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Subtle.

So I was watching some outtakes from the Star Wars saga. Is it a bad thing some of the outtakes for the Prequels express the Padme/Anakin love story better than the final cut does?

I’m getting the feeling the Blu-Ray’s sound mix is much like the '83 laserdisc for SW, and might not completely reflect either cam rip audio mix. I guess the major point of contention will be where these rips came from, and that I don’t know if TFA had separate stereo, mono, and surround mixes.

If it did have distinct mixes, then that’s probably why the cam rips sound different.

It looks a little dark in some areas, but the blues in the sky look great.

I remember a preproduction shot that had Ben’s cloak as more of a grey colour, and this seems to reflect that as well.

EDIT: Well this is awkward.

Likewise, I don’t believe there was a PG 13 rating yet, so a PG film was a very broad spectrum of film.

“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

Alternatively:
“Tell that to Kanjiklub.”

Interesting trivia, not sure if anyone knew this already: I’m sure you saw the creature that looks like Nien Nunb in The Force Awakens as an X-Wing pilot.

According to Fantasy Flight’s X-wing miniatures game, that was actually Nien Nunb.

Honestly the bigger surprise is the resistance pilot in the background.

He looks like Ello Asty, the alien that got shot down in the trench run. Same species, or did something happen?

EDIT: did some digging; definitely looks like the same species, but the skin colour’s different.

I don’t mind the Scene with Luke and Biggs. It feels odd in the pacing, but if they used the original version (With Red Leader talking about Luke’s father), it’d be a great part of setting up the legend of Anakin before the reveal in Empire.

ATMachine said:
So – although the idea was likely abandoned during the production of ESB, and then hastily resurrected for ROTJ

I would assume it was cut out earlier than that, considering the good luck kisses Leia gives Luke in The Death Star and before he Departs to his X-wing.

I haven’t seen enough of the Mayhew Script to confirm if it was in there since they started shooting or if it got added in later on during filming.

Sometimes you can find a legitimately good discussion in a comments section, but it’s so rare that you’re better off avoiding comments sections.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-oscar-isaac-on-star-wars-episode-viii-20160417-story.html

Confirmation that Episode VIII will at least feel somewhat different?

Looking around it’s definitely not official, but I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody started selling them.

I’ve seen dead variants of of toys from other lines for collectors to buy.

Is it just me or does it have that kind of “Oh no not again” face to it?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sun_Crusher

Behold the ultimate weapon in the universe. Survived a shot from a Death Star (Albeit a prototype), designed to cause super Novas, and could only be destroyed by being thrown into a black hole (Though I have my doubts that it was actually destroyed).

EDIT: Yes, that’d be a good way to describe it.

Sun Crusher would win in a fight easily; it’d just shrug off the hyperspace laser of Starkiller Base and then proceed to supernova the fuel supply.

I’m not a fan of the weapon; it’s hard to keep the stakes meaningful when a starfighter sized, indestructible ship capable of causing supernovas enters the scene.

Darth Lars said:

I didn’t like the times when JJA played tricks on the audience:

• Nose of Star Destroyer that has the silhouette of an X-wing

I don’t think that was supposed to be a trick; it went by too quickly for it to work, at least for me. However I’m probably never going to unsee that now, so there’s that.

As for my own complaints, the easiest ones that come to mind are some choices in editing. I’ll use the fight at Maz’s Cantina as my example. The shot between when the group gets taken into custody has a fairly sudden cut to the Stormtroopers preparing to fight the oncoming X-wings. When I watch it I can’t help but feel like there was supposed to be a scene between those two shots. Later on in the fight, when Ren meets Rey, it cuts to a stormtrooper making a remark about needing air support, and then the next cut goes back to the two of them, with a Storm Trooper coming in asking for said air support. You probably could have put the “we need air support” at the end of the scene with the X-wings, and then not interrupt the Rey/Kylo Ren scene.

I want Hux to actually do something. Perhaps while Snoke is training Kylo Ren, he cannot be reached, forcing Hux to take matters into his own hands and consolidate power under him, while Phasma (assuming she survived TFA) becomes his enforcer/bodyguard, a la the Tarkin/Darth Vader relation in ANH.

I feel like the governor roles in the movies were underutilized after ANH, ending up more as obstacles to Vader than actual villains with their own agenda. I’d like to see them becoming a meaningful threat again.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

I think he meant he was once a Jedi Knight, but now he’s a hermit on a godforsaken desert planet.

I was just joking.

Don’t forget when talking to Luke, he mentions he was once a Jedi Knight.

Logic clearly dictates he became a master and is thereby no longer a knight, allowing for his statement to be technically correct 😉

That would make some sense. I still kind of want to see it used more often. That might be the X-wing miniatures player in me talking though; I like seeing things from the movies make to the game, even if giving an X-wing access to turret weapons is probably overpowered.

I realized something. Near the beginning of The Force Awakens, We see Poe use a turret like gun on the underside of his X-wing.

We don’t see turret like weapons used by any of the other T-70 X-wings, do we? Just the one time.

I’m still trying to figure out how the Falcon’s Targeting computer works, beyond giving a gunner a rough idea of the space around them.

The X-wing one makes sense; if the ship is in the middle and the cross-hair becomes yellow, shoot. The Falcon’s means you still have to eyeball the shot. Unless real world guidance systems have a similar display, I really don’t see how the falcon’s helps shooting.

Dek Rollins said:

What?!?! I have no idea what you mean by all that. If Vader wasn’t “the elder Skywalker”, then how could he be Luke’s dad? If Ben didn’t know Vader was Luke’s dad, who was this other lightsaber wielding good friend that he assumed was his dad, and why didn’t he know who his dad was in the first place? Whoever thought of this convoluted idea is thinking too hard.

The idea is that Skywalker’s lover (Luke’s mother) had an affair with Vader that Ben never knew about, leaving him to assume that clearly this child is a Skywalker, when Luke was actually a Vader.

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At the very end of the shot there’s two of extra blaster shot effects that don’t appear to be on the Silver Screen Edition.