timdiggerm

There are, of course, too many to name

STAR WARS

• The Dune Sea
• Binary Sunset
• The Cantina Band
• TIE Fighter Attack
• Leia’s Theme is pretty

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

• The Asteroid Field
• Han and the Princess
• Lando’s Palace
• Yoda’s Theme
• I guess the Imperial March has to be on here too

RETURN OF THE JEDI

• Sail Barge Assault
• Jabba’s Theme (and also his Baroque Recital)
• Alliance Assembly
• Luke and Leia is actually pretty good
• Into the Trap
• Light of the Force
• and yes the Emperor’s Theme is very good, and the Forest Battle Suite is a nice collection

THE PHANTOM MENACE

• Duel of the Fates obviously
• The Swim to Otoh Gunga
• The Droid Invasion
• Augie’s Great Municipal Band

ATTACK OF THE CLONES

• Across the Stars
• The Chase Through Coruscant

REVENGE OF THE SITH

• Battle of the Heroes is good

THE FORCE AWAKENS

• Rey’s Theme is one of the most wonderful pieces in all of Star Wars
• Han and Leia is a nice one
• Scherzo for X-Wings
• The Jedi Steps
• March of the Resistance and the villains’ theme is good too

THE LAST JEDI

• Rose’s Theme is good, wherever that is
• Canto Bight, despite being a dumb sequence in the film, is sooooo good

The other soundtracks I have barely heard, if it all, so I can not comment on those. I am sure they have some good stuff.

Adult Clint Howard, in his Trek costume. Perfect.

Tobar said:

timdiggerm said:

Given that this is their final season, let’s hope they pull off the sort of swan song they never got, something akin in feel to The Undiscovered Country.

They had their perfect send off in All Good Things. The movies that followed and the Picard series in particular highlight the truth in the saying you can never go home again.

I feel sorry for the fans who held off watching the new series but will now start doing so in anticipation for season 3. As the first season is one of the most cynical, cold and cruel things I’ve ever watched. I’d never been personally offended by a television series before this. And the second season isn’t much better. What they’ve done to Gene Roddenberry’s vision is unforgivable.

I have not seen any new Trek since Star Trek Beyond, but I have enjoyed reading the plot summaries of Picard Season 2 (Season 1 sounded too convoluted IMHO, but, again, hard to judge without actually watching it) - it sounds like a fairly plausible Q Episode, maybe a two-parter, stretched to season-length. Q does something stupid to mess with Picard and test him in some way, but this time there’s time-travel involved as well, and a look at what is essentially the Mirror Universe (but not, for canon-reasons). Sure, why not.

You make a good point about All Good Things, though. That is, indeed, the perfect series finale.

Hal 9000 said:

When Snoke is cut in half, Clint Howard scurries out.

Like… Child-actor-in-that-one-episode-of-Star-Trek Clint Howard, or are you imagining small-role-in-his-brother’s-movie-adult Clint Howard?

We should also remember that people really did see Star Wars over and over and over, even if they weren’t taking notes for a costume. That’s how amazing it was, and that’s why it was in theatres for months and months, got re-released, etc.

Darth Retcon said:

I wasn’t expecting this. Not all at once. But am glad it is happening 😃

https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1511388299973124099

Given that this is their final season, let’s hope they pull off the sort of swan song they never got, something akin in feel to The Undiscovered Country.

Wow, that really gives me some hope for the all the B/W stuff from ROTJ

Thanks for all the kind words.

If anyone has any ideas on what kind of infographic or chart would best represent rearranging a timeline, I’m all ears.

theprion said:

Looking good. It would be interesting to see this as an extended grindhouse, seeing how rough is some of the footage. It’d make up for a very charming experience.

So that the final effect is not so jarring, might be good to use some version of 4K80 as the base print once that’s released

I’m really impressed that there’s as much material for the Wampa stuff as you even have here!

adywan said:

Quick update:

https://www.facebook.com/swrevisited/posts/5548152045200332

For those without Facebook…

adywan said:

I’m Back!!!

Well what a shit start to the year. facebook has finally given me back posting rights to this page after all he fuss with my phone number . Took them bloody long enough to accept it. I would have been back early last month but i had to go and get bloody covid. Knocked me for six and still suffering with the after effects. Energy levels of a 90 year old now. lol.

Anyway, since Facebook blocked me i decided to stay off the net and concentrate on working on ANH:R. Bloody hell i got so much done. Its surprising just how much longer its taking me to do each shot compared to when i did the same shots in the Standard Def version all those years ago. Working in HD really does slow things down. Rotoscoping especially. Things you could get away with when working in DVD res you just can’t with HD. But it will be worth it in the end.

