I’m interested in this. Did you do anything with the TV movies? Do you recommend them as part of your take on the series?
On Fanedit a month of two ago, they requested that you touch up your VFX before releasing. Were you able do any improvements for this release?
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Good news! I redownloaded that episode and the new copy seems perfect. No glitch.
I think the capture the wight ark could be used if it was simply changed to Jon wanting to give Dany proof, while not bothering with proving it to Cersei. As it stands now, the planning part makes no sense because you don’t know what they’re even planning until the end of the conversation. I think the change makes the ark worse and unclear to the viewer. Same with Brenjen. Sometimes you just need to accept that something can’t be fixed and leave it as is.
I watched both allmightycutie’s edit and this one back to back. This review is kind of in comparison to allmightycutie’s edit.
allmightycutie’s edit is rather rough in parts and the Bran voice over doesn’t work very well. Him being the Night King is rather silly but a kind of fun alternative. Overall, I’d call it a workprint for this edit.
Your version is far superior, with less material being removed which keeps it from being too jumpy. Your handling of the attack on King’s Landing, Jon & Dany leaving the throne, and the ending send off for the characters is handled nicely .
My major complaint is the capture the wight plot. The conversation where they plan it has been chopped to pieces so it’s unclear what they’re even discussing until Dany says “kill the Night King”, which she doesn’t even believe in yet. I would have left in the planning and let the plot play out. It’s a more reasonable plan than trying to assassinate the Night King with an added subtitle line. I’d put in the Uncle Benjen rescue too. He’s miraculously appeared before so I’d call it less out of place than Jon miraculously appearing at the wall on a horse with no explanation. Sometimes you can’t edit yourself out of a dumb scenario and just have to live with it.
I also noticed an obnoxious video error in episode 9 at ~13:58. It appeared on 3 different media players.
Here’s a screenshot:
https://ibb.co/ryYrQ5Q
Overall, I was pretty satisfied with this edit.
That makes me think of the penguins from Guillermo del Toro’s failed At the Mountains of Madness:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpV-AoiVUAA-Rp3.jpg
Yes most of the dark areas lose almost all their detail, but at the same time the side by side with the bluray shows how incredibly ugly the bluray is. For me personally, I’d take the dark over the ugly. Not so much as a restoration of the theatrical, but simply because I think it looks very nice.
Could you post some examples of scenes where you think it’s too much?
That previous one without the bit of green looked fantastic. I’d also love to see it like that, even if you only did it to the matrix scenes.
