Vaderisnothayden said:
Ric Olie said:
I'm still waiting for someone to involve everyone's favorite SW character...
Ric Olie wants to get involved?
I'm pretty sure he meant Typho.
The most common opinions here are: (as far as I can tell)
O-OT is the best.
PT is the worst.
The EU is here or there, but probably group consensus is that it's overall better than the PT. (Or tell me if I've assumed incorrectly. VINH, if you had to rank your disdain... would you put the PT or EU as the worst part of SW?)
So, any attempts to overwrite the standing EU with something that is more similar or takes its cues from the PT probably isn't going to be a very popular idea.
I gave my opinion earlier. I think the EU has a lot of crap in it, but also some awesomeness. I don't read all of it or much of it anymore, but I would rather have what's there currently than start over from scratch and have 100% garbage. Especially since so much of the EU was based on just the O-OT and a reboot would necessarily be based more on the "wholistic" 1-6 "saga" and "clone wars" show.
So.... what are you doing here, exactly then?
Isn't that sort of the hollywood deifintion of "producing?" Not originally creating something, but helping it develop until it's finished?
But I'm saying I like the EU a lot more than the prequels or the Clone Wars cartoon. So, if they wipe out the current "meh quality" EU and replace it with "atrocious quality" EU... then that would be for the worse.
From what I've seen, 90% of the new stuff coming out of LucasFilm/Arts is worse than the bad stuff from the mid to late 90s.
Are they taken from the widescreen deliverable (480p or 1080p) or from the 2k or 4k master (assuming it's done)?
Lucas is pretty good at decanonizing stuff.
"This is not the canon you are looking for!"
That would probably be the best way of doing it.
Not that I'm convinced that it would make the EU any better. I think it's as good as it's going to get.
Timstuff said:
Mace had one hand, and that's all he needs because he's a bad ass. ;)
I thought he lost both hands in that scene? I won't argue with you because I pretend that the movie (and therefore the character) doesn't exist so I'm sure I haven't played the closest of attention.
Also, I know GC shows can be done seriously, but I got visions of this in my head while I was reading your post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w. (Funmation Watchmen)
It has the potential to make Thrawn become an ineffective "Shredder" type villain.
My wife and I have been reading the Thrawn trilogy recently and it's made me realize that the "true" sequel to RotJ would more or less be the "boring parts" of those books: the political problems inherant in starting a new Gov't to replace the Empire. Similar to the struggle in the USA after independence. Everyone could agree that the imperials had to be thrown out (I'm speaking, of course, of all you British dogs here on the site :) ) but no one was quite sure what had to replace it. After the Empire, they couldn't simply go back to the Old Repuplic style of Gov't- the Galaxy had changed too signifigantly for that! The Galaxy was used to imperial rule, but wanted something else- something better. What could that be? And who could rule it? Did someone need to rule it? Was a transitionary Gov't required to get things in order before the old form of Gov't would work again? Could you return to the era of a Repuiblic with no army or navy of its own? How can you create a new order without becoming the New Order of the Empire?
But that would make a fairly boring show. No action, no Jedi vs Sith battles, no superweapons to blow up. It wouldn't evoke Star Wars much.
Timstuff said:
Note my avatar-- do you really think getting his hand cut off, being zapped, and falling out a window would be enough to take Mace out for good? If Anakin can free fall through a freeway and land on a car, so can Mace. ;)
Anakin had hands when he did that. :)
I think timetravel is the last thing the Star Wars EU needs.
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Are you suggesting the Lucas kids are not George's? Do go on!
OriginalOriginalLucas?
Nice.
If you had Company Man on there, I'd say definitely keep that. Or watch it on TBS every weekend.
You are what you eat.
Or at least George Lucas is KFC.
Taze him!
That is an aboration, it's not the post I remember from two weeks ago! Stop raping my two weeks ago!
I don't think he's doin' it for the ladies.
The whispers are just people whispering...?
LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!
If so... LAME!
Dang it.
I, with respect to quality, vote for Palpatine. er... I mean Lucas.
How about now?
You must not be very current in Halo...
As a finished product, I agree that fullscreen is terrible. I was mostly commenting that you get higher resolution image on that part what is still there... assuming that it's pan & scanned from a high resolution source and not the companion widescreen version. In case that isn't clear, if the pan and scan version comes from the film negative or a 2k or 4k scan of the negative, then you get some higher quality images than the widescreen version. Not that you'd want to watch it that way, but if you wanted to *ahem* borrow the images for DVD covers, or fan edits, or something like that... they are higher quality than the widescreen of the same since they are made of more pixels.
Furthermore:
There are 345,600 pixels in a 4x3 480p image. If ~50% of those pixels are black bars and another %25 of those pixels are the sides that are cut off during pan and scanning... then the equivalent pan and scan image is 1/4 of the total resolution: 86,400. Compared to the resolution of the same box in the P&S version: 345,600. There are 921,600 pixels in a 16x9 720p image. The same movie would be about 33% black bar in this movie. And then the same square would be about half of the remaining image. Or 304,128 pixels. So, the resoltion of the P&S square (likely the most important part of the image) is actually higher in the SD P&S image than it is in the HD Widescreen image (at 720p). Of course, the best is the 1080p image.
Again, I'm not advocating watching movies in P&S, but for creative types looking to borrow the images, the value of a P&S release should not be overlooked. Based on the assumption that the P&S pixel data come from a higher def source than the wideside version itself.
I do enjoy Legacy. I'm 5 or 6 issues behind and I hope it picks up soon. The covers for the 5 or 6 look good enough!