I don’t really feel like OWK looks cheap, it’s just shot and framed differently and most of the time I don’t mind it.
Really the cheapest looking thing that I’ve seen in the Disney era is the uniform worn by the rebel guard in the prison episode of the Mandalorian. That was top to bottom hideous and exacerbated by how it looked like it didn’t even fit the actor.
Interesting that DV lets the robot walk away with OWK.
My personal take on this is that there is still good in him, just like Luke sensed.
He starts his revenge and at some point in this process his own PTSD and feelings for his former comrade come into play.
And I love the irony that he’s trying to kill OWK and OWK is there protecting his daughter.
I am enjoying it, the one continuity issue that I have is that OWK doesn’t know that Anakin is still alive?
In Revenge of the Sith he literally watches a security video where Anakin is with Palpatine and Palpy refers to him as Vader, so if even once in the last ten years OWK has heard of the Emperor’s enforcer “Vader” he would have to know that Anakin is still alive. One could argue that he lives in a cave on Tatooine, doesn’t get out much, he’s clearly a cord cutter so he isn’t watching the Intergalactic News Network, but he knows who the Inquisitors are…it just seems a BIG stretch that Anakin Vader being alive is news to him.
In the Art of The Force Awakens book they have some concept art for a force ghost Anakin that doesn’t maintain a static visage. I rather like that idea, like he’s still atoning for the things he did somehow.
Having said that, the only Vader cameo I ever wanted for the ST was a scene where he comes back as a force ghost and tells his grandson, “not in my name you brat.”
Maybe there’s a reason that the plans are on a data file that shows an earlier configuration of the station, perhaps the logic was that the file would be accessed less and no one would notice anything. Or open the file and look at it and say, oh, old data, pay it no mind and look for a newer version of plans.
The location of the dish is not something that bothers me in the least.
Some people see a flub that they can’t watch around, I just look at and think there’s a reason in this case. NBD.
My version opens with some repurposed YT film that represents the Bothans stealing the plans but being tracked.
Off to Luke on Dagonah, chats with Yoda who dies.
NO OBI WAN. The hut goes dark, Luke leaves.
Later on Endor Luke does not tell Leia that they are siblings because he doesn’t know this.
VADER is the one that reveals that Luke has a sister, the force reveals it to him during the duel.
Leia cements it that they are brother and sister, the Force has opened up to her, too.
We already know this if we’re watching things 1-2-3-Rogue 1–4-5-6
I know that a bullet may or may not have been dodged by having David Lynch not direct Return of the Jedi, however I think that Lost Highway is the Revenge of the Sith that we never got.
Mystery Man = Palps
Fred Madison/Pete Dayton = Anakin
Alice Wakefield = Padme Amidala
Mr. Eddy = Mace Windu
Phil = Obi Wan
Basically Obi Wan and Anakin fight together in the Clone Wars but the whole mentor/mentee thing is off of the table, maybe Anakin is past all that.
I had this epiphany last night and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch Lost Highway the same way again.
On the one hand I enjoyed having something to watch, but on the other it seemed jumbled.
I had just watched a video essay about how Star Wars was very linear in its storytelling, introducing new things firmly in context of what came before and staying focused on the story. Maybe that was just on my mind, but this series certainly did not feel that way.
Boba Fett felt confused, and I don’t have much more of an idea who he is now than six weeks ago. I’m still not really sure how saving Mos Espa makes the Sand People’s lot any better.
Fortunately, this mess doesn’t have “Episode _” at the start of it, so I’m much more forgiving than if it had.
I have really enjoyed all of Mando and BoBF and am looking forward to doing a chronological edit of the three seasons.
This was a fun episode of The Book of Whichever Established Characters Are About During This Era
I think they are doing great with these two series which to me are basically one thing.
I actually laughed out loud when they showed the 3D printer droids making things as I am a huge fan of world building and that scene, well…
My wife isn’t an obsessive SW fan, pretty much seen just the movies and then The Mandaloian (which she liked a lot) and BoBF (which she is tepid about and pretty much watches because I am watching it).
She hasn’t seen The Clone Wars cartoons and I have only skimmed them – don’t like the animation, it just doesn’t sell for me and I have a hard time watching around that – but I do know who Cad Bane is. I was looking forward to his introduction into the show. We watched the new episode and she looked at him and said, that is the fakest looking thing I have ever seen in Star Wars.
