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I wouldn’t let other people tell you what to think about the movies. Trying to please everyone is how TROS wound up being what it is. YouTube is full of truly mindless takes from people who like to be angry all the time (and/or make money off of it).

Most of your ideas here are very radical and would require substantially altering the plot and character arcs of the trilogy. Plus, some of them just seem like trying to tie-in to other material in ways that make little sense: why would Pryde be Thrawn? And how? Has he painted his face? Does he still get exploded out of a window? Etc. I’d carefully consider exactly what each of your planned changes would gain/lose. If Luke arrives on Crait in person, how does he survive? Is he just invincible? If Luke’s invincible, how is he dead in the next movie? As is endlessly demonstrated in HAL’s Ascendant thread, fanediting often comes down to trying to do as much as you can with only small tweaks - even then, tiny edits can have undesirable implications and repercussions for the rest of the movie.

Why are you calling Neverar “Great Date”?

Issue 11 of Greg Pak’s run, from late last month? I thought they only had daggers in that. Or is this a different comic?

Ah, thanks for the explanation and the clips. I’ve been upscaling the series (just to 1080p; not 4K: diminishing returns and all) for my own personal consumption and have made it to mid-season 5 already, and I wish I’d known about de-rainbowing filters earlier on when that was more of an issue. Running three passes of Topaz must take forever - I’m on a 1070, and I’ve found running even a single pass of the Gaia models prohibitively time consuming, hence I’ve settled with a single 200% Dione Interlaced Robust pass. Despite the name I’ve found it works impressively well for progressive footage; even recent 1080p Blu-rays. To get from the 1440x960 Topaz gives me to 1440x1080, I use Red Giant Instant 4K in Premiere (but just because I already had it; I bet bilinear filtering or the built-in ‘detail-preserving upscale’ or whatever Resolve has would work just the same) and then add a little noise and sharpening.

I processed the same bit of S06E06 as you did for your second clip so I could decide whether to nick borrow your methodology or not. Here’s my attempt if you’re curious. (I unfortunately don’t have access to the PAL DVDs and am stuck wrangling the framerate fun of the NTSC ones, so this is in VFR. That does however luckily mean I get to avoid the extra processing time of Avisynth/Staxrip and QTGMC. I think the frame skip with Odo at the very beginning is a consequence of me separating this bit out as that sort of thing doesn’t occur when I process full episodes.) Yours has better sharpness with the large, bold details - things like the Defiant’s text - and generally looks cleaner, thus avoiding issues mine sometimes suffers from like ‘dirty’ looking eyeballs. I think mine better retains the fine details, however. Could this be a consequence of the PAL vs NTSC sources? Yours is also noticeably cropped at the sides. I know the very edges shouldn’t really be visible and often have irritating green or yellow lines etc., but the crop you’ve gone with cuts off quite a bit. Is that intentional, or is it inherent to the PAL DVDs?

Are you suggesting Anakin’s face texture in that video isn’t already a gloriously photorealistic piece of artistry, handcrafted by a true Photoshop artisan?

Sarcastic narcissism aside, that’s a great idea.

Do you have any examples of how your process looks on episodes from Seasons 5+? The video quality of the DVDs gets much better in the later seasons so the results tend to be better.

By the way, what’s your methodology for conforming to 23.976fps? I am working off of the NTSC DVDs rather than the PAL ones, but I’ve found I ultimately have the most success retaining the variable framerate to allow the 29.97 sections to remain at that while the unCGI’d film stuff is at 23.976. Kodi copes with it just fine, in my experience, so no need for CFR for my purposes. Joel Hruska at ExtremeTech spent a long while trying to get the series to a constant 23.976fps but his avisynth script is a) time-consuming and b) imperfect, producing rippling, hence I stuck with VFR.

I’d also be interested to know about any anti-rainbowing you did; and whether or not you’ve found any good way to combat the smearing often apparent on faces in the early and middle seasons.

Huh, I’d never really consciously registered that TCW Palpatine has the liver spots of AOTC Palpatine, but he totally does.

The solution therefore must be to deepfake TCW Palpatine into AOTC and ROTS.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Deepfake AotC Palpatine onto RotS Palpatine to fix his inconsistent age.

This, but the other way.

The link SandMTV posted links to a video with a 15 character ID (f2ynu4megZFmo8U), but every YouTube video has an 11 character ID. Conclusion: Sand is from a distant future where they ran out of YouTube IDs and had to add four more digits.

There’s no confirmed voice cast for LEGO Skywalker Saga, but after Battlefront 2 used the TCW cast, it’d strike me as odd if this game didn’t. The Holiday Special used Matt Lanter, Dee Bradley Baker and JAT for their TCW roles, at least. On the other hand, Droid Tales didn’t use the TCW cast, so there are pre-established LEGO VAs for the prequel/TCW/Rebels characters that LEGO could fall back to (but I for one would be disappointed if they went that route). I definitely wouldn’t expect any actual movie actors - except the eternal Anthony Daniels - because I seriously doubt they’re contractually obliged to do this one.

Sand, I don’t think Saw Gerrera is in Revenge of the Sith.

