SparkySywer

It also fits in well with Kylo Ren’s character. He turned to the dark side primarily because he believed he was owed a place in the galaxy because of his lineage (contrast with Rey also wanting a lineage to place herself in the galaxy, except she makes something of herself because she didn’t have one and had to). He could be an incredibly prized possession by the First Order because he’s a relative of Vader, Luke, Leia, and Han. They give him a place in the galaxy and he gives them one too.

The Sifo-Dyas idea is really cool.

That audio discrepency something I only noticed after throwing on both the Blu Ray and Harmy for kicks. I agree with Hal, the delayed audio makes the Stormtrooper’s speech sound very labored and as if he’s no longer in full control of his mind. It demonstrates the power of the Jedi in a show-not-tell kind of way.

I wanted to say something along those lines. Chekhov’s Gun isn’t unfulfilled, for one, because in my opinion, it’s never set up in the first place. The lightsaber’s purpose in the movie is as a relic of the Jedi, not as a weapon to be used to destroy the enemy.

Hal 9000 said:

In ROTS, have Vader awaken from the operating table to declare, by implied heavy delusion, “I am Padme.” Vader announces himself in ESB to Luke as his “mother,” and denies in ROTJ that the name ‘Anakin’ has ever referred to himself.

Forgot what thread I was in

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

Nicely done! I can’t say it’s a necessary change that should be implemented…although…hmmm…I do think more fan edits should do things like this…even if a scene plays out pretty much the same way, I feel like you’re watching it more intently thinking “wait, what’s different?”. It kind of makes one sit up and pay attention, ya know?

Exactly this. It’s not significant, but it’s an artistic touch that gives the fanedit its own identity. It would make you feel like you’re watching so and so’s fanedit of the Phantom Menace, not just weird Phantom Menace.

Luke projecting in TLJ had a lot more importance than Yoda projecting in the prequels would. It has consequences, for example Luke can’t be killed by Kylo Ren because he’s not really there. Yoda projecting would just be an unimportant detail since it doesn’t have any tangible effect, and would probably undermine Luke’s projection in TLJ.

Don’t let me get in the way of anything, but I think projection Yoda is a bad idea.

It feels kind of sloppy, but I wonder if that’s just because of the music.

She does give a pretty good performance. I wonder if it could be used if cropped.

I like the battle droid head. In a fan-made edit that isn’t trying to distance itself from the prequels, it’s a harmless easter egg that brings the prequels closer to the Original Trilogy. Sucks that the prequels couldn’t do that themselves, but it’s fine.

This parallel, though, I think is really unintentional. I have a hard time believing a Hollywood blockbuster is going to take a firm political stance in this decade. However, it’s not hard to read this, and the new EU makes it even easier. It would definitely be a good idea for sequel fanedits to lean even further into this.

One thing I noticed was that you used the Theatrical “A long time ago” text, instead of the newer version that appeared in the Special Editions and prequels. However, upon further inspection of a '97 PAL DVD and '97 Laser Disc, for some reason the new text was only added to Empire and ANH, and Return of the Jedi still has the theatrical text, so your reconstruction is still accurate.

The latest version is great, although it needs more of the Vader robotic voice. Although maybe just being in context would help it fit a lot better. The one at the end of the last page wasn’t all that bad, maybe that helped it.

On that note, restore George’s original vision for Yoda

My personal opinion is that you should use the HDTV preservations.

Even that “Disney” one doesn’t look half bad.

snooker said:

https://streamable.com/mxbmy

That’s really good, actually. I was worrying about how to make the fight shorter for RotS Abridged, but couldn’t really figure it out. This works surprisingly well.

LordZerome1080 said:

To make it seem like Anakin and Darth Vader are different people use the hologram between Vader and Palpatine from ESB but tweak it to have Vader told to kill Anakin.

That’s probably a good idea, but to have that in the movie and then not following it up would be really weird, and you couldn’t really follow up on that without undermining it.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Maybe we can deepfake Hayden over existing footage of Lloyd and redub the voice. He’d just be an older kid who hasn’t quite hit his growth spurt yet.

Kids teasing him for being small is why he turns to the dark side.

Ironic. The script for the Original Star Wars says Vader is seven feet tall.

On screen text, especially the text in GotG 1&2 is my bane. I’m trying to make consistent date and location texts (especially when it comes to font) and move the logos and credits to the beginning and end, but these two movies can be a pain in the neck about it.

thebluefrog said:

SparkySywer said:

I was thinking about putting text cards detailing which universe Endgame stuff takes place in. This is especially to help contradictory scenes that might be running close in time. Simultaneous contradictory scenes would be pretty easy to digest (such as the opening of GotG1 with the Morag scene from Endgame), but something like Loki escaping in Endgame will be just two scenes before he’s shown captured and sent to Asgard (from Avengers 1). What do you guys think? Also, how should the six different timelines be named, since I can’t seem to find any official names?

thebluefrog said:

Perhaps we can exchange notes?

PM me if you’re interested, but it also sounds like our fanedits are pretty different.

You could name each timeline after the movie events that Endgame revisted.
I.e.
2012 - Loki timeline
2013 - Asgard timeline
2014 - Guardians timeline
and so forth.

Not a bad idea

NeverarGreat said:

Update time! The move has gone well, the new floor is not yet installed but most other things are unpacked including my workstation. So I’m back at it, still trying to nail down this ending sequence right now:

https://vimeo.com/351538137

Password: fanedit

Zoo wee mama that’s pretty sexy. I like the concept, but also I just wanna say how much I love some of the details, too, like there being no iris before the credits, we just pan to the starfield.

I was thinking about putting text cards detailing which universe Endgame stuff takes place in. This is especially to help contradictory scenes that might be running close in time. Simultaneous contradictory scenes would be pretty easy to digest (such as the opening of GotG1 with the Morag scene from Endgame), but something like Loki escaping in Endgame will be just two scenes before he’s shown captured and sent to Asgard (from Avengers 1). What do you guys think? Also, how should the six different timelines be named, since I can’t seem to find any official names?

thebluefrog said:

Perhaps we can exchange notes?

PM me if you’re interested, but it also sounds like our fanedits are pretty different.

The core of the lightsabers are a little blue.

It looks beautiful!