doubleofive

"On The Rise"! One hundred thousand thumbs up.

Another winner, Frink.

Yes, originally it was going to be restoration of the original film. But while they were in there, they decided to add the Jabba scene and maybe redo a couple of the Battle of Yavin shots. Then it went on, and on. They started Star Wars in 1993/4, then decided they should do the other two in 96 I believe.

Eventually I'll write an article on the history of the SE, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

timdiggerm said:

The whales are definitely the best part of that cover.

I'm sure that the book is all about someone finding his discarded original gloves and using the DNA on them to clone the Imperial slaves who hand-stitched his gloves.

TheBoost said:

In nine other movies, and hundreds of episodes of TV, the merged VGer/Dekker entity never came back? What a waste!

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:
Wow, I have a blank post for maybe 45 seconds and this is what happens.

Sorry about my ADD.

Wow, I have a blank post for maybe 45 seconds and this is what happens.

Don't miss the commentaries under each comic. I like that they sometimes get into recommendations for actual D&D campaigns.

Jay assures me this is on purpose. Carry on!

I just got a post-notification from what I can only assume is Jay's personal email address. I'd think that needs fixed.

TV's Frink said:

I can't decide if I should avoid it so as not to steal ideas, or if I should read it so as to have ideas to steal.

I found one at a used DVD store in Knoxville TN once, but I couldn't even justify spending the $12.50 on it.

I've never noticed the gloves. You're absolutely right, that is some badass stitching on the ANH gloves. Maybe they didn't like the vertical to horizontal stitching idea. It is a bit disorienting.

Mike O said:

A few n00b technical questions. When I watch HDTV, isn't it still 60 fields through pulldown like it was in the CRT days, except at 1080i? I assume most TV shows are still shot at 24 FPS (the 25 FPS conversion fiascos which frequently plague Blus aside in Europe) and the converted into what bascially like 30 FPS? If I run 720p, is it running the fields combined and just showing each one twice? Why would 24p Blu-rays be of better quality then? Is the 30 fields vs. 24 FPS a difference my eye could perceive, ala the infamous "soap opera effect?" I know I'm not seeing smooth motion interpolations, as I'm sure I'd be able to tell, but is the difference perceptible to the human eye?

I'm sure Jamie Benning would let you use the Jabba scene from Star Wars Begins.

TrekMovie always had an overview. But yes, the phasers weren't redone because they never had clean plates to work from since they didn't have the original negatives, just the original final edit on film.

CBS' original plan was only to replace the space shots. Every other change took begging & justification on Dave Rossi & the Okuda's part.

We need to have him back, but 60 episodes ago we talked to Rossi on our TOS podcast about Remastered and how they did it: http://www.trek.fm/standard-orbit/6

Ryan McAvoy said:

Apart from the squished thumbnails on the back, it's a very well designed cover. It's just the image selections that are wack. Makes me think it's a joke.

It's true, their prequel plots are a lot better than the actual movies. I'm not sure why I stopped reading. I think the OT just wasn't cutting it for me.

And how about a link: http://www.darthsanddroids.net/

timdiggerm said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Anyone care to inform this non-Trekkie what's so bad about it (aside from the ship being the wrong model, as mentioned by timdiggerm)?

 The big picture of Spock is his costume from the TV show, not the film.

The only planet they visit in the film is Earth, not that Archipelago-mess behind the Enterprise.

Also that's just some bad looking CG.

Wow, some custom covers just have no idea, do they?

However, if we include custom covers, we'll be here all day and also be kind of mean spirited.

SilverWook said:

At long last! Steve's final head pop ought to have nice loud sound to go with it.

obikal said:

Will there be 4 separate threads created soon to follow the progress on the other movies?  Or will there be 1 giant "Revisited Project" thread to track whatever is currently going on in the Adywan productions universe?

I'm not saying the refit isn't great. It's my favorite too. But there's something about the classic curves of the original E that really make my warp core rumble.

Look forward to this sort of thing a lot in the future. This is the reason why Ady is going to be working on the rest of the movies all at once, so that when he hits a wall on how to do something or is waiting on another thing to dry he can poke in another one of the movies.

Did you get to touch it?! Did you caress her smooth lines? Am I giving too much away on my relationship with this ship?