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Memorex said:

It has always bothered me that Leia doesn't react over Vader being HER father as well! In the end when the ghosts appear she doesn't seem to care at all about Anakin. I would have added a more stuff about Leia and Vader.

I agree about the lack of Leia and Vader stuff, but I've always thought that only Luke could see the ghosts in that scene.

As someone who has never noticed matte boxes, I just wanted to let you all know that this is absolutely fascinating. Matte lines? Oh sure I see those. Matte boxes? Only ever spotted them in enhanced shots specifically designed to show them off.

Possible exception: the near three-way Star Destroyer collision in ESB?

Ray, that might be the best edit idea I've ever heard.

Needs more humdinger

Kurt said:

Get it somewhere else, ca. 3 hours after it´s release.

after? You underestimate pirates.

To be fair, poodoo is ROTJ, not prequels.

Not that you like ROTJ, of course.

Harmy said:

I think the new master for Episode 1 may actually have been done mainly for the 3D conversion, as they would need to have a complete digital copy for that and the old DVD master wouldn't be good enough for theatrical presentation.

Theory: Everything's brighter because it needs to be brighter for the 3D.

Not sure if that has merit.

Well, I guess that confirms that we'll be seeing the Falcon gunner shots!

So the blurays are ... really bright?

Honestly, I'd do the opposite and eliminate the glider. The trip ropes, the log rolls and the log-smash I can understand. But a glider? really?

pittrek said:

We all KNEW they are using the 2004 master

I don't think that's true, actually. We all believed they were using the 2004 master, but we did not know it. We didn't have any real evidence, besides that one trailer, and, as many pointed out, trailers are not always a good indicator of what will actually be released.

Oh wow. The things you never notice...

Watching the clip again, I noticed there's a Y-Wing parked next to the Falcon during the sandstorm. Am I seeing that right?

I do believe that answers the question remarkably definitively.

Aah, that's a good idea - The "Imperial Facility" could be something on Couruscant itself. I imagine following the insertion vehicle down into the City, either covertly or literally blazing past defenses, could be pretty exciting.

As for the plans--->DSII fade, I agree that it doesn't feel Star Warsy, but I wanted a good way to transition to Vader scene.

CP3S said:

Tim will never cuddle with his R2-D2 plushie in quite the same way again...

Har har. For some reason, I had got it into my head that the relationship between Luke and Artoo was like a guy and his kid sister. I guess little brother works too.

Idea I just had:

Completely re-do the opening to ROTJ, with a newly filmed scene of Bothan spies entering an Imperial facility and stealing the DSII plans along with the info about the Emperor's itinerary. The crawl can easily be adjusted as necessary, something about "Even now some of the Rebellion's operatives are seeking to capture information necessary for a new assault. . ." Many of them die (obviously), but one makes it to their extraction point, where he boards some kind of transport/shuttle and escapes.

GUY ON SHUTTLE: Did you get it?

THE BOTHAN WHO LIVED: Everything we need, and then some.

He pulls out a little holo-emitter and holds up the projection of the plans, on the left side of the camera. The shot then fades (okay, maybe a nice wipe...) to what we know as the ROTJ opening, with the DSII visually replacing the orange plans.

Problems:

• Writing, Filming, Directing, etc a somewhat long and involved sequence that would involve Bothans (costume/makeup) and Stormtroopers and probably Officers as well as special effects. I mean, we're talking a ~5-min short film with music and blasters and everything. And it all has to look like it fits in the same movie as the rest of ROTJ. This is obviously a major problem.
• Characters we've never seen before and won't see again, unless you can insert them into the Briefing (or we conflate/undisambiguate Bothans with Prunefaces)
• Does it even feel like Star Wars?
• I'm sure someone will tell me it's world-shrinkage or something

Advantages:

• Exciting intro to a movie that starts pretty slow
• Shows us another side of the Rebellion
• Adds length to a movie that, after meeting the judicious fan-editor, is probably shorter than the others in the Saga.

So, thoughts?

Dangit.

Never mind. As some would say, /thread

It's pretty well agreed on that Threepio is portrayed as male. Some would say a gay man, but a man nonetheless.

Am I the only one who thinks Artoo is a girl?

Needs more carbon-scoring and a disc that's jammed in there real good.

Needless to say, this is going to open a whole new chapter of work for this site. Full-assed work.

EyeShotFirst said:

I wonder if George will pull a "you have to buy the complete saga" crap to get deleted scenes. He would do that just to shit on the original trilogy fans.

I do believe this is already confirmed to be the case.

But I'm sure we'll all buy them in order to watch fanedits that use the deleted footage.

Yes, yes, yes

Yeah, that could be a real bear to clean up, if it's even possible. I'm not very knowledgeable about such things.