adywan

Monroville said:

I would also suggest putting a time code on the bottom black bar area so when someone writes a critque they can post the time (minute: seconds) as to the movie element being written about.

Also, whoever is selected to do the task make sure to keep your finger on the pause button!  >:)

yeh, it will be timecoded and watermarked

His ANH Bluray is now going up in a.b.starwars. heres the nfo:

Release Date : July 2009
Source       : 1080p Sky Broadcasting/1080p German Premier Caps Hybrid
Frame Rate   : 23.976 fps
Video        : 1920x1080p @ 35,000kbps H.264
Audio        : English AC3 5.1EX
Audio        : English DTS 5.1
Audio        : Isolated Film Score DTS 5.1 @ 1509kbps
Audio        : Isolated Film Score Uncompressed PCM Stereo
Audio        : Audio Commentary -Untouched from Retail R1 DVD
Length       : 124m

Like Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, Lucas went back and made color adjustments to the Special Edition releases. With Empire he went  blue and A New Hope he went Red. With A New Hope, the bland black and white universe dominated by the Empire had suddenly become more colorful. Some of the scenes were overly hot adding a reddish hue and laserblasts were now a hot pink?!. WTF... I tried to clean up some of those issues. I didn't want to get tied up in some sort or obsessed "restoration" because I am only a little crazy. I tried to "fix" the pink/magenta laser blasts with either red or white depending on what seemed closer to the frame on the original theatrical versions. I didn't do a frame by frame through the entire movie however so I know I missed a few. I wanted to take away the obviousness of them so watching the scenes with a lot of laser blasts you shouldn't really notice anything except the action on the screen- no pink pops. Again, this is NOT an extensive restoration and against popular belief these blurays are NOT "color corrections" I never said they were. They are simple adjustments here and there. No one knows for sure what "correct" even means and should never claim so.

For this release I mainly dialed back on the overall red saturation trying to bring the color tone closer to what appeared natural to me like I did 3 years ago on the original release. I felt the majority of the feature looked pretty good and I did leave a lot of things as is because I liked the punch of color. Even though I had already visited the high def saga back in 2007 with several of these adjustments- this go around is my preferred versions because I went much deeper than before and never quit felt happy, not to mention Han does shoot Greedo first as I have always done. These things seem kind of trivial now since several have imitated this technique over the past couple years but up until now no one has actually threw the bits at it to fully enjoy it all on a real home theater system in a convenient "just hit play" format.

In the audio department I dug up an old laserdisc capture I had laying around and extracted the center channel dialog and pulled out all of Darth Vaders dialog and plopped it into this release. I also replaced the sound Obi-wan made when he first appeared to scare away the Sandpeople.  So basically, these blurays are still the new Special Editions with what should be minimal "transparent" tweaks. And like the rest of this project I am the first to provide a full uncompressed isolated music score that is now becoming a new standard in home brew releases as I see it is now popping up in other posters releases now after the fact.

I have been toying with the idea of seamless branching the prequels on bluray to offer selectable theatrical and extended cut editions using upscaled deleted scenes from the DVD's. But due to current events that may be put on hold indefinitely. Or, to gain popularity I will release the entire saga again and call it "Wookie Groomers Star Wars Saga Redux" and replace all the actors with Lego characters from the video games and add ice cream cones into the space battles with pixie sticks as the laser blasts... Maybe I can find a place for Batman in there too... Oh, I think I'll add a hat to Chewbacca too because Lucas was crazy to not give Chewbacca a hat.

i have to say that this is not the Wookiegroomer i once respected. The bitterness and digs are childish. Wookiegroomer why not just come straight out with it and say who you are taking a dig at. "Wookiegroomers Star Wars Saga Redux"? Redux -Revisited, not tio hard to work out what you are really talking about really now is it? Especially since the last dig at me you gave in your previous blu-ray nfo.

You say that you have never called any of your versions "colour corrected" well maybe you should go back and read what you wrote in my thread when i was first working on my 1080p versions. You stated "What's wrong with my colour corrected versions?" Well as i stated back then they weren't colour corrected at all. All you did was desaturate the movie slightly. Slight delusions of grandeur about the isolated score too WG. You talk as if you were the first to start the isolated score on home brew releases and that everyone is copying you. As you well know this is not the fact.

I love the way you say that you "dug up" an old laserdisc capture you had lying around so you could take the centre channel for vaders voice. Especially strange since you once mentioned that previously available 5.1 versions were just upmixes. I guess with all the bitterness you couldn't bear to say which persons laserdisc 5.1 capture you used for this.