Work on ROTJ:R, at the moment, has almost halted. I want to get ANH:R HD out of the way first. Working on both at the same time became a bit of a nightmare. Burned me out almost. That doesn’t mean to say that nothing is being done on it though. I’m about to start building some of the models that will hopefully be ready to shoot in the summer ( need the good weather to shoot some outside) . I’ll also be tacking some of the FX shots when i take a break from ANH. But the majority won’t start until ANH:R HD is complete and released

CarboniteSolo said:

You obviously don’t know your Star Wars lore, if you didn’t think Tatooine was going to play a major part in Obi-wan Kenobi. It’s where young Luke Skywalker lives.

It’s also where Obi-wan lives.

I thought it was a fine trailer. This is not a show for space battles or even big battles. There will be some action, but it’s mostly about Obi-Wan being sad and wanting to protect Ani’s kids while the Empire is hunting for Jedi. That seems good to me.

The question is: Are the ways we interact with and view people influenced by the ways we think about our imaginary worlds?

Anakin Starkiller said:

Honestly at this point just post the clip in the thread.

BedeHistory731 said:

Make each “episode” a TV season made up of different movies (the PT, Andor, Kenobi, Solo, R1, etc.).

I was actually thinking for a few years now how you could weave together all the various spinoffs into a Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away anthology series.

How different would this be from just…what they’re doing?

Maybe after Andor there will be enough pre-ANH, live-action Rebellion content to stitch it, Solo, Kenobi, and Rogue One into a movie, but I kind of doubt it. Solo has the problem of being a great prequel but which, in sequence, really comes out of left field. Who are these characters? What do they have to do with…anything??? Rogue One is better in this regard, but still not great (Hey look it’s Bail Organa! Oh he’s gone).

It used to be the original film, but the more times I watch Christmas Carol, the more times I recognize it as the greatest.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/star-trek-chris-pine-zachary-quinto-zoe-saldana-1235021307/

I’m not optimistic about the script, given their track record, but maybe…

I guess I’ll put this here, since although it’s about a line of dialogue in Star Wars (1977), it’s more about decisions made in The Star Wars Holiday Special and/or Revenge of the Sith.

All Wookiees other than Chewbacca should have been depicted with their fur kept trimmed short. Otherwise, Leia’s “walking carpet” line makes her a terrible racist.

Glad y’all have enjoyed. I just made a big update after being given a look at a fan-scanned revised 3rd draft of the film. Definitely changed some scene orderings & script details. I’ve also included links to relevant videos throughout, a few more storyboards that have appeared online, and a look on the Sources page into what storyboards typically look like.

The only big thing I’d like to do, other than get the missing storyboards, is do a detailed analysis of how things were rearranged in the editing process. Maybe someday!

It does seem like the Holdo maneuver’s look was based that storyboard, but I think it’s ultimately a misinterpretation of what was intended; the ROTJ scene is showing a Starcruiser exploding alongside a Stardestroyer, due to what I’d characterize as the Star-Wars-equivalent of Star Trek’s Warp Core Breach. The ship is so damaged its reactor goes critical or whatever. So they drew that picture to convey the intensity of the explosion, and decades later its used as inspiration for a very different event on screen.

Well, it took me a little more than two months, but this thread directly lead to my storyboard-based reconstruction: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Reconstructing-the-end-of-ROTJ-with-Storyboards/id/92274

I have attempted to reconstruct the shooting script & various other plans for ROTJ’s final third using scanned storyboards available online as my primary source. This took some time, and also used behind the scenes videos, the Rinzler book, etc. I have done my best to document the whole thing here:

https://macrobinoculars.wordpress.com/

It may be interesting to some of you to read through the whole thing, though I find the Space Battle and Rebel Assault sequences to be the most interesting. Do not neglect the Analysis page, which has some really interesting behind-the-scenes photos of storyboards. Please note that you can download a big PDF with all of the storyboards for your own use.

I welcome any questions, suggestions, critiques, or (best of all) any scans or photos of storyboards that I’m missing.

This is my favorite storyboard that I found during the process:

I suspect Boba is fine with the spice trade on Tatooine when it’s run by Tatooiners, with the citizens of Tatooine benefiting. The Pyke Syndicate moving into Tatooine and taking everything over does not meet that standard.

jedi_bendu said:

Either that is setting up him trying to follow the ancient Jedi dogma too strictly and failing as he indicates in TLJ

I mean, it’s not like The Story Group is going to pretend the sequels aren’t canon.