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This was my guess, but I'm wondering how this works exactly. What distinguishes the version number from the version letter?

Can anyone explain the version numbering that sometimes appears in Powell cue lists? i.e. 1m2-3 v2L Bunk-Proxima from Solo

Yes and one major reason for this might be the total lack of thematic continuity in the MCU - I remember watching a mainstream video essay about that many years ago now, how when some characters have a different theme with every film it's hard for audiences to remember them and it all comes off as bland

Brave Browser also works very well, it comes with a built in adblocker so it wasn't affected by Google killing the original uBlock Origin

Just wait until John Murphy's Harry Potter series score

What's the difference between better writing and better story?

In a lot of ways I think that 1992-2012 was the golden age of Star Wars The blossoming success of the EU set the stage for the eternal popularity of the franchise. Fans back then really didn't know how good they had it. The prequels. TCW. LucasArts. The LEGO deal. This was the only era in which we've ever seen star wars soundtrack expansions. They made luxurious home media releases with hours upon hours of bonus features and documentaries. Star Wars Hyperspace offered an unrivaled level of access into the development of Revenge of the Sith, something which had never been seen before or since. This was an era where they actually made making of books, and web documentaries, and production updates. Nowadays we're lucky to get an artbook and a Disney+ special. Going back and reading message boards from like 2003 is so interesting: no one complimented how cool of an idea Hyperspace was, they complained that it was a Lucas money grab and wasn't worth the $20/year subscription fee. I know hindsight is 20/20 but it's really unfortunate in retrospect. Sure, the era wasn't perfect. They should've properly released the unaltered OT. I think there would've been far fewer complaints about the Special Editions if they had. But in almost every facet the Disney era appears to me to be a downgrade. I can't even say that we're getting more content now than we would've if Lucas hadn't sold the franchise. Disney cancelled a lot of projects when they bought it. If Star Wars Underworld had been successful, we might've seen more live action Star Wars television. TCW would've run to completion and might've still spawned spinoff shows. Detours, and 1313, it'd be really interesting to see what an alternate 2025 looks like if Lucas kept star wars.

F12 still works for me; maybe instead of using inspect element try the network activity log?

I've heard several people suggest that most of their recent projects have had super undescriptive titles which I'm sure doesn't help matters.

I guess it's not possible with a hardcover but it would've been cool if the old cover could've been included on the reverse, like how Intrada does album covers.

#2.25 ESB (1980) - 7m2 Attack Position (Wook link)

I love The Orville - it's why I started watching Star Trek in the first place. It is interesting to see all the Star Trek references in The Orville that I didn't get previously. There are definitely quite a few concepts that I was surprised were Star Trek lifts like the two-dimensional life seen in TNG 4.10 The Loss and ORV 1.11 New Dimensions. Making Luke's lightsaber green makes the film better?

Yes, and based on this Omni list it seems to be 100% complete

I wonder why the Up listing stops showing the cue numbers after the first couple

I'll temper my expectations then. I still have quite a-ways to go before I get there, at any rate

Not even SNW? I thought I had read that that goes back to the old formula that people liked. I'm still only halfway through TNG I agree to some degree but at the same time I resubscribed to D+ recently to watch Andor s2 with my dad and while we were at it we also watched Skeleton Crew and The Orville. I remember really liking Skeleton Crew on initial watch but it doesn't really compare when you watch it so close to Andor. I understand they're made for completely different audiences, but I can definitely see where some people are disappointed in other shows by comparison if they watch them too close together

I'm not sure I understand this. The film edit doesn't sound anything alike the original cue. Yes he changed two, this one and the end of 7m3 Yoda Raises the Ship, which we'll get to in a couple weeks, both times an aggressive Imperial March transition got replaced with the very start of the concert suite with just the rhythm

1:57 Good ear! I'd guess that it's just coincidental since it's only 4 notes and not that similar in orchestration, but that's definitely an interesting connection

#2.24 ESB (1980) - 6m5-7m1 The Magic Tree (Wook link)

Wow that new MVSep Piano model is fantastic. You can completely separate the first two cues on the Lincoln FYC for example:

yeah I'd go as far as to say The Asteroid Field might be my least favorite Williams concert suite. It feels repetitive and copy-pastey because it is: 0:00-0:09 = unique concert intro 0:09-0:13 = adapted from 1:59 to 2:03 of film cue 0:13-0:20 = adapted from 2:45-2:52 of film cue 0:20-0:38 = adapted from 1:13-1:31 of film cue 0:38-2:25 = adapted from 1:19-3:06 of film cue 2:25-2:38 = adapted from 1:19-1:32 of film cue 2:38-2:53 = adapted from 1:19-1:34 of film cue 2:53-3:03 = adapted from 1:49-1:59 of film cue 3:03-3:28 = adapted from 2:04-2:29 of film cue 3:28-3:47 = adapted from 3:06-3:19 of film cue 3:47-3:57 = adapted from 2:42-2:52 of film cue 3:57-4:00 = adapted from 2:57-2:58 of film cue 4:00-end = unique concert ending There are multiple sections here that are repeated upwards of 3 or 4 times each. It's substantially less listenable than the film cue

Fascinating. I wonder if the ROTJ album doesn't use the film audio for the music because they couldn't without paying reuse fees - I read from Lukas Kendall once that the Star Wars and ESB reuse fees were paid off as a lump sum when the radio dramas were made, but the same was not done for ROTJ resulting in the fees needing to be paid in 1993. That would be strange though, because the Story of Star Wars LPs came out years before the radio dramas...

Sounds like it does but weirdly the music seems completely out of sync with the dialogue in that section

There's more interesting music changes there too, 6m2 Yoda's Teaching is completely missing, seems to be intentional because the end was replaced with 2m4 The Probe Scanner - some tracking that doesn't appear in the final film. A music change that they reversed course on? Great find! @Tallguy

Oh that is extremely interesting. I hadn't even checked this because the Story of Star Wars album was just a cutdown version of the raw film audio with narration, I assumed they were all the same. It seems that is what the ESB one is too, but they used an earlier rough cut before all of the music edits were finalized. I'm pretty sure that's 1m2 Insert Bar 109 at 2:30