regularjoe

I don’t expect anything aside from a re-re-re-re-re-release in the theaters and a Star Wars Insider that breathlessly has a small article about it buried in 50 pages of ads.
If I could have anything I want to commemorate it I would say a BR with the GOUT version included and a robust collection of cleaned up cut scenes and alternate takes, film not used, things like that.

HD versions of the videos are coming on YouTube.
Why can’t they just release a blu-ray?

https://consequence.net/2025/07/devo-documentary-netflix-release-date/

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

This channel called “Skywalker Stories” on YouTube is pretty cool.
Here’s the latest video:

https://youtu.be/WOS7i42ggU8?si=awXxKzvhkaBCSBoL

Their videos are done using AI. Obviously it’s not 100% flawless but in many cases it has me fooled. I don’t know how they’re going about making these exactly. My assumption is some custom ComfyUI workflow.

I used their Palpatine dissolves the Senate scene as an experiment to bridge Rogue 1 and A New Hope, it works fairly well however the PDTS scene has some weird rocking back and forth, there’s longish shots of Palpy talking and the AI (I am thinking it is the AI) is recycling the footage so it rocks it back and forth. One could argue it’s from the POV of a droid that is broadcasting or filming this as they hover around the Senate chambers. The end result was okayish however it creates a chronology problem in that in ANH about two days later in the Death Star conference room they say that they’ve just received word that the Senate was dissolved. Maybe politics over the scale of galaxies made it take some time to iron out his authoritarianism? Too many bugs for me to call it a solution to bridge the movies.
Something I did like about this transition is that the combo of the Death Star going live & seeing Palpy dissolve the Senate really gives a sense of urgency to the events of ANH.

kg1977 said:

Thanks for the feedback and kind words…here is the full frame version of treaswell as someone was asking if I could post it…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vZ9X6G0kE_xO_AcZvWaRrLid0xX7icls/view?usp=sharing

Wonderful!

Do you have a sharing ready full frame of the Tosche Station clip?

ildiem said:

Big fan of Divergence for Movie 5 personally!

My suggestions:

6 - Assessment/Determination/Commitment (any one of these)
Cassian and Syril both assess/determine the value of the Ghorman front for their own respective organizations’ goals, Wilmon’s determination is tested by Saw, Davo Sculdun assessed his collection which requires Luthen and Kleya to infiltrate his party, testing Lonnie’s determination

7 - Genocide
Perhaps the most important single word uttered in the arc (or alternatively if that’s too on-the-nose, something like Collapse/Catastrophe/Undoing/Massacre)

8 - Messenger
The core of this arc is about Luthen’s message making its way to Yavin 4, but on top of that Kleya sends out a desperate message which Cassian responds to; Most importantly, Cassian completes his journey by the end of this arc, on his way to becoming the Messenger the Force Healer foresaw him to be.

9 - Stardust 😉

I named mine:
A Tapestry in Bits of Blue and Gold
Viva Le Resistance
Radio Silence
The Sisters of Mercy

I agree with someone else’s comment about how Rogue 1 opens, I moved all the flashbacky stuff to the beginning of my Andor Season 1 Episode One
Cassian flashbacks
Kleya Flashbacks
Krennic collects Galen Erso
S1E1 of Andor

I also feel the episode with Kleya in the hospital works much better without the multiple flashbacks, just her going Mission Impossible in one uninterrupted sequence.

The last shot of S2 is Bix and Baby, my cut of Rogue 1 is now starting with Jyn’s flashback dream leading to her waking up in a prison cell.

kg1977 said:

regularjoe said:

Thank you for sharing your work. Really appreciate these cleaned up scenes and can’t wait for the others.

Thanks…just posted #2 “Luke with friends”…see above…1 more to go for this group of scenes

That’s fantastic work, I look forward to the clip on its own.

Thank you for sharing your work. Really appreciate these cleaned up scenes and can’t wait for the others.

Thank you very much, one scene down, two to go!

I would be eternally grateful for a link to that cleaned up scene if you are of the inclination to share it out.

JoyOfEditing said:

Okie Doke. Here’s a link to my opening of RotJ up to the point where Luke walks in through Jabba’s front door: //drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EleIyLvBBrk-D8zN9zy23NJhEeg6FMcs?usp=sharing

Interesting resequencing.
I chopped the entire Obi-Wan scene, there’s just too much reiteration and nothing really new said…except who the other Skywalker is.
I did some selective cutting when Luke and Leia are talking on Endor to stay in step with this.
Now, just like in TESB where Vader reveals his paternity to Luke, it’s Vader and the Force sleuthing out that Luke has a sister during their duel, he threatens to turn Luke’s sister and that puts him over the edge.
Leia now announces to the audience the brother/sister thing as the she and the Force open up to one another and she connects the dots.

