The logic doesn't follow, but I suppose it's a bit of a nod towards the fact that he knows what's going on in this end of the fan community.
As much as a little less Jedi Council would make some sense in the prequels (Seriously, why does the whole Council show up to celebrate a peace treaty on Naboo?), I don't really think eliminating Yoda from the end of ROTS is doable.
ARSE is short for ANH:R:SE which stands for "A New Hope : Revisited : Special Edition" which refers to the HD redo of "A New Hope : Revisited" that Adywan'll be doing after he does ROTJ:R but before he tackles his prequel project.
It has associations in my head with the line that someone on here came up with about how Lucas's attempts at fixing the films are only half-assed, but here at OT.com, we go full-assed!
But yeah, it's a joke.
Now there are two of them!
To be honest, I'm no longer capable of knowing if this line is terrible. After seeing it popup in Frink's edit so much, it just makes me laugh.
Oh gosh.
Maybe?
That, Frink, is something I've been wondering for awhile.
So good to finally see Red Leader's line about meeting Luke's father. Not sure why that needed cutting, ever, and could totally see it being in ARSE.
Yes, too harsh. And people wonder why this place has a bad reputation.
I found the Lando ones to be a little too... bizarre. Space Manta Rays? Minharp of the Sharu? What.
But I do love them. They just seemed to go too far in the fantasy direction, even for Star Wars (Wizards In Space!)
If any group can go over a Star Wars film with a fine-toothed comb, it's this one.
Behold, there is already a really good thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/What-do-you-LIKE-about-the-EU/topic/10207/
what...what is happening with the lights?
MrInsaneA said:
One thing that should NOT be changed...
Shortening, or taking out Lightsaber fights (with the exclusion of any Yoda fight scenes. So unnecessary.) I see a lot of talk about how people here think the PT fights are "frivolous" and "over choreographed." I am STRONGLY against this line of thinking.
You see, the argument is that these fights have no resonance because we don't care about the characters/plot. However, if Ady can correct those issues, then all of a sudden we have our epic lightsaber battles AND a coherent plot. Maybe it's because I'm younger, and grew up loving the PT fights, but I would be crushed if they were to be shortened/deleted in any way.
Even the final ROTS duel? That thing is so needlessly long, with action & settings that border on the ridiculous/laughable
What does the use of an alternate take imply about transfers, scanning, cleanup, etc?
General Star Wars Discussion is most of the problem. The topic-specific forums (Theatrical vs SE, Preservations, FanEdits) are mostly fine other than some bickering.
Of course, I mostly just go to Theatrical vs SE to see the Comparions thread
This is why I much prefer savestarwars.com to be the public front.
Bingowings said:
I think that's meant to be Artoo on the comlink and they are debating what each beep means.
No, watch his line at 0:19 ... definitely meant to be Ani making those sounds.
Also, pretty sure those are temp-Artoo noises? They don't sound like Artoo himself.
Actually, that scene's not bad...except for Hayden's flat acting. But otherwise, pretty good. Much better than Artoo & the Jets.
No, it's been explained that everything was stored in the same trailers, so the bikes just came along with the rest of the sets.
Grievous = Maul is certainly something for faneditors & animators to consider completing.
adywan said:
so fan editors are going to love to play around with this.
Obviously, the entire paragraph here about ROTJ stuff is super-exciting, particularly because we've all got ridiculous expectations for ROTJ:R.
Thanks for doing the writeup on this stuff Ady; it's much appreciated!
twooffour said:
Sorry, nope. The same thing could be said about ANY choking scene ever put in a movie - the difference between that and erotic asphyxiation (the reason David Carradine died) is that the choking is inflicted as a means to kill.
Leia wanted to kill Jabba. The end.
Although I never quite got how... was Jabba's neck at his back??
Well.... There's a bit of a sexual element between Leia and Jabba. Jabba wants Leia, makes her wear that bikini, licks her face... Leia is revolted. That's about as far as it gets, but it is sexual.
As for choking Jabba, she's putting the chain around where his neck would be, were he a human, and pulling. That, I suppose, is how you strangle someone, more or less. She's on his back because she has to stand behind him, but he's huge.
There's a thread somewhere on here about it, but the most relevant stuff can be seen on this page
As someone who was there in Baltimore and saw it, I can say that the print was not pristine, but it was pretty darned amazing. There was definitely dirt on it, but not a whole lot. It was beautiful.
I'd say that the two things I learned about Star Wars at that showing were that the colors should be pretty vivid (although the photos of the screen overdo the contrast a bit), and it should definitely look like it was made in the 70s.
Yeah, actually... the closing shot of ROTJ does a really good job of saying "Jedi wear brown robes".
Never mind.
As for fanedits, I'm sure they'll use uspcales of the dvd deleted scenes. It won't be perfect, but it'll have to do.