timdiggerm

I’ve seen comments like “Kleya & Vel spin-off when?” and “We need an Andor for this [photo of DS II]” and on the one hand I do think there’s fertile ground with the first one as far as characters go, and obviously with the second one as far as plot-device goes (and yes, Bothans, I know), but of course the actual answer is that they should make neither until they know what the big theme of any show would be. You can’t just retread “The personal sacrifices necessary to fight fascism” over and over, even if it is a good theme.

I was disappointed there wasn’t more Saw in the last two arcs, maybe something with his group doing something so bad as to explain why the Alliance pushes them away. On the other hand, I underestimated how much the Alliance pushing him away can mostly be in his head.

Having him saying “You have no idea where I am!” when they know and we know that he’s definitely on Jedha was perfect.

Bail’s remaining on Coruscant was necessary simply by way of the fact that we already knew both he and his daughter are active members of the Senate right up to its dissolution. When he was saying that his place was there, he just had to stay, I think part of his reasoning was that he can’t risk his family being scrutinized or taken into custody; he knows he has one of the two people most likely of being someday capable of taking out the Emperor and Vader.

I did not see Partagaz’s suicide coming, but Anton Lesser really sold it. Incredible performance. I had always thought he was fond of Lonni; I was so so so so glad they brought back Nemik’s manifesto. Of all the monologues in this show, it’s the one that sticks with me.
Partagaz was such a likeable guy, it was maybe a little too good to have him turn, though this was obviously the saddest way to do that. I think there’s still a lot to process there.

I could not be more pleased with how things turned out for Heert and Meero, and Perrin for that matter.

Vladius said:

timdiggerm said:

The press release page linked at the top is pretty interesting. Most of those projects have actually happened. Rogue Squadron never got out of development hell, the Taika Waititi thing seems dead too, Rangers got cancelled for understandable reasons, and then there’s A Droid Story (???). But the rest! It all happened!

They also snuck Lando in there, which didn’t happen

yet

It looks very cool, but years of Star Wars films have taught me not to get too excited by a trailer…

I don’t understand; how is it “missing” if they rewrote the episodes after they realized that episode had to be cut?

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

exitzero said:

Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

Also, do we have an updated Donation Drive total?

I may be able to help again if we are close to getting across the finish line.

Even with the $1000 challenge Adywan is not going to reach his end goal. The B-Wing pilots shoot looked fantastic. If you want to see that X-Wing pilot shoot completed, donate if you can afford it.

I’m just curious, but what would new footage of B-Wing and X-Wing pilots during the Battle of Endor even add to the story? What would their lines of dialogue even be?

Don’t forget that, in addition to the excision of the B-Wings, a lot was cut from the battle as originally planned. Not to self-promote, but see The Space Battle and The Rebel Attack for a taste of what was planned.

The press release page linked at the top is pretty interesting. Most of those projects have actually happened. Rogue Squadron never got out of development hell, the Taika Waititi thing seems dead too, Rangers got cancelled for understandable reasons, and then there’s A Droid Story (???). But the rest! It all happened!

Spoilers

I definitely didn’t expect Luthen to be cut out of the chain of command, but it makes sense. He wants to stay on Coruscant, doing his thing. I find it very hard to predict what’s left to do in this show, other than his death. It was nice that they wrote Bix out of Cassian’s life without killing her too.

So I guess what’s left is

• Luthen’s death. Maybe Kleya’s too, but not necessarily.
• Dedra’s death? Some other resolution? Probably death. I expect these last two events to be tied together
• Dedra learning what the kalkite is really for
• Cassian & K2-SO4 working together seems like a good idea, just for showing their friendship more
• More Melshi
• The Rebellion getting wind of the Death Star, or at least Bodhi’s defection
• Writing Vel out somehow to explain why she’s not part of the crew that join Cassian & Jyn
• Cassian’s personal journey as a single guy or however he views himself post-Bix
• A resolution to Wilmon & Dreena, and Wilmon’s relationship w/ Saw
• The breakdown of whatever relations there are between Saw and the Alliance

Just want to point out that Vel is Mon’s cousin, not her sister.

That guy with no name said:

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

Bingowings said:

I just sold my sixth kidney. Hopefully that will do it.

What does that mean?

It’s a joke (I hope).

Given that people have two kidneys each, need to keep one, and they don’t grow back…

I think Luthen will die in episodes 7-9. When Mon makes her post-massacre speech and goes into exile, she’s filling his shoes as the head of the Rebellion, but without the secret identity. This helps resolve the chain of command problems: It’s a lot easier to have a chain of command if everyone knows who is at the top. Also, I can’t imagine Luthen agreeing to her making the speech and going into exile.