You seem to want to win some sort of imaginary popularity contest and don't like it lately if you're not worshipped by everyone. Why has all this come about? You were once highly respected but that is fading fast with your recent outbursts.

Isn't competition between editors a good thing though? Why slate another editor for doing something in a similar vein, but at the same time being different? If you are doing these just to be popular and for the praise then you are doing it for the wrong reasons. They should always be for you. If you are happy with them then who cares what someone else says because you have achieved what you wanted to do. If you can't take criticism or any form of competition then maybe you should do what you have stated you will do when someone criticized your ROTJ in that it was out of synch and just drop the projects for good. It seems that they are stressing you out and that is not good.

It is a dark time for me  because you was someone that i highly respected and looked up to, but no longer.

There were no mint marks on the disc . I purchased mine Off ebay from someone in China whereas he purchased his from the States. There was a noticeable difference in picture quality between the two also. Please don't say this thing is rare now i've just sold it. :(

Ripplin said:

I just donated a bit. As I told Ady, I would've done so "contest" or no "contest", and I got a bit of a pay raise/rise, so why not now?

Any significance to the name 'penny', Adywan? If you can't say here, that's ok. Just curious.

It's the wife's name. We use her bank account for paypal because i don't have an account that can be used with paypal and i can't set one up because, even though i have been with my bank for over 20 years now, i don''t have the correct identification to set one up that i can have direct debits etc. i don't have a passport or a valid driving licence so none of the proof they require. It's a bloody joke

Thanks Ripplin :)

WXM, good to see you around here again. how have you been? fancy doing any work on ESB:R? lol. Sorry i haven't been in touch but i lost your email in the last PC crash.

I guess that mr ghostface doesn't want to take me up on my challenge then? i guess its too much of a simple task for him. lol

It will be a totally random selection (basically all the names put in a hat type of thing)

Well now all that bad stuff is out the way let's get back on topic

I'm still a way off getting everything i need so i can film all the xtra stuff so i've had a bit of an idea........

Anyone that donates/ has donated between 20th july to 30th august 2009 will get entered into a draw and the person randomly chosen will receive a workprint copy of ESB:R at the stage that it currently stands. But this person would have to agree to 2 things:

1. that they would not make this publicly available or pass it on to anyone else

2. They would have to watch the movie and then write down nots about anything they thing isn't working or any faults they see with the new fx work

It will be an NTSC DVD copy with a temp soundtrack so there would be no need to comment on the audio. This will help me to step back and see anything that i am missing with what i have done so far and what don't work.

So anyone that donates please include your screenname from here so i know who you are to contact you if are the one selected

yes his is better. I would have assumed that all the laserdisc pressings were the same, which is why i didn't bother to see if i could borrow his in the first place. We both purchased our copies off ebay. There is another difference too. On his he has a dolby digital video before the movie starts whereas mine goes from the fox opening directly to the movie. No dolby digital vid at all. very strange indeed

But the sound is so much better than my disc and now at least i won't have to work with all the filters in vegas to try and eliminate the DRC from the original recording.

Ok a bit of news here. I know someone who has a laserdisc player with a demodulator that lives a couple of miles away so i a gave him a ring this afternoon to see if i could try my TPM laserdisc on his setup so i could finally rule out a player problem. Went around, popped it in and indeed it has nothing to do with my setup as it is exactly the same on his. Now here is the strange part. He got a copy just after i got mine off ebay so we popped in his copy. It sounded totally different. We compared the covers and the discs mine has slightly different colour writing on the labels. Mine look a bit dull in comparison. Now i know its highly unlikely that mine isn't an official pressing but why is there such a huge difference in sound quality between mine and his?

He can't rip the audio from his machine because he only has a laptop so he has leant me his copy to re-rip the audio in exchange for a copy of the DVD when its redone. Fair enough swap :)

So what i will do is just post the new AC3 with instructions on how to replace it with the audio on the DVD. It's not going to be until at least next week through because i don't have the time at the moment to do it.

fishmanlee said:

I used it BEFORE, i joined in may and posted the video in april, also when i started i thought a fan edit was called a revisited.

