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 It isn't particularly clear who this is adressed to, but I do have an opinion on this scene.

 In the special edition, it was nice to see a new scene, but Jabba didn't look like Jabba. At all. Han stepped on his tail, rather than over it, and Jabba made an unpleasent squeal. Pointless "humor" like the ASP droid hitting the probe or the Jawa falling off the Ronto.

 In the 2004 version, Jabba looks a little more like himself, but still looks off. Maybe it's his colors, maybe it's because he doesn't have a lazy eye, maybe it's that his eyes are yellow, maybe they made him too small, but it's unpleasent and unconvincing.

 Even if they could make it actually look like Jabba in Return of the Jedi, it isn't a necessary scene. Jabba talks about how Han owes him, like Greedo has, and then talks about placing a bounty on him, while Greedo was already there a few minutes before. Not to mention it seems a bit better with Jabba being mentioned in the fourth and fifth movies, then appearing in the sixth.

 If Jabba did look like he does in ROTJ, and Han can step OVER his tail, it could be a deleted scene, or something.

Perhaps the scale difference is due to the perspective. The angle is from below, and Luke is leaning back, so you could get different measurements that way.

 In the close-up of Luke, the outline looks a bit larger than him.

Obi-Wan said:

Also notice: In the novel this scene ends with Hobbie's damaged snowspeeder crashing head on into General Veers' walker.

The storyline from the novel does not appear in the actual movie in which the Empire's attack is shown more dominant. If I'm not mistaken the crash is happening when Veers is aiming at the generators through his periscope when his vision is suddenly distracted by the attacking snowspeeder and its kamikaze course.

  Well, Ady did say the EU is irrelevant for the purposes of this edit, and as for the novels go... Uncle Owen is Obi-Wan's brother.

 Not to mention it takes away from the menace of the walker if they can't shoot something right in front of them, and reusing shots would be redundant.

Savmagoett, what dimensions did you calculate for the Tydirium? Did you use the ILM version...

...Or the stumpy set version?

I've got another website here, with similar measurements to SWTC. It'd be closer if he didn't use the shot of the foot.

http://www.suave.net/~dave/atat.cgi?version=ref

 One thing I always found annoying is Ventress' appearence. Sometimes she's bald Britney, Chinese, He-She, She-He, or sometimes she'll look good. She's had about three different costumes, though the colors of each keep changing. The color of her triangle tattoos changes, and in both cartoons, her tattoos themselves keep changing. Are triangles that hard to keep consistent? Then you see her now and then with white eyes like the old cartoon.

 Though I like her voice and appearence (aside from how her nose gets fat between her eyes), she'd look better if she was a bit less stylized.

 Any chance of getting rid of unnecessary shots/lines in the Hoth sequence?

-That awkward Alliance Officer who gives instructions to two other soldiers. Though I don't remember that being on the DVD Special Edition...

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uQ1ROQm0k , 2:56)

-Guy with awkward voice that says "Two fighters against a Star Destroyur", he needs a new voice.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uQ1ROQm0k , 5:38)

-"Good. Our first catch of the day." The way he says it sounds really unenthusiastic. He should be dubbed over. Though I think that's been mentioned.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uQ1ROQm0k , 6:24)

This might be a bit unnecessary, but I never liked how Luke added in "Go, Dak!" after telling him to do "Attack pattern Delta"...

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uQ1ROQm0k , 8:06)

I hate that shot of "Janson" smiling... And it seems out of place.

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpS69eAXrU , 0:56)

-After showing the cable detached, someone says "cable detached"

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpS69eAXrU , 1:11)

-Wedge goes "hoo-ah"...

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpS69eAXrU , 1:28)

-Obvious jumpcut when the Snowtroopers' cannon-thing is destroyed.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpS69eAXrU , 7:23)

 Don't get me wrong, some of it is alright. I like Battlefront, Empire at War, The Thrawn Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire, and The Force Unleashed (sort of). Asajj Ventress is one of the few EU characters I actually like. But what I really hate is how they try to incorporate all that Marvel comics garbage and Ewok cartoons in. Ewoks have rainbow bridges, trolls, magic, HORSES, the hideous season "kings" that look like they belong in some public domain cartoon for 5-year-olds. Marvel comics have another other Death Star, ugly ships, stupid stories, JAXXON, and generic, unrecognizable appearences for everyone but Vader.

 Then there's half the other stuff. Palpatine has "eyes" and "hands"... Mara Jade wasn't as bad as the others, but why would he have a bunch of mini-apprentices? Vader has them, too. Warlords fighting over what's left of the Empire, two three-eyed mutants who claim to be Palpatine's children, The Death star II is also IG-88, every background character has an elaborate story, and contradictions everywhere. Ackbar dies, Mon Mothma dies, Chewbacca dies, there's some ugly freaks called Yuuzhan Vong who "terraform" things, the Sith still exist, Palpatine is reborn as a bunch of mannequin-clones, The Empire never goes away, there's plenty of angsty villians, and despite the main characters being 70-odd, they still go on their amazing adventures.

Something I found rather confusing in Star Wars is the whole cloning/growth acceleration/lifespan thing. The Kaminoans say they use growth-accelerated clones, which makes them age twice as fast. Then in BFII, there’s the “Journal of the 501st”… Presumably narrated by one clone. Let’s say he’s “20” (10) in Geonosis. Episode Three, 26. Episode Four, 64. Episode Five, 70. Considering that growth acceleration would make them 70 by Episode Five, I think that once they reach 10 (20), the acceleration is somehow stopped.

Now another thing to do with age. It seems in Star Wars people have average lifespans. ~75. Yet if they are as technologically advanced as they appear, lifespans would presumably be longer. Without further complications, the human body could last around 120 years. Now there’s somethingpeculiar in Shadows of the Empire. Xizor comments on the Emporer’s freaky appearence, and notes “he isn’t even that old.” In SOTE, the Emporer would be 85 or 86. Yet other characters pass away from “natural causes” at much younger ages.

Well, I think the Stormtrooper's skin should be painted over. It's supposed to be a full body glove, and you don't see any sort of physical features with the armor on.

Perhaps this is rather minor, but is it just me, or does Yoda look really weird in his hut in scenes from ESB and ROTJ? His chin looks more receded than before, his eyes are crossed (though I think his eyes are crossed for all of ROTJ), and his mouth looks really out of place. I noticed this in the scene where after Luke says "I'm not afraid", Yoda says "You will be. You will be..." it's particularly noticable.

 It's a nice mock-up, but should the damage just be a bunch of scratches? They're seems to be alot, and scorch marks might look better

 Also, I always found it really weird how the engines are glowing so brightly in a few shots. I always thought it looked really ugly.

 So... How are you going to get around the Wampa having three different appearences in the opening scene?

I think I have the best.

 Maybe the Dimorphism blooper is of note. Though I don't know how it could be fixed very easily...

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