dgraham414

Anchorhead said:

Well, as usual I’m apart from the board on this. I thought that was a fantastic episode. Much better than the two before. Ben and Leia walking along in the mining area at the start was perfect. That little girl is a perfect little kid Leia and Ewan really is the best he’s been yet, here or prequels (what little I know about them). Obi Wan just works much better as an older, weathered hermit. I’m assuming it’s because that’s who he was for me when I first met him. For me, all of that first half of the episode worked really well. As a friend of mine pointed out, this is a lone wolf and cub story now and the sparse production value suits this character-driven style really well. No complaints here.

As has been the case since 1980, I just don’t find Vader interesting. In 77 he was a second or third tier military member and suddenly in 1980 he was this omnipotent super human who everyone fears and answers to. He’s that here also but he’s been that way for so long, I just roll with it.

James Earl Jones sells it and he sounds every bit as deep and strong as the 77 version. It worked really well. Also, his choice not to over explain (Vader, in-universe) works perfectly for their scenes together. Adding to the depth is their sword fight being the slower and heavier non-spinning, non-behind the back silliness of the Prequels.

That fight looked and felt like a 1977 fight. That made me very happy. As soon as little Leia ran into Reva, I thought “well, here goes the credits/cliff hanger”. Damn. I wanted more.

Which brings me to my last thought for tonight. Just like that, Reva is a deeper more realistic character. I thought she was a cardboard cutout baddie in #1 and #2 and suddenly she’s well rounded, believable, and more interesting.

I’ll probably watch this again in a few minutes. Yes, I thought it was that strong.

+1

I agree with you on all points.

This episode legitimately had me and my wife stunned emotionally and broken to the point where we needed to watch an episode of the office to get our heads back together. It was so tragic!

I do miss the time when the content coming out was focused on a specific era…

Obi Wan is said to have “risen above” much of the emotions and trauma that scarred people during the Clone Wars by the time Mail finds him (which takes place maybe… 3-4 years before ANH?

I would imagine that it took him time to reach that point of understanding and wisdom.

Honestly once the rey nobody version is done I almost want to do an experiment where i show it to my friend who’s never seen star wars and get their take on the sequel trilogy as a whole

Honestly, taking an episode like this out of the context of the show, I thought it was amazing. Sure, we’re taking a break from the story at large, but books do that sometimes.

jedi_bendu said:

I wonder if Obi-wan will be in this show.

I heard that he makes a cameo in episode 4

Anakin Starkiller said:

Like why is TFA PG-13?

Don’t the standards for PG-13 now include any curse words? And TFA was the first of the films with actually low-level cursing.

Hey could I get a link to this edit?

Is this going to be more Radio Drama esque than a pure script read? Since we have one of those already http://audio-drama.com/doku.php/directory/audiodrama/duel_of_the_fates

There was a technical issue I saw that I think was a carryover from the false opening you did with Rey and the starfield. In that shot where we first see her, there is a black rectangle on the side that wasn’t in the original film that moves with her hand.

Could I get the link?

Chase Adams made the Nihlus shot, but the youtube link is no longer available

CaptainFaraday said:

Re-render the opening crawls so the text moves towards the viewer instead of away from them.

Even better!

Recreate the opening crawls to fade in sentence by sentence as monotone narration reads them out loud to the audience. Also, make each sentence a different color to highlight the fact that it is a new sentence.

Artan42 said:

vranir said:

I suppose if anyone knows where Vader’s TIE is located on the Death Star wreckage it’d be Kylo Ren, but it wasn’t seen or mentioned past A New Hope.

We also see Vader arrive on the Second Death Star in a shuttle, no indication that his custom TIE is there at all. Bringing it back for this seems highly coincidental, much more suited for the unedited sequel trilogy than the HAL version.

There’s nothing to suggest that Vader is the only person with that particular model. The Inquisitors all fly Advanced TIEs as well.

Inquisitors pilot prototype Tie Advances…

Honestly, i think this is one of the greatest additions to any TFA edit. Finally TLJ’s dice fixation will have a setup

Should i start declaring voter fraud? I mean the echo chamber I live in tells me that shuttle ACTUALLY won and that the votes for the Tie Advanced were… Russian bots?

I bought Google Stadia…

Alright, finished poster for the not movie.

Edit all lightsabers to be Braveheart-sized colored longswords with over obnoxious clank sounds whenever they touch anything.

From Here

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/lijd48/sfx_magazine_new_cover_for_trevorrows_unused_duel/

dgraham414 said:

I made a cover for a potential Duel of the Fates book

I might get it printed in the future. What do you think?

I updated my cover once I found the SFX art regarding DOTF and other unfinished Star Wars projects.

Which do you like better?

What is the thought on doing a quick V1.5 with what we do have while we wait for others?

Yeah, I thought about it, but it just complicates the design for the Author flap. Derek Connely is still attributed in the interior itself.

I also based the specific green color off your trailer and included a QR code in the book to your trsiler! (I hope thats okay)

I made a cover for a potential Duel of the Fates book

I might get it printed in the future. What do you think?

EddieDean said:

I think the dialogue works either way, and as Faraday says, it’s nice to hearken back to her origins, before she takes ownership of her new identity.

That said, I’d like to +1 for KEEPING the nice strong lightsaber ignition sound. It’s OK if it has to move to where we believe the ‘current’ one is (if we think there are now two), but that beefy PWOMP really helps sell the drama in the moment, I think.

I’m all for the new ignition sound, but there is indeed two ignitions sounds in the current build