This , as i explained to you, caused a lot of confusion with some people thinking that the clips were to do with my edit and just how bad they looked. And the proof is in the other thread that i asked you very politely to change the titles and why.

and i did

 

Well you sent me the clip of "Luke vs Vader Revisited" on 29th April a while AFTER you had subscribed to my videos on youtube and sent me the friends request and i replied on the 30th asking you to change the title, which you ignored. And please don't come out with the excuse that you didn't get it because the one thing with youtube is that you can see if a message you have sent has been read by the recipient (non read ones are in bold type) and yours was read the day after i sent it because i checked. You then joined here and started posting the same clips. Now on 30th may you posted " Luke vs Vader Revisited HD". It was pointed out to you that you were using the same title as my edits but you ignored that so then again asked you to change the title, but this time in the rescored thread and finally you did. And that is the most pathetic excuse that you thought fanedits were called Revisited. How come none of your other videos used it, only the ones you did the saber effects for ROTJ, a film i haven't got around to doing yet? Maybe to push your channels viewing figures up?

fishmanlee said:

adywan said:

Well suddenly you delete my comment and when i gain commented on youtube and asked why you had deleted my original comment you blatantly lied and said that you deleted it because

swearing? and conflict resolvment

I had not swore once in that comment and i will not be accused of doing something that i did not do. If you couldn't take the criticism about the clip then why bother uploading to a site that people can add comment. And don't you dare ever accuse me of doing something i have not done as a pathetic excuse why you deleted my comment.But you keep the comment i made directly after posting that one because i had ran out of space which shows that i was not aggressive or swearing in my comment:

Like i have said before i have no problem with anyone using the video work i did  for my Revisited edits but at least have the courtesy to give me credit for the work i did and not let people think that you may have done it.

I thought i would post that comment here before you delete that one too

I have filter objectionable words on and it blocked a word and i didnt want to read the word, now i kind of wish i had, it would have helped to avoid conflict?

You didn't want to read the word? What, would your head explode or your world collapse if you saw a swear word? yet you seem fine to come into a forum where swearing isn't filtered? What a crock of bull. That's because there was no swearing in my post and you can't back up the argument with the supposed word i used. But even if it did have a swear word then why delete it? Others can have the "swear filter" enabled if they object to swearing and you have it applied so you wouldn't have to see it.   Just admit that it was because you didn't like the negative comment i gave and called you out about yet again trying to pass off someone else's work as your own, but with just a few bad cuts. Your edits are just hacked up messes without any thought put into them so i would kindly like to ask you NOT to use any of my footage for your work. It's embarrassing what you are doing to them. Please respect my wishes and use either the GOUT, 2004 DVD's or your own work for your clips and edits.

You do realise that youtubes filter removes words like "hell" & "damn" amongst others don't you? Is that swearing? no

One lie and bad excuse after another to cover your back.

Goodbye.

satanika said:

adywan said:

The main problem is that i no longer have any of the original files i used to create the disc so it would mean rebuilding it from scratch which is probably going to be impossible :(

Um, just replace the old ac3 with the new or am I missing something? Why would it need rebuilding from scratch?

Well i'm testing out a way to replace the audio using vobblanker, dvddecrypter, muxman & pgcedit  so that i would only need to upload the new AC3 and it could replace the original audio, without changing the menus etc. Its a very long winded process and if it fails i would have to re-do the whole DVD. because i no longer have any of the files , including the DVD Architect  project file, i would have to rebuild the DVD from scratch, something i probably won't do if it came to it.

here's an AC3 sample. the first part is the raw capture the second is using the filters in vegas

http://rapidshare.com/files/260531424/tpm_filtered_test.ac3

It is a huge disappointment for me and i wish i had stuck with the DVD audio for this. I did some more tests at the weekend. First i captured a 10 minute section of TPM (beginning of the Obi/Qui-gon/Maul duel) as this had some of the worse compression. The results were exactly the same. Straight away i popped in the ESB SE laserdisc and captured the Hoth battle and there were no compression problems. So i decided to capture the whole of this side of the ESB laserdisc and the results were perfect.

Then i tested both sources again through my home cinema system. I watched a whole side of each movie. No problems whatsoever with ESB but TPM clearly has the compression

So these tests rule out player problems, capturing problems and playback problems as if there was a fault with any of the set-ups then ESB would suffer the same problems, which it didn't.

There is some good news however, i have been messing about with the TPM audio and applying a few filters in vegas and i have eliminated almost all of the DRC. It's still slightly noticeable in some places but probably only because i know where these spots are and may not be noticeable to anyone else.

