are carrying the plans. They hire a smuggler to fly them to the base, but when they arrive, the planet on which the base was located and has been destroyed by the battle station. Their ship is captured, but they manage to exit the ship in disguise. The Jedi goes to disable the tractor beam holding the ship in place, and the boy and the smuggler end up rescuing a key leader of the rebellion who is on the station. The Jedi disables the tractor beam, but is killed, and the rest of them escape on their ship. They travel to another rebel base and form a plan to disable the battle station. The battle station arrives to destroy the rebel base, but is destroyed. I don't consider anything more detailed than that outline to be definite canon.

Darth Lars said:

Many characters, general events and places from the EU are practically "canon" to me. The details of these events and places are not necessarily "canon", though.

That's pretty much the way I feel about it.

TV's Frink said:

Olie, I'm not sure if you're allowed to directly link to fanedit.info.  You might want to remove that link.

Whoops, I didn't realize that. It's fixed now.

THGhost said:

Came here for the Despecialised versions of the original trilogy and then I saw this. Sooooo, where can we download this from? Or do we need an invite for this too? If so, could I get one please.

Go to fanedit.info and click the download button next to the edit. In case you are not familiar with this kind of download, you will get the files in a packaged state, so you will need to download a program like JDownloader to extract the files, etc. Once you have JDownloader (if you don't already) then open the files in JDownloader and download them. Then extract them and open them from the folder to which you extracted them and view them from there. I'm not terribly familiar with JDownloader (I've only used it to download the two Ridiculous edits and Adywans ANH:R), so hopefully I got all that right, but if I didn't, someone will correct me I'm sure.

darklordoftech said:

I don't care for "canon". At all. As for why I don't care about canon, why would I care about canon?

I guess canon sometimes takes away from the enjoyment of Star Wars. Especially since not all canon is worth reading/seeing and sometimes it makes you want to forget about the whole thing (ex. the Star Wars Holiday Special, which is somehow considered canon).

There are so many inconsistencies between the prequels and the OT and the EU and the movies that you can't really accept official canon as "true" Star Wars canon. Hence my interpretation that basically everything Star Wars (maybe except for most of the OT) isn't exactly what happened, and the details have been mixed up, since everything happened so long, long ago in a galaxy far away :P.

I would prefer they made good movies than follow the EU, but if they can make a good movie while maintaining consistency with the EU, then that's even better! But the chances of that are slim, so I just hope the sequels are better than the prequels now that George Lucas is only some kind of correspondent.

Some EU novels out there are pretty good though, so even if they mess with other Star Wars, they make a good read on their own. Among my favourites are The Old Republic series and the Thrawn Trilogy.

I don't think I saw that. Do remember how far back you posted it?

deepanddark20 said:

Exactly. Then while Palpatine is in the middle of saying "no" repeatedly, show Windu lift his lightsaber in the air out of frustration, like he's going to kill him just to shut him up.

Come to think of it, I think Anakin might scream "No" somewhere around there too. The whole thing can turn into a big "no" fest

List of "No's" that could be used:

Obi-Wan's no from TPM

Qui-Gon's no from when Anakin slaughters the sand people

Darth Vader's infamous no (to signify Anakin's fall to the dark side)

and of course a repetitious no from Palpatine.

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

darklordoftech said:

"Star Wars" should be equivilant to "The Avengers", not to "Marvel universe".

That ship sailed a long time ago when Lucas decided to slap the "Star Wars: Episode V" tag on TESB.

 

You mean when he slapped the "Empire Strikes Back" tag onto "Star Wars: Episode II."

The Jedi may have been misportrayed by the media, leading the public to believe that they didn't really possess powers as great as they did. So most people wouldn't have thought that much of the Jedi.

LOL, like Anakin's "Very, very, very, very, very dangerous" line in tRM.

If you want a good list of Yoda dialogue, there is a lot at http://www.yodajeff.com/multimedia/sounds/ mostly from tESB and RotJ.

Since Yoda is so old, I think the effects of his age should begin to appear in tRSB and RotR (Ep. 6). What I have in mind is that there should frequently be long, awkward pauses, followed by "I am wondering, why are you here?" or just the last bit of that sentence. He could also stop talking mid-sentence, Luke could prompt him or be confused, and then he could start talking to himself or something like Gollum/Smeagol.

Some example monologue for Yoda talking to himself could be...

YODA1: He is too old, yes, too old to begin the training.

YODA2: 800 years have I trained Jedi, too old I am not!

YODA1: A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. My own council will I keep on who is to be trained!

YODA2: A serious mind have I! Hmm-hmm! (laughing)

YODA1: I cannot teach him, he has no patience.

YODA2: 800 years have I--

YODA1: Much anger in him, like his father.

YODA2: Hear you nothing I say?

He could have several debates with himself about whether or not to train himself, and it could go on and on...and more monologue:

YODA2: End your training now, choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did, become an agent of evil. Start down the dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did to Obi-Wan's apprentice.

YODA1: Much anger in him.

YODA2: Mudhole, slimy this is!

YODA1: My home this is!

It might be best to give Yoda a serious and a silly personality in tRSB and RotR to make it more clear to the audience that he is talking to himself. All of the examples I gave use available dialogue, and I only scratched the surface of what you could do with him.

The song is "Carrie" by Cliff Richard. If you search it up you should be able to find another version somewhere else on Youtube or elsewhere that you can watch or listen to. This one has my vote.

Maybe the exhaust port leading straight to the main reactor could somehow be made to be one of his alterations.

TV's Frink said:

I've been working mostly linearly, but I have done a few out-of-order things (all posted previously)

Grievous: First Look

Steve Grievous Test

Ani Reads Padme's Mind

Ani and Padme: My Eyes

Right, I forgot about these.