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Thank you, that does come in handy if the site goes down again. I can probably help with the cataloguing at some point as I've been spending a lot of time figuring out episode numbers (fun fact: the original Sorcerer's Stone commentary is counted internally as episode 118).

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So the site died and is back again...yay! Now I'm trying to download and archive all the podcasts. I have some questions:
1.) Why were the two unreleased podcasts (New Moon and Zombieland) unreleased? And when were they actually recorded and/or planned to be released?
2.) Is there any sort of internal numbering list for episode numbers? I ask because I'm trying to number all the episodes as I download them, but it seems there's no way to be sure what counts as a numbered episode and what doesn't. For example the "Changes to Come" 2 minute announcement (that "DIF" could no longer be used as a name) actually has metadata that labels it as the 178th episode. I wouldn't have numbered it as an episode myself, but that makes me wonder if the "Third Anniversary Announcement" also counts as an episode or if "The Potter Announcement" counts as an episode?. If Malariathon 1 is supposed to be episode 200, then all three of these "announcement" podcasts cannot be numbered episodes.

I'm probably being too pedantic, but any insight would be appreciated and helpful as I try to properly label everything I download.

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If you pause at 3:31, it's Ewan McGregor with his episode 2 hair. But yeah this was a cool video. Progressively, these music videos showed less and less behind-the-scenes footage. This one has footage of both the production and Williams conducting. The episode 2 music video only has the Williams footage. And the episode 3 one has nothing from behind-the-scenes and only has movie footage.

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TPM was shot on 35mm, but weren't the VFX shots scanned in at 2k and then printed back onto film? And since there's a lot of VFX shots, I'd guess that most of the film's negative only has 2k worth of resolution anyway. Though it is possible that they went back to camera negatives, scanned those in at 4k, and then re-composited the CGI, but I don't know if the old software they used would even work on today's computers.

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Besides revisiting the next two prequels, I have another commentary idea: the original trilogy special editions! If I recall, the original DIF/FIYH commentaries were (rightfully) for the theatrical versions. But it would be neat to hear everyone's thoughts on the special edition changes and how well (or not well) they blend with the original VFX.

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What a treat! Thanks for doing this commentary guys! Teague, you haven't lost a step at all with the classic DIF/FIYH sync point instructions.

I haven't finished listening to it yet, but I'm really enjoying how you guys approached it from the lens of "What are our opinions on this thing before the internet told us to hate it?". Because my suspicion has long been that people typically thought The Phantom Menace was a fun movie, but had big problems with the next two. Speaking of which, I hope we get another commentary on Attack of the Clones in the future with this same kind of lens (although I don't think any kind of lens will be able to save that one from scrutiny)........Oh, and what did you guys think about The Last Jedi?

And about the Jedi robes discussion, although Obi-Wan's and Owen's robes look kind of similar in the original movie, Obi-Wan's are much closer in appearance to samurai robes (longer cloak that goes down to feet, huge sleeves), and Lucas did take inspiration from those Kurosawa samurai films. At some point though, I think he did want to make the Jedi have outfits similar to Luke's in ROTJ, but may have just decided to revert back to his original inspiration for what the Jedi were.

Oh and I think Ryan has become the new Trey with his interesting personal anecdotes.

^^ I feel the same way. I could totally see it being a discussion topic on The Intermission.

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Wayback only archived the main forum page for August 2018. The latest for any of the subforums is February 2018. And even then, it didn't actually archive any of the threads, so it probably won't be much help unfortunately.

Still, thanks for keeping the forum running! I'll always be a big fan of the podcast and it's nice that this place exists.

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Mike, hearing you talk about & analyze movies on these commentaries has been a big part of my life so I'm really glad to see that you're doing much better and even posting here again.

P.S. maybe you can convince Teague to do some more podcasts haha

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I was listening to the N64 podcast and, coincidentally, I also got Mario Kart 64 as my first game despite wanting Super Mario 64. Great system.

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The Extended Edition reunion really did feel like old times again. But yeah, I'd love to hear new podcasts as well. Even if they're not commentaries, other types of podcasts would be cool too. Like maybe something talking about the state of movies today, or a new Uncomposed about modern film scores (I loved reading Alex's write-up about The Force Awakens' score), or even (and this was mentioned a while back) a podcast about color grading in movies would be fun.....if they want to do it of course.

They're apparently making a 5th season of Prison Break.

I would totally listen to a "color in film" podcast. It would also be neat to hear about the reasons why some films have different color grading on DVD/Bluray from their theatrical release.

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Oh true, I'd almost forgotten about that post. Very enlightening stuff.

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I have a question about one of the things mentioned in the TFA commentary. It was said that John Williams didn't score it to picture like he did with the previous Star Wars movies. Is there a source for this? Or is it just inside knowledge?

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That was a nice podcast. It was like a reunion with old friends....in my head (I promise I don't have schizophrenia).

But seriously, it would be awesome to have the FIYH guest starring in Extended Edition podcasts every once in a while. I'm not even in the movie business, but I love hearing all the analysis and insight.

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