Now the dilemma i have is do i bother doing a v2 of this project with this new audio track?

i'll post a short ac3 sample later so you can hear the difference between the two mixes and then you can see if its worth me redoing the whole DVD with this new mix. The main problem is that i no longer have any of the original files i used to create the disc so it would mean rebuilding it from scratch which is probably going to be impossible :(

fishmanlee, consider yourself taken off the credits list and blocked on my youtube account. I had been polite and tolerant of you when you were posting clips on youtube and the links in here when you used the title "revisited" for these clips. Yes you changed the title when i asked but moaned that the word revisited isn't solely associated with my edit, which i do know that. But you only started using the Revisited titles AFTER you joined here and began posting links to the clips in the Revisited thread and in another thread. This , as i explained to you, caused a lot of confusion with some people thinking that the clips were to do with my edit and just how bad they looked. And the proof is in the other thread that i asked you very politely to change the titles and why.

Now you have started posting clips stating that they are from YOUR fan edit called "Rise of the Rebellion" (which is another name you have taken from another edit), made some horrible cuts but failed to give me any credit for the video source you were using. Now to top it all you sent me a link to this video. I made a comment stating that again you had failed to give any credit to the original creators and that the cuts were horrible, which many people have told you about your bad cuts time and time again, offering to help you with your edits, but you either ignore them or state that you have the talents and to basically shut up because you know what you are doing.

Well suddenly you delete my comment and when i gain commented on youtube and asked why you had deleted my original comment you blatantly lied and said that you deleted it because

swearing? and conflict resolvment

I had not swore once in that comment and i will not be accused of doing something that i did not do. If you couldn't take the criticism about the clip then why bother uploading to a site that people can add comment. And don't you dare ever accuse me of doing something i have not done as a pathetic excuse why you deleted my comment.But you keep the comment i made directly after posting that one because i had ran out of space which shows that i was not aggressive or swearing in my comment:

Like i have said before i have no problem with anyone using the video work i did  for my Revisited edits but at least have the courtesy to give me credit for the work i did and not let people think that you may have done it.

I thought i would post that comment here before you delete that one too

I can be tolerant, to a point, but i'm afraid you crossed the line.

Sevb32 said:

Any word, yay or nay on the one new still per month proposal I begged for?

No

lol

dlbsyst said:

Adywan thanks for this fine dvd but...

I hate to say it because so far all of your releases have been superb but I am a very disappointed with the sound on this release. As someone who own's and has heard the AC3 audio on the Japanese LD I can safely say that the audio on this dvd doesn't even come close. I can hear massive amounts of dynamic compression going on in this mix especially in the loud parts. It sounds to me like the soft parts have been brought up and the loud parts have been brought down. Explosions sound much quiter than they should and the big light saber battle, which was so amazing on the LD falls totally flat here. I hope I don't offend you Adywan as I'm just giving my honest opinion. Is it possible something slipped in when you assembled/recoded the sound in Vegas?

 

-dlbsyst

I mentioned about this before. It has nothing to do with the encoding process in Vegas. This was present on the laserdisc. TPM was recorded at the same time as i did the SE OT and there was no problem with the recording of those. The compression is on the laserdisc itself. I have watched the laserdisc through my home cinema system and its very noticeable on that too. This is why i was originally going to use the DVD audio. If it had anything to do with my set-up or the way i captured the audio for TPM then the problem would be there with the 3 OT discs too, which it isn't (and TPM was recorded straight after ANH and before ESB on the same day with no settings changed as it was a bit-for-bit recording through the optical input)

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Vader424242 said:

Hi all,

A huge thanks to Adywan for all of his hard work!  These are my first foray into AVCHD, and my player is known to be rather finicky with the format.  I just finished watching ANH, and the picture is astounding!  I noticed a couple of things which I attribute to my player (Pioneer Elite 05FD), and not the disc (I really hope I do not have a bad download).  First, lip sync was lost multiple times (to the tune of 1-2 seconds), and then corrected itself after a scene or two (?!?).  The main one was repeatable: when R2 is sacked by the Jawas, the sound goes out of sync when the head Jawa jumps out with the EMP gun (or whatever it is) and fires.  The audio is about a second behind the picture (so the classic "thud" when R2 falls over is late).  By the next scene, all is right again.  Second, there were several random pauses (similar to a layer change on SD-DVD) or what looked like bad jump edits (not repeatable).  I would think if the download (or DVD burn) were corrupt, the disc would not play at all.  Thoughts?


