Sluggo

The EU has a superweapon problem?  Are you sure?

Asteroid-Man said:

I won't be accepting donations until the rough draft is online.

 Donations?  For what?

It has been a few years since I have read Alan Arnold's book.  It was a great testament to how great The Empire Strikes Back is.

Fang Zei said:

Do you guys think the '97 version should be included in the eventual blu-ray set? It would be nice to have a complete historical record of the theatrical releases of the movies. They'd have to make it at least three discs per film (one for the final version, one for the '97 and one for the unaltered), but since the transfers on each disc wouldn't take up all 50 gigs they could spread alot of extras over the extra space.

 It would be interesting to have if only for documenting where it all started to go wrong.  Honestly, I have Adywan's version if I want a souped-up version.  But I'll watch the OOT 9 times out of 10.

Not a good idea.

Better idea:  Janskeet shutting up.

I will.  I am hoping to have the whole set done in a week or two.

A generic set of Blu-ray covers I am working on.  It isn't going to be specific to Ady's or Wookieegroomers sets or any others, so feel free to use them where ever once they are done.

The front artwork is adopted from Simon Z's site.  The backs of the covers will be completely redone. 

I like the new ones better.  They seem more 1977 than your first ones which looked more 1997.

SOL, I guess. 

Don't take this the wrong way, but I hope LFL doesn't release a damn thing on DVD again.  Puts us that much closer to a proper Blu-ray release of the OOT.

If Lucas did a proper oot restoration for blu ray and dvd would he be forgiven for the special editions

Yes

and the prequels?

No

I think this hits a snag when one tried to define 'proper restoration'  Does cleaning up the film consitute it as a special edition?  What about getting rid of the garbage mattes?  I'd wager some of us would include this kind of digital work well within the acceptable range of 'proper'.

His new versions of the Anchorhead scenes look better than they ever have. 

doubleofive said:

Today is the last day to get me your real name for the ESB:R credits.

Just a reminder.  I only have 53 names!

 How does this compare with ANH:R?

MA,  I'll have mock-ups of the whole set ready to go this weekend.

Ady, The color correction looks much more natural.  Nice to see the pink gone.  Now I will be able to watch the movie without the rose-colored glasses.

Um, who wants to know?

Anchorhead said:

I've never seen the SEs,  so I don't know how complete a list it really is.

Suddenly, I am jealous.  Especially the 04 version.  Man, I regret ever having watched/purchased them.

Coov said:

I haven't posted in a while.  This looks pretty sweet!!!

Coov,

Good to see you alive.

That photo always bugged me.  I imagine this cut scene from Indy III where Indy and his dad are riding the motorcycle to Berlin to get the grail diary when they stop at a Glamour Shots to get a portrait taken.

Being vague is almost as much fun as that other thing.

Don't worry, mate.  We still luv ya. 

And I used to be JediSluggo, so you don't have to worry about lame net names.  It happens to the best of us.

I'll be seeding this for a while.

^^ I agree. I can't think of a good place to put such a scene but it would have been nice. If EsB were made today no doubt we'd see Luke training with his saber on Dagobah.

 Yup.  Yoda would be calling Luke a youngling and he would be training with a miniature training lightsaber. 

If ESB were made today, it wouldn't be as good.

Orinoco_Womble said:

I would also like to have seen the young Anikin use the force and cheat to win the pod race. This would have given us an inkling into a flaw in his character right from the start.  That flaw could grow as he got older and ultimately be exploited by Palpatine. I just didn't buy the utterly nicey nicey Anikin character being manipulated so easily and suddenly turning into the complete b*stard that he became in the later movies.

 Oh, yes.  I forgot about that.  I don't know if I would have needed to see Anakin cheat to win the race, but it would have been nice to see at least something of Anakin using the force in Episode 1.  He wins the podrace through skill and destroys the Trade Federation ship through dumb luck.  So much potential wasted.

The first we see of Anakin using the force is in Episode 2 when he is showing off while complaining about how Obi-wan would be grumpy.

skyjedi2005 said:

Whats next the arab guy with a sword swings and misses before Indy shoots him.   Indy's gun replaced with a walkie talkie, or better yet a cgi whip.

 Indy shoots first!  That's funny, sky!

I think I would actually focus on plot elements that actually seemed interesting.

Episode 1:  Jedi actually doing something about the slavery problem on Tatooine.  Making the Jedi mere patrol officers of the Republic doesn't give me any emotional investment when they are betrayed later in the series.  It would have been awesome to see Jedi acting more like heroes instead of mall cops.

Episode 2:  I think Episode 2 was the biggest waste as it had the most potential for an interesting story, and it was ignored.  The plot of Episode 1 was a set-up for the podrace and then the lightsaber fight at the end.  Episode 3 was Anakin's sociopathy on display and one mess of a movie.  But Episode 2 had potential.  The Sith, working behind the scenes, had orchestrated total control over two major governments in the galaxy and were pitting them against each other with the Jedi caught in the middle.  The Jedi were put into a position where they were doomed to be ground-up in the gears of war.  And that happened to the mysterious Sifo-Dyas?  Even Jango Fett had connections to the cloners of the Republic and the Seperatist droid factories?  That sounds suspicious to me, but the movie didn't do anything with that either.

Episode 3:  Anakin and Obi-wan should have been the best of friends and Anakin's seduction of the dark sides power should have been heartbreaking.  Instead, Anakin kills children and ultimately his wife who he was trying to save.  Maybe even a small hint of the birth of the rebellion might have been nice here as well.