I watched s2e1 today. Worth watching, like season 1. Very fun to watch them try to not exactly say TPM had problems while still saying it. It’s a real shame they went with all-CG for Jar Jar, but honestly that wasn’t the main problem; the problem was that no matter talented Ahmed Best is (and I believe he is), the jokes and direction were coming from George Lucas. Also very fun to see them try to tell you “We all hate Rick McCallum” without exactly saying it.

Afterward, I watched the pod race. What a great sequence, if a little long in its home video extended edition form. I still have no idea why Aurra Sing exists, but I guess that’s for a different thread somewhere.

Oh and it is just always great to hear from Doug Chiang. I remember fondly pouring over his work in the “Art Of” books, much like he loved Joe Johnston’s work in the OT art books. The difference of course being that I did not then become an artist myself and work on the Sequels. But anyway, enjoyed s2e1.

hharlan23 said:

It’s hard to see it.

Yes, that’s why no one noticed it until recently

A major source is the time they showed the original scene on Entertainment Tonight in 1997 during the run-up to the release of the Special Edition. That’s why the shows credits impinge on the scene.

So, when the Empire investigates what happened on Mina-Rau…

• Are they going to be able to recognize Brasso as being involved in the Ferrix funeral riot?

• Are they going to recognize B2EMO as the droid that projected the speech on Ferrix?

• Are they going to find all their guns?

• Are they going to find their radio?

• The appearance of the stolen TIE-Avenger prototype will surely draw attention. Does the Empire know it was Cassian that stole it?

Anchorhead said:

Omni said:

Maybe Cassian should’ve spent more time in the main story as opposed to lost in a side quest on Yavin for a couple episodes…

Which is exactly why I have the same problem with this season as I had with season one. WAY too much time spent doing nothing. We spent two episodes in S1 building stick & mud models of the ship hanger and two more episodes building parts of the Death Star (come on, we all new immediately that’s what they were building).

I think the extended time on Narkina really built the feeling of oppressive atmosphere, just as the buildup to the heist built the tension.

This season we’ve already spent two episodes watching knuckleheads stranded in the jungle argue and play rock-paper-scissors.

My take-away from all that was how badly they need a military structure, chain of command, etc. I assume Cassian took this lesson as well and will be working on reforming the various cells.

And don’t get me started on the episode wasted on watching the young couple Baroque dancing for 20 minutes.

I did think that went on a little long

WTF? The saving grace is that many of those scenes had Genevieve O’Reilly, who I find gorgeous. That said, I could have done without 10 minutes of her at a rave.

I thought maybe there was a little too much rave, but overall it was about showing Mon totally losing it, unable to do anything but hide in drink & dance from the reality of what’s going on

yoshif8tures said:

oojason said:

 

The same critics also said TLJ was the best Star Wars movie ever too…

I can not find a review online of The Last Jedi by Nicholas Quah. Do you have a source you can cite?

This thread has maybe gone off topic

walterlouis said:

SonnyGFunk said:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-film-film-festival-line-up-star-wars-twin-peaks#:~:text=We’re delighted to announce,in its original 1977 version build now gg

Exciting stuff!!!

Do we know if this BFI screening of the 1977 Star Wars will be the same version as the one on the ‘GOUT’ DVD, or are there any differences in the print they’re showing?

If it’s a Technicolor IB print, see the distant past for what that’s like: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Free-farewell-Screening-of-1977-Star-Wars-collectors-print-British-IB-Technicolor/id/11733/page/1

The gantry shot is great!

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

On your February 3rd Facebook post, you said you’d reveal “by the end of the week” what was done to fix the falling gantry, but you never did.

I’ve been following Ady’s work for over a decade now. What I’ve learned is this… “If Adywan says he’s planning to do something, then something will get in his way.”

Have a good read of all his Revisited threads here from the beginning. You will see a man beset by bad luck, faulty equipment, garden fence catastrophe, poor health and family tragedy. But he persists, his work on these edits has almost taken him twenty years.

So assuming he hasn’t been crushed by a falling chandelier, assaulted by a disgruntled chimpanzee, or blinded by an exploding fire extinguisher then updates will be along at some point, I’m sure.

I hope it won’t be long now until ANHR:HD. With how long the Revisited project has taken and all the life challenges Ady’s shared, I sometimes worry if he’ll ever be able to finish everything he envisioned.

I mean we already know that isn’t going to happen since he cancelled his PT:R plans

People can’t help but talk about their hopes for the edit, and then their own ideas, and then the whole thread gets temporarily hijacked into what is effectively someone else’s thread until people point this out. Also people post asking for updates, wondering what the latest is, etc.

Yeah, he just doesn’t post often. But he is still here.

I worry he won’t go far enough, but then I worry he’s not up to the task as we’ve only seen him work on already-very-good movies, but then I think if anyone can…well, anyway

I assume this is so they can make a new series called “Grogu” after they kill Mando off