Thanks again to Adywan!

I assure you the whole movie is in sync. I just double checked the section you mentioned and it is in sync. This could be down to a player issue. But the random pauses sounds more like a media/ burn issue to me. When burning any DL media make sure you burn on the lowest possible speed. I would recommend using IMGBurn to burn the disc as its probably the best burner and its free. Also i would recommend Verbatim as these seem to have the best player compatibility when compared to other cheaper media. but you need to be careful when buying DL verbatim. make sure that the discs are the ones manufactured in Singapore. If they are manufactured in India then they are a pile of shit frankly. But the sync issues seems to be that the player doesn't like the 24fps encode. you could try changing the framerate of the movie to see if that works. I posted a way of doing it that only takes a few minutes and you don't have to re-encode the movie. It starts here and if your still having problems then just keep reading on as there are a few more tips:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/THE-STAR-WARS-SAGA-1080P-AVCHD-DVD-9-for-PS3-Blu-Ray-players-Episode-1-available-now/post/343870/#post343870

To do all this you will need to mount the AVCHD iso image using daemontools or something similar and then the MT2S file can be located in the BDMV>STREAM folder. If your PC can't recognise the image after mounting then you will need to install the UDF 2.50 driver first.

This can be downloaded here:

http://files.digital-digest.com/downloads/articles/XBOX360.HD-DVDRom.UDF.Reader.v2.5.WindowsXP-BluePrint.rar

hope this helps

Mr Ghostface said:

 

Oh, I wasn't offering suggestions for ANH:R, I was just pointing out that it's not all that special and some of the praise Adywan gets for it seems to be borne of an ignorance of how much simpler this is to do than a lot of people realise. And didn't he say that the new CG stuff isn't even his, that another guy did it. I'm not saying this to pull him down; it's more that I feel other editors don't get the same praise when their editing skills are just as good, and some of them are definitely more seamless than Adywan's.

Simple to do? Do you even realise how much work actually went into this? The only way i could get any of the things done was to reuse elements from the rest of the OT saga. If its so simple to just take elements from the movies and add them into new footage then please lets see what you can do, without the use of any CG. please, create a new full motion FX shot, not just static ships, and create a whole new scene, having to trace the outlines of each elements, frame by frame, matching the motion to your new elements &  then tell me how easy it is As has been pointed out to you many shots and elements were re-used throughout the OT and anyone who knows the films would know that. Many FX elements were taken from previous movies. Very evident in the space battle in ROTJ. Cat and pasted ships, a reused X-wing explosion from the trench run in ANH during the core run, many Stardestroyers in ESb were reused from earlier on in the movie, and the list could go on and on. An this is with a multi million dollar FX house doing it. I am just one man working on a home PC in a 1 bedroom flat. How the hell was i supposed to do new elements for the shots i needed? And please don't say CG because that was something i wanted to avoid and only 1 shot in ANH:R was ever done by using CG ships (the TIE approach)

And you are so wrong about the stardestroyer from ESB being noticeable because it has a more blue tint than the ones used in ANH. I guess you've taken that assumption from the 2004 DVds. ESB has more of a blue tint than ANH and actually the stardestroyers in ESB originally had more of a brownish tint to them, whereas the ones originally in ANH were more pure white. The slight blue tint to the ships in the the new opening Death Star sequence was because the scene was taking place over a blue planet, but was changed to a grey planet later in production, but removing the very slight blue tint was kept. And again you are wrong about the planet below being "badly drawn" because it was actually a hi-res photo of earth taken by nasa and desaturated to take away the earth look.

I also never took any credit for the CG TIEs and made it perfectly clear that they were done by someone else and that i only did the background elements for that shot.

You also made the same comment about the added music over at fanedit.org ages ago and someone told you that there was a purist edition out that has none of the added music, but you still come in here and again go on about the same thing.The purist was made for people who discount the PT so no need to tie anything in with the PT while the other version was to be watched as part of a 6 film saga

This edit was only ever originally for me and would never have seen the light of day if i hadn't come in here. i had never done anything like this or had any knowledge of how to do Fx work and never did this to get any form of praise. I did what i was able to do with what i had to work with and i am proud of it.

I'd also like to ask you if you work in the film industry, a film school student/ graduate or have no connections whatsoever

OMG the R1 shots on that site are horrendous. having never seen the R1 version, being in PAL land, i was always wondering why there was such a fuss kicked up about the EE when it wasn't too noticeable on the Pal DVD. Now i can see why.