My concern with Cad Bane is that they pull a Walking Dead with him where they introduce a heavy into one part of the franchise and then kill him off in the next episode. Even though I am not a TCW fan it would be a real slap in the face to that part of the fanbase if they did that…and the way things are going I can see that happening.
Have you ever thought about doing just an extended edit of Revenge of the Sith and its deleted scenes without adding in the Clone Wars material? I think that would be a popular edit too, mainly for people who would want a consistent live-action look throughout the edit.
I prefer to try and avoid the chaos and confusion that gets caused by hosting multiple versions (aside from resolution) of the same film, especially since so many other editors have already tackled the material of just restoring deleted scenes back into Episode III alone. Having said that, it seems no one else has done pure “Extended” cuts like I have for Episodes I and II without any removals of other material, so maybe at some point. We’ll see.
adigitalman did edits of 1, 2 & 3 that are the core movies with the deleted scenes added back in and nothing deleted.
The Adventures of Rogue Trooper WLHM-13
He screams really loud when he dies at the end and from that point in time forward there is a moratorium on using the wilhelm scream ever again.
The joke stopped being funny about 328 movies ago.
I call it “Star Wars, you know, the 1st one.”
I love Arrival and Dune…however…my gripe with both of them is the music.
I think both need something more organic, personally I think the works of David Sylvian work better. I’d love to strip the music entirely from both movies and rescore them with Sylvian’s work (instrumentals from the Brilliant Trees era, Gone to Earth instrumental disc, Rain Tree Crow tracks and his collaborative albums with Holger Czukay). Sadly I have no clue how to accomplish this.
So some folks are upset becuase Slave 1 is now Firespray.
But but but but Jango was never a slave.
Shouldn’t it be called Donor 1?
I wanna see a fanedit now with Slave 1 with a vanity plate that reads DONOR1.
I did a Prometheus edit that used a lot of film in the opening from Terrance Malnick’s ‘‘Tree of Life.’’
My new opening is about 1/2 hour long and between things from ToL and bonus features on the BR only about 2 minutes of it are from the version of the movie that you saw as “Prometheus.”
This idea can work but you have to be careful in the execution.
The vespa gang and mos espa, there’s a comment made about no work. Mos Espa is a big Sao Paolo with favelas
The biker gang has nice rides because they’re exploiting what the can from the have nots.
As someone who was playing D&D in the late 1970’s…that bounty hunter wookie fight was a D*D battle represented in live (i.e. not animated) form.
And the biker gang totally are a nod to Biff Tannen’s gang in Back to the Future 2.
There’s probably a Wookiepedia page for this, but the implication I am taking from this is that the Tuskens in general or this tribe in specific is matriarchical.
A very good episode. I was almost giddy seeing the Hutts. The CGI has come along enough and it not being Jabba helps immensely. I still don’t like the lame minor characters who try to be funny, like at the mayor’s office, but more concerning Max Rebo’s trunk is too thin, isn’t it?
I am amazed that with the money and tech that Lucasfilm/Disney has at its disposal that so many of the casually seen aliens look like borderline rubber masks.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets had more convincing looking aliens!
Boss episode, which I say as someone who saw the first movie in '77 as an eleven year old and LOVED the Jawas and Sand People. The Mandalorian and BoBF have both delivered in spades on expanding two cultures I have wanted to see have more attention for years. The over officious Twilek major domo guy is great, too.
How about a community effort to distribute this, I remember last time drive limits were impacting people’s ability to access this.
You need well developed characters and stories before you can ship characters. The ST is a hot mess that is especially deficient in both.
Have we done anything to clarify why he can’t possess Kylo?
With the force Dyad going on then he could use Kylo as a conduit to possess Rey
and and and
this movie would be even more of a logistical hot mess than it already is.
Hal 9000 said:
If anything, it was rude of Rey not to return the favor. Maybe she could have tried if he hadn’t vanished. Good thing she didn’t vanish, though, I guess.I think it’s funny that Ben pretty much dies three times in the film.
I’d say it’s probably best if you don’t think about things too much with TRoS, but that’s not a luxury a faneditor has.
Due to multiple deaths & re-boots his Force OS is corrupted and he can’t install or run FORCEGHOST.EXE.
Fanedit issue solved.
NEXT!