.Mac. said:

regularjoe said:

.Mac. said:

Just had to share this short but spectacular clip from SkyForgeFilms:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nV4UeojnK8c

His work just keeps getting better and continues to impress! It would be a dream come true if there could be some collaboration between SkyForge and Ady for his expanded space battle in ROTJ:R.

I used that clip for my RotJ fanedits opening. In that context it represents the Bothan spies getting away with the Death Star II plans and the tracking device on one of the Corvettes is how Palpatine knows the location of the rebel fleet massing near Sullest.
From this scene I cut to Yoda and Luke on Dagobah.

I actually quite like that idea, regularjoe! Definitely in favor of somehow beginning the film with a bit more of a punch and excitement than it does originally. I imagine you also reworded the crawl to reflect the new opening and clue the audience in with what’s happening? And/or did you add your own comm chatter?

I used someone else’s custom crawl that indicates that Luke has returned to Dagobah.
As far as comm chatter, etc. I left it the way that it is. It doesn’t literally spell everything out however it leaves a breadcrumb trail to fill in some gaps.

.Mac. said:

Just had to share this short but spectacular clip from SkyForgeFilms:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nV4UeojnK8c

His work just keeps getting better and continues to impress! It would be a dream come true if there could be some collaboration between SkyForge and Ady for his expanded space battle in ROTJ:R.

I used that clip for my RotJ fanedits opening. In that context it represents the Bothan spies getting away with the Death Star II plans and the tracking device on one of the Corvettes is how Palpatine knows the location of the rebel fleet massing near Sullest.
From this scene I cut to Yoda and Luke on Dagobah.

Luke sure made it from the North Pole to an equatorial docking bay dragging a dying giant of an armored man pretty darn quick.

I think placing it after the crawl dilutes it, the crawl already tells you that Vader is obsessively looking for Luke, putting it after the crawl just seems redundant, especially as he is learning his identity here and the crawl implies that he knows it already.

I did a pre-crawl scene in my TFA edit, I think that it is something that can work very well if one doesn’t have inflexible ideas about how a Star Wars movie has to start.

I like this a lot. I would transition it from Vader to the Wiiliams fanfare and the Star Wars logo rolling up the screen.

It has a primary audience that I am not. I prefer the Valerian set pieces more than the Amblin inspired stuff.

I have an old fanedit that someone did of Jedi that had a restored sandstorm, am pretty sure AI wasn’t used and the result was great.

“What have I doonne?”

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

The possession part of the meeting the Jedi scene doesn’t work very well with integrating the two episodes, would be interested in seeing if/how someone pulls that off.

For me the biggest stumbling block of the ST was that I just couldn’t invest in Kylo Ren as a villain.
As the post above this says, Manny is just owning the role of Qimir and for me this is the best developed dark side user we’ve had since Darth Vader and Palpy. I was rather meh about the show at first and I am fully onboard with it.

I think the answer (and I am not trying to be mean here) is that they literally don’t care anymore about making sure that things align to everything cannon or otherwise. We’re just going to make stuff.

BTW I am not Disney bashing here or denigrating the quality of what’s come out, I’m down with pretty much all of it as long as the initials JJA aren’t associated with it, just clear to me that worrying about, oh, a yellow lightsaber was only used in one sentence in a book from 1987 that that is now out of print, do you think we should do that? Those days are gone.

Channel72 said:>
EDIT: Just realized there’s also a shot of some Ewoks smoking pipes. I guess this movie does have lots of smoking in it.

I have contemporary photos of the shopping mall in my hometown from when the movie came out, there’s ashtrays to the left and right at the top of the escalator going down in one of the anchor department stores.
Small town America, everyone smoked.
Things have changed a lot in that regard.

It’s a real niche preservation/nostalgia effort, I feel for you.
Not too long ago I tried to make a 1977 Star Wars edit that felt like watching it at my local theater, period specific ads, don’t forget the concession stand nag, the Duck Dodgers cartoon before the movie that Lucas couldn’t license (when I was a kid they still played cartoons before G rated movies where I lived) and trailers for other later summer 1977 movies. The worst part of it was that everything in the pre-show section looked aged and then the cartoon and the movie looked pristine, I don’t really want to distress/age them to achieve the goal and at the same time can’t upgrade the period pieces and I wound up abandoning the project.

Re the post immediately above, Pacing and Structure (don’t want to copy and paste a ton of text), Ep3 ends with Jedi Wookiester walking into his home essentially nekkid. Ep4 starts with him…walking home through the forest wearing his robes.
So…he went inside, put on some clothes so he could…walk back outside and then walk back inside of his home?

I like this episode a lot, had some great world building.

Something I did not like, however, and I will fault other brands for this sort of thing as well, is they bring in this cool character just to kill him off. Hey lookit! Wookie Jedi! Cool! Neat, huh? Ok he’s dead now.
I figure that there’s future flashback episodes where we see more of him but the way it’s playing so far is disappointing.
Oh and way too many wipes.

The last episode needed more wipes.