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Looks light-gray to me

Those aren't even the same commandos in the two pics! Where's blackguy and beardface?

Hm.. Yeah, good point. Unless we can also get Greivous to switch sides or something.

I guess this is why Ady has his plan of adding an entirely new character, a second pupil for Kenobi. Which sounds insane, but it's Ady.

It does, however, require LAME to encode mp3s. Really, you probably just want LAME.

1. Anakin's dead

2. Everyone acts like Anakin's dead

3. ANH opens with a new Sith lord named Vader

Problem?

Oh my goodness. This should probably be a must-listen to any prequel fan editor.

mrbenja0618 said:

Actually it would be best if all those discussions stayed here. It's all related, and multiple threads are unnecessary.

Given how long and un-navigable this thread is, I'm glad they're elsewhere.

He meant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4

I should probably check, but I thought some of the duel has no music, whereas the whole duel has music in the Black-and-White-Music-Only version that DJ and ABC did?

Also, there's an alternate Sail Barge Assault on the SE soundtrack release. Obviously, as it's the ROTJ soundtrack it won't sound as good as the others, and ABC's restored versions don't have this track, but it's something at least.

Anyone know which bits of music from the original trilogy weren't actually used in the final films? Here's what I can think of, though I don't know the track names:

• Binary Suns alternate
• Some Yoda training stuff
• Parts of the ESB duel
• The Luke's Lightsaber Construction scene (although obviously a lot of fan editors want to put this scene back in anyway)

Also, I'm correct in thinking that a lot of the stuff in the Forest Battle concert suite doesn't actually appear in the film, right?

Yeah, I'm definitely in favor of removing any Vulture Droids that look like they're acting like independent droids (ROTS, in particular). The Battle Droids pilot tanks, but not spaceships?

none said:

On the April 26, 2006 episode, John Hodgman says that Lobot is one of President Bush's historians chosen to chronicle the Iraq war.

I expect nothing less from John Hodgman.

Bingowings said:

If you just twiddled his voice setting he would still be the same droid with the same memories.

If you keep the voice but remove the memories he becomes a blank slate with the same voice.

Like I said, this depends on the idea that droids' personalities are tied to their memories.

If Leia had all her memories removed you'd care right?

So why not Threepio?

See above.

Heck, there are people who lose their memories without personality change!

That being said, we're both beating this to death. I'm in favor of bluescreening a person in an OT Threepio costume into the PT as a member of Amidala's staff, something like that.

Bingowings said:

So a memory wipe is the equivalent (in terms of audience response as defined by the OT) as death of personality or 'soul'.

This is where the idea falls apart. There's no reason that a droid's personality can't be part of their programming or in some other way be untied from memory.

OMEN!-_-! said:

I've been hearing rumours that Ian Holm may be replaced by Martin Freeman at the beginning of FOTR in a new FOTR 'ultimate edition' that'll be released when The Hobbit comes out, but I REALLY REALLY hope that's not the case. I'm pretty sure that Peter Jackson would never do that to Ian Holm.

I believe, at most, they would replace the single shot of Ian finding the ring, and none of the rest of the film. I don't think they should either, but it's better than what they could do. At the same time, they've brought Ian (and Elijah Wood as Frodo) in to film bits with FOTR-era Bilbo for the intro to The Hobbit.

Has the OT Accordion medley been posted yet? It's pretty wonderful.

Before anyone points out that this is great evidence of OT love in the public, keep in mind that it's an Armcannon show, and google indicates they do video game music. So, nerds love Star Wars...which we know from personal experiences, I'd expect. 

Bingowings said:

What are you if you have none of your prior memories (everything in your head from birth until now gone)?

Are you you or are you something new?

Right, but I'm a human. Obviously droids don't work that way.

We have already seen that droids identical to Threepio can have female voices and we have speaking devices where you can manually shift from a voice type in the real world.

Getting rid of Anthony Daniels in the PT provides a blank slate for an editor to build a more functional droid personality which could be lost in the mind wipe.

Right, it's useful for editors.

Which would be rather tragic for a droid the audience has come to care about.

We are meant to care about the droids more than their owners do, that much is obvious in the writing of the OT.

I guess so? One of the failures of the PT is that Artoo & Threepio are not the main characters the way they are in the OT. Completely replacing one of them with a different character (albeit in the same body) doesn't really help this.

The standard EADGBE exists because it is versatile and easy for beginners.

I don't think it's necessarily the greatest idea to base your tuning off the idea it will help you progress to other stringed instruments. The guitar is often used for chords, so its requirements are very different from the violin & Co. Guitars are fretted, so the precise hand placement is going to end up a little off. In general, it's just a very different instrument. There are fretted instruments with violin-style tuning, though: mandolin, for example.

Additionally, I'd be concerned about only having 5 strings for any long period of time. The tension in strings on the guitar do help hold the neck in its proper position. One less string is a little less force.

Bingowings said:

After a memory scrub wouldn't Threepio be a totally new personality anyway?

That's why I hate Artoo's laugh at the end of ROTS.

Threepio is more of a slave than cushy little Anakin ever was.

The good guys give him a lobotomy.

Clearly, in the world of Star Wars, a memory wipe doesn't give a droid a new personality. Given that droids are completely made up, I see no problem with this. It's not a lobotomy if its effects aren't like those of a lobotomy.

Given 3PO's coloring there, I did like the solution someone had of giving him a completely different voice and thus making him a different droid.

Doesn't the Hobbiton example demonstrate that a constant green was not accidentally cast over the entire film, but instead that whatever differences exist were intentional?

No, but it can play FLACs. So can WinAmp. I honestly advise you to not use Windows Media Player; there are much better media players available for free.

Alexrd said:

In my opinion, the aliens are what helps me to believe in the huge scope of the galaxy in Star Wars. It's one of the things I like in the PT over the OT. We see in the cantina (and later in Jabba's Palace) that there are many other species on this universe, and I find it very strange (from a narrative POV) that only humans formed the Rebel forces. Specially when the aliens are the ones being reprimanded. In RotJ we see a new species on the Alliance (Mon Calamari), but it's still lacking.

This is why I'm all in favor of more prunefaces in ROTJ. Also the alien pilots.

So, uh... myspleen?

Holy crap that was awful. I had forgotten.