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GUYS, we're going about this all wrong! I found this at Goodwill this weekend:



You just point the projector at one hole and a camcorder at the other and its TRANSFERRED! It's like magic!

;-)

I'm pretty sure if Ady wants a vote we can do it a little better than that. Please don't clog the thread with this.

I watched it again in every version I have this morning. My mind still thinks "A Star Destroyer flying overhead. Wait, its just the tower. Holy crap."

As much as it's worth, I was doing some research on what others think, and it appears the old TFN Technical Commentaries agree with Ady & I.

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/towers.html

My thought has always and will always be this:

The shot opens on Star Destroyers. They are big.

Then the screen is filled with something flying overhead. Is it an entire Star Destroyer? No, its just a huge tower of something bigger.

Another shot of Star Destroyers. They are big.

Then a shadow crosses over one of them. Something bigger.

Trying to replicate the beginning of ANH just focused on a small part of the ship that was in ANH doesn't make much sense to me. It's supposed to be something bigger. The reason the tower doesn't look different is because they had already built it for the Falcon being attached. They colored it blue in the original version so that you would know something is up with this tower.

Matticon said:

can someone post a screen shot comparison between the two control towers? 

 

Is the only difference colour? because if that is the case... this debate will never end. 

Matticon said:

Has anyone thought that we ALL could be right? It could be a case that the tower filmed for that shot IS the Executor's but it was edited in a way that it is meant visually on screen to be a SD tower.

Darth Stewie said:

Just my two cents. Fortunately for me, if I don't like it the way it ends up I can just change it to suit my own wants. I did that with ANH:R and I suggest anyone else do the same for themselves. It's not that hard to change a few little things if you really want to.  

WRONG... everything?

TV's Frink said:

This is example #133,343 of why I'm glad this isn't my project. :p

I always viewed it as "look at the giant ships, now an EVEN BIGGER BRIDGE comes overhead like the whole ship did in the original".

This bickering is pointless. The "faded" film shows a distinct color difference between the ships. The SE team made sure it was the same color difference. It's the Executor, sorry that that doesn't jive with people's preconceptions. We've all learned a lot studying these films, just add this to the list and move on.

I've always thought it was the Executor. The sharks fin is the perfect analogy.

Tobar said:

Are you 100% certain it's the Executor in that opening shot? I always interpreted it as look at how massive the bottom of this bridge section is, then cut to the entire star destroyer to show the scale of the rest of the ship which is then engulfed in the shadow of an even bigger ship that dwarfs the already massive star destroyer in size. The whole thing being a play on the opening of the original Star Wars.

protocoldroid3po said:

What I always thought on that scene is the reason why Vader indicates toward Veers that way is because with that mask and the suit in general, his expressions are muted in a way.  So, spinning around like that shows how urgent the matter is, and how serious Vader is.  That's just me, though.

Dang it, I saw the color of that tower last night, but didn't guess it.

E3 and this thread is on Page 2?!

So how about them apples? Microsoft made a huge mistake going first, I think.

As a non-pirate who doesn't deal in used games who is always online, I didn't have a problem with what they were planning with XBO, but Sony laid it down.

As for the price difference, remember that the Sony version of Kinect is sold separately at about $70 and Sony owns Blu-ray, so they probably give themselves a discount.

TV's Frink said:

Must be nice to be able to afford a professional NLE.

I've got Vegas now, I might play with this project soon.

It's the original scoring that they didn't use in the final cut.

DuracellEnergizer said:

timdiggerm said:

There are certainly parts of TOS that should not be held as canon by anyone. "United Earth Space Probe Agency", anyone?

Or that lame time travel episode with the secret agent and his alien cat.

It's probably the connection in the screen. I have a similar laptop, had to replace a broken screen. It's really easy and reletively cheap ($40?). I would follow the directions you can find to replace the screen, but just make sure everything is tight/not bent or broken.

Fang Zei said:

With Episode VII, I would think Disney would do the same thing and just open with the Lucasfilm logo.

Jaitea said:

The only thing that I notice now is Han surveys the droid over the cleaned up hill, shot of the droid with a hill in the foreground...after the droid shoots at Chewie Han enters the scene & takes cover behind hill....after shooting at the droid the face on shot of Han shows that he is taking cover at the same hill he surveyed at in the opening scene

J

FanFiltration said:

 

Hey Ricky, I mean Mickey is the same guy who blew up London in STITD!

nightstalkerpoet said:

Looking awesome :)

Just a heads up, the Google+ page tagline and introduction still refer to AD1 Productions.

I'm not a huge fan of Blink. Sure, it's a good story with a good concept (which Moffat ruins every other time he uses those characters), but I didn't see it as a Who story. Just a good Twilight Zone or something.