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I think any electronic (or at least obviously electronic) music could be out of place, or at least not the best choice. The music we heard in the bar scene in ANH was jazz music, and Jabba's a gangster. I think a similar style of jazz would be more appropriate than anything more recent — part of the problem with ROTJ is not so much that it's inherently inferior to the first two but more that it's aged less well. The use of contemporary pop style music from 1983 was replaced by contemporary pop style music from 1997 in the SE (same goes for the finalé music); by contrast, something *already* stylistically dated like the jazz music in ANH will age much better. It doesn't have to be actually old music, just done in an older style.

Handbrake. It's free and good and what I use.

What Jinkx said, only with less atrocious capitalisation.

Nice painting, I haven't seen that one before. Looks more like haze than actual cloud, but it does look rather odd.

It's pretty, but why can we see the suns so clearly THROUGH the thick-looking clouds?

Thanks, RL.

(Btw the Darth Vader quote was mostly just for the lulz.)

Darth Vader said:

If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.

For reference, Ming, "most people" aren't you. We get that you hate the Gungans; we get that you want them completely eliminated from TPM. You don't need to labour that point, we're not trying to make you like them. I don't particularly like them. But to say what amounts to "everyone who doesn't agree with me is an idiot/has incredibly bad taste/should be ignored" is not going to get you much in the way of support around here.

If you don't like something in the movie, make an edit which removes it. That's what we do here. Don't go around demanding other people do the same with their own edits which, at the end of the day, are their own.

Sure, my point is just that his plan wasn't so ludicrously complicated as some suppose. If the Separatists had managed to get the upper hand and defeat the clones (which were after all untested) and the Jedi, Sidious' goals would have been achieved just as certainly as with Order 66.

I didn't say the saga isn't about Anakin — of course it is — just that it doesn't matter if his story starts in the background and only kicks off in episode 2.

In addition, re Sidious being behind the Separatists: as it stands in the original version, he doesn't decide to double-cross them until the opening act of ROTS. For most of the Clone Wars, he's running both sides, not so as to turn the Republic into the Empire, but simply so that he would wind up ruling the galaxy no matter which side won. An edit can make of this what it will, but that's the way I see the original movies going. It's not that he planned every step exactly the way it ended up happening; he set it up so that once he became Chancellor and set up the Separatists, he could play one side against the other and come out on top whichever way it went.

The thing about the PT is that we know this is Anakin Skywalker's story arc.

Well, we don't actually, not if we're watching the films in chronological order. One of the goals of many PT fanedits (including, I believe, Adywan's Revisited series) is to make them viewable in chronological order without spoiling the plot twist in ESB. To argue that we already know all this because we wouldn't be sitting here editing the films otherwise is missing the point; if TPM is designed to be the first seen in the sequence, as GL claims and several fanedits are designed, it's OK if it stands alone and sets up the universe and we don't really hit the "main" plot (which does tie into the events of TPM; we must remember that it's in TPM that Palpatine gets elected Chancellor) until AOTC.

Re Ady's PT nods in ANH:R, they make sense on the above theory because it's ultimately going to be the fourth film in the sequence, so it has to tie in more; although it's still going to follow a time skip so it has to start afresh to some extent.

Why this fuss again about tying TPM into AOTC and ROTS? It works well enough with as many connections as it presently has (although I'll concede the connections themselves, like much of the movie, could do with some tweaking). None of us are complaining about Adywan not doing more to tie ANH into ESB and ROTJ, despite ANH being a lot more standalone than TPM.

*does so*

Agreed to an extent, but I feel the need to point out: there is a difference, when it comes to morals, between "shades of grey" and "murky and undefined".

*eats popcorn*

Oh for the love of...

His point was that the PAL version of ANH:R has better resolution. Obviously it doesn't apply to HD, because in HD PAL and NTSC don't exist, and there isn't a HD version of ANH:R anyway.

Agreed, one of the things I'm most looking forward to in ROTJ:R is the Executor crash; whether he adds Piett's Heel Face Turn (discussed earlier in this thread) or changes the plot surrounding the crash or keeps the plot intact and just alters the effect, it's going to be EPIC.

No pressure, Adywan.

*makes popcorn*

Put it this way.

If Samuel L. "Bad Mother Fucker" Jackson asked you for a purple lightsabre...

Wouldn't you want to give him one?

No, I don't see that working. It should be conscious, otherwise the tragedy is lost.

Very nicely done, SSWR. I'd like to see this take on Windu throughout the movies, even just as a script rather than video.

Also, I agree about the "absolutes" line. "I will do what I must" follows "If you're not with me, you're against me" much better.

Well, renaming at least two PT planets has come up in the past. If it can be done well without sacrificing plot or continuity, I'd like to see Naboo conflated with Alderaan; and some have suggested moving all the action on Geonosis to Tatooine.

I've probably said this before, and I'll probably say it again when this debate comes around again. There are two options I'd be really happy with, depending on how the Jedi are portrayed in a given edit:

If the Jedi are being portrayed as stuffy, narrow-minded dogmatists, then a single colour for all of them — presumably blue — makes sense. We could make exceptions for Qui-Gon and Dooku (if he's a renegade Jedi rather than an outright Sith) — they can have green to go with Luke's similar individualism in ROTJ — and possibly a few others (maybe the Council can have purple or gold or something). If we're going to colour-code people, there should be a reason for it.

If the Jedi are being portrayed as genuine good guys, then they should have a multitude of different colours. Each Jedi's sabre should be a slightly different hue, taking in any shade of blue and green or even a wider spectrum — the former is probably easier on the eyes lol. Needless to say, this would take a lot more work than option #1, but could look very cool. Similarly, the Sith that we see can have different shades of red — varying from pink to purple to orange — assuming that we see Siths other than Vader or Maul using their sabres.

I can't say anything that hasn't been said already but I'll add my voice anyway. Take care, Ady, and know that we're all thinking of you and your family in this sad time. Take all the time you need to focus just on the important things, and we'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

All I can think to say is *hugs*. We're thinking of you here.

*eats popcorn*