I thought this was a great episode. It had a nice pacing to it, building tension when necessary but never feeling drawn out, and also managing not to come across as rushed either, which is something I think TCW used to sometimes struggle with. I hope that’s maintained for the shorter episodes.

Crosshair got a raw deal, being the only one to respond to the chip - I hope they get it out and “redeem” him at some point. It was great to see Caleb, even if it is a bit of a retcon. I did notice that the Palpatine audio was taken directly from the movie, since you could tell when it had more or less reverb due to the movie cutting to and from close-ups and the wider senate chamber, but it worked well enough for the scene.

I suppose from that recommended TCW episode list that we’ll be seeing Gregor again? This show is in a really cool spot in the timeline for bridging TCW and Rebels, and the PT and the OT, and maybe even tying in elements from the ST, Fallen Order, The Mandalorian etc.

Flowframes, RIFE in particular, is probably the best bet.

Legends still exists, though. Even in the Disney era, the comics have been republished in large collections and the more famous novels are getting new editions with new covers and all. The old cartoons are being put up on Disney+. It’s all more accessible than ever. The only change is that there’s no new stories in the old continuity, but even that isn’t necessarily a permanent thing. Honestly, I prefer the route of explicitly time-capsuling it and starting afresh compared to what Lucas tended to do with TCW and similar, where it just overrode the existing material and left it up to people like Pablo Hidalgo, Leland Chee, various authors etc. to try to reconcile things. Which is exactly what Lucas’ sequels would’ve done, had they ever actually come to pass, of course - and the Internet would no doubt have been very unhappy about it…

I certainly wouldn’t mind if there was some more room for experimentation in the new canon, however. Some kind of ‘Infinities’ brand or similar for stories which don’t have to adhere to the tone and continuity of the rest of things. There’s a bit of that sort of a thing with the ‘myths’-flavour books that have been coming out recently, though, and obviously the High Republic is offering authors a lot more freedom compared to trying to ram books into the gaps in the main saga. Oddly, the LEGO side material of all things does get to exist in an only-vaguely-canon realm.

I hope this is some kind of misdirect, or he’s like, just taking some of Luke’s genes to get the Midichlorians for his strandcasts or whatever. The new canon mostly does a decent job of not plucking the sillier elements of Legends. Doesn’t Mando, which is set years after this comic, suggest that the cloning still hasn’t achieved Force sensitivity - that’s why Herzog wanted Grogu so badly, right?

Edit: irrelevant note - does anyone have any idea of how to more clearly communicate that Rey deflecting the lightning back at Sheev is also killing her? In the movie she just randomly collapses, and I think it’d land a lot better if it was made clear that she was sustaining injuries while fighting him. It’d also make her come across as braver to keep pushing despite being hurt, it’d make Sheev continuing to zap her seem mildly less foolish if he was actually doing some damage.

Yeah, Jonh’s Ben ghost goes a long way to smooth this over and make the ending less of a bummer imo.

While I agree in principle with everything EddieDean says, I still get a bad taste from having Leia explicitly foresee Ben’s death and to subsequently quit being a Jedi to prevent it from coming to pass… only for Rey to then take up the lightsaber, triumphantly “complete” Leia’s journey in her stead, and have it result in Ben’s death, as predicted. I feel like the plot thread about Rey taking up Leia’s journey was intended to be uplifting, rather than weirdly fatalistic.

The theatrical placement of Leia becoming one with the Force just after Ben’s death compounds this general sense of weirdness for me - it almost gives the impression that Leia needs Ben dead for her to become a proper Jedi, or something like that. It gives me “sigh of relief” vibes. It all compounds to make Leia and Luke adopting Rey without ever mourning on-screen for Ben, and him theatrically not appearing as a ghost, even more uncomfy. Some people read the scene of Leia teaching out to Ben as her intentionally distracting him so Rey can stab him, which I think is stupid and obviously not intended, but I can sort of see where they’re coming from when the rest of the movie seems to give off this sense of everyone just accepting Ben has to die.

I like the “Here?” idea because it conveys that the Knights don’t often make appearances amongst the First Order, giving a small nod to their physical absence from the first two movies.

That’s a fun idea. Definitely a job for EBSynth. Any specific extras in mind?

That “birth” line sounds great. How well does it mesh with Hamill’s voice over in the same scene, though?

Play the Force theme over that beat to make it clear she’s using the Force to hit the tricky shot.

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I think Cinematic Captures is working on restoring the fireside scene but the style is more battlefront than clone wars.

Wow, and what an excellent face texture he is using for Anakin 😉

SandMTV is a rogue AI, right?

This little bit from the Shadows of the Empire OST gave me Exegol vibes so I stuck it in. Amusing, but not anything worth doing seriously for an edit (plus it’s way too short).

Isn’t Rey’s dad a different type of clone to the body Palpatine is using in TROS? I didn’t actually read the novel, but the impression I’ve gotten is that Rey’s dad was part of some failed attempt to engineer a younger, healthier clone body, whereas the one he’s using in TROS was a more standard thing.

I think that’s pretty funny.

Maybe “my friends” would be slightly more fitting though since presumably he’s not talking to any one of them specifically, if you can find an ‘s’ sound that works there.