*sucks up to Ganamae*
In all seriousness, what SM482 said.
I agree with Ithilgore. If you watch ROTS without knowing anything about the OT, or even that it exists, you get the same effect as I got when first playing Halo. You get to what feels like starting to wrap up the story and get to the big finalé, you think "this was a bit short", and then everything goes to HOLYSHIT ZOMBIE ALIENS EVERYWHERE SHIT SHIT SHIT RUN! Well, that's Halo, in ROTS it's more "Holy Xanatos Gambit Batman!"
I like that. C-3PO's shortened line sounds so much more pitiful than the original, that it's almost an improvement.
We can assume that the sensors are on, and as I said, he's talking almost to himself. You could put a radar display on the screen or something if you want to make that clear, which would probably be easier than changing the scene outside.
Alternatively, you can interpret the line "That looks pretty good" to refer to the crater, in which he maybe hopes to find somewhere to hide, and "Yeah, that'll do nicely" to refer to the cave when he sees it.
Well, if the sensors tell him where it is, that's reasonable. He'd be looking out the window, trying to see what he's been told is there, not pointing it out on the console. He's talking almost to himself, or maybe just to Chewbacca.
doubleofive said:If only I had these in HD, they might replace Ady's "Sun Behind Cloud City" I've had as my background since the trailer came out...
You too, eh? ;-)
You know, I never noticed how great that piece of music is until now.
I also think that, with a little trimming, that sort of prologue could work very well in a more radical prequel/reborn-style edit. In particular, I think only one past defeat of the Sith needs to be mentioned; the parallels with the Lord of the Rings films are pretty close here. Sauron, and Morgoth before him, were defeated-but-not-destroyed several times before the story opens, but the film only shows the most recent instance.
Angel, those mockups are beautiful.
I agree, I like that we almost never see Sidious.
I don't think he's that confusing in ESB, if you pay attention to the dialogue before and during the scene it's pretty clear that he's the Emperor.
I think Angel's point was that we see several holograms of Sidious in TPM, and never cut to him on Coruscant. We only see him in the flesh in the one scene where he's sending Maul to Tatooine.
More or less what I meant, yeah.
Real facts and science on my Star Trek? Never! Star Trek thinks it's much harder sci-fi than it is. Not that it's the worse for being completely implausible — look at Star Wars. We prefer SW to be inexplicable, vide the midichlorians backlash.
Indeed, Melbourne is something like the world's third-largest Greek city, including the cities in Greece.
LOL I'm in Australia. Melbourne hit 43-45 for a few days this last summer, and then had a 47° day a week later (coupled with the worst bushfire in our history). It wasn't fun.
Think yourself lucky, DV. In my country it almost actually got to 50° last summer. :p
Also, I like tea.
That is all.
Could be either. Given Leia's costume change, I'd go for sunset, but on the other hand the sky outside appears to lighten once Lando takes them inside — if you wanted to make it unambiguous, you could change all the windows to twilight vistas. Either way, all the action at Cloud City after their arrival takes place over a single day — same day if they arrive at sunrise, next day if they arrive at sunset.
I will always think that it took the Falcon on the order of months to reach Bespin, given it is unable to travel faster than light and Han's line "it's pretty far but I think we can make it", and also given that Luke must have spent at least that much time training with Yoda. The only issue is the lack of progression of Han and Leia's romance, but we can assume that that took place offscreen.
Adywan is building an all-new Wampa puppet for those shots.
In fairness, you can expect Obi-Wan is rather more out of practice than Qui-Gon or Dooku.
Maybe post-battle, during the celebrations?
I don't mind the colour of the "starburst" effect on the DVD menu, but the typeface jumps out at me. Everything else is in Trajan, same as the official DVDs, but the instances of Times New Roman in the logo here and in the main menu screen are offputting. That said, complaining about the menu really raises us to a new level of nitpicking — how many faneditors make animated menus that are mostly indistinguishable from the professional ones?
Well, one of them is. :p
The Purist edition was released as a barebones DVD5: it restored the editing in Ben's hut and the pacing of the original TIE Fighter reveal, and removed the music from the lightsabre duel. I don't remember if it also removed the music at the Imperial conference table and extended edit of the Death Star reveal.
Nope, cleared cache again, the image is still failsome.
Fine in Firefox on OS X too, but screwy in Safari. Can we get confirmation if IE renders it OK or not and whether it's a Safari problem (given the number who've reported it, I expect it's not)?