Kurgan said:

So, is someone going to post a split screen comparison of the official DVD to this one?

If someone who has the R1 NTSC TPM could capture some screenshots and send me i can get some comparison shots done so you can see the difference

Moth3r said:

adywan said:

... I'm actually starting to think that the halo effect has always been there. Its present in the trailers also.

Really? I read that the trailer (on the R1 DVD) is encoded with quite a low bitrate and isn't quite as detailed, but shows almost no EE.

taken from the trailer. resized to 200% with no filters or sharpening applied:

Moth3r said:

So PowerDVD says the audio is Dolby Digital 5.1 EX 448kbps. I thought the maximum AC3 datarate on a laserdisc was 384kbps? Or is PowerDVD giving the wrong information? (Too lazy to demux and check myself.)

Also, the official R1 NTSC DVD has horrendous halos due to edge enhancement (the R2 PAL disc had them as well, but not as bad). I've read that the HDTV source still had some halos, but was much better. Anyone with the R1 DVD want to do some screenshot comparisons?

Its correct when reporting 448kbps but i don't know why its reporting Dolby Digital EX as that flag was disabled when encoding the AC3 in vegas. It was impossible to just splice the audio from the 3 sides of the laserdisc because there was a second gap in the audio between sides 2 & 3. I had to demux the audio to 6 seperate wavs for each side, then sync it in vegas and patch up the missing audio using the DVD. i chose to use 448kbps because i didn't want to degrade the audio by encoding it back to 384kbps and also some older DVD players have problems playing 384kbps 5.1 audio

The halo effect is still present in the HDTV transfer. I'm actually starting to think that the halo effect has always been there. Its present in the trailers also. The HDTV transfer is a different one to the DVD, yet the sharpening halo effects remain. Very worrying.

Bingowings said:

Nanner Split said:

skyjedi2005 said:

The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television.  Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.

 

Well, pretty much all the ones that Russell T. Davies DIDN'T write were awesome. :P

I have to agree with you there Tooth And Claw, Turn Left and Midnight were great and the recent Torchwood thing was good too even if it was largely pinched off The Space Traders and The Quatermass Conclusion.

He does write nice little character moments but give him anything that requires Science Fiction ideas or an epic finale and he gets lost, most of those stories seem to based on playing early platform games, only Russell can take a joke from Galaxy Quest and take it seriously.

I've seen comments exactly the same as this over on the Doctor Who boards, constantly slating RTD's writing, saying anything he writes is crap and how great Tooth and claw, Midnight and Torchwood:children of earth was and that he should take note of how to write good episodes like that. Well he was the one that wrote them. No one ever seems to mention the crappy episodes that were written by someone else though like Fear Her, The lazarus experiment &The idiots lantern for example which were some of the worse episodes of the new era.

Lets not forget this is the guy who brought Doctor Who back to what it once was: one of the vary rare programs that the whole family enjoys, just like it was in the 60's & 70's. That is unheard of nowadays. Just look back at the original Doctor who episodes. many were complete crap and then Doctor who became a joke amongst all but the hardened fans. It became complete garbage and thankfully died.  I grew up with Doctor who and loved the Pertwee/ Baker era. New Who is as good now as it was at its height originally.

RTD is a good writer. Just take a look at Second Coming. That was a great drama and had a great ending. One of the best and completely different dramas that had been on TV in a very long time

Can you imagine if the BBC had gone down a different route and hired one of its usual in house writers to bring back DW? One of the writers of eastenders? Just how crap would that have been? And the acting is miles better than it has ever been in Doctor Who (not counting most of the Doctors of course)

Now that rant is over. lol

Another little titbit thats popped up form the on set photos is that Alex Kingston has now been confirmed to be back as River Song with Matt Smiths Doctor and that Karen Gillan's character, Amy Pond, is to have a scottish accent.

I've never had a problem with the different coloured IG-88 droid being there. It actually has been painted as you can see different shades and weathering on it. All droids don't look metallic. Just look at the beginning of the movie , we have a white protocol droid that isn't metallic. so i won't be doing anything here..... or will i? lol

has anyone noticed that in the final shot of that scene smack bang in the bottom middle of the frame is a recoloured set piece from the Tantive IV? And one of the droids from the jawas garage sale is in there too & in the first shot you can see 4-LOM with a different body