Alex Daily! 
*rewinds* oh huh
no actual frames of Han shooting, say, first here huh
Not even any frames of Greedo shooting at all — Han doesn't shoot first, he's only one to shoot!!
whole "Han shot first" thing blown wide fuckin open
"The door's locked. Move on to the next one."
well if the door is locked there's clearly no way the droids we're looking for are behind it
and that's a wrap on the people of Alderaan
"Our position's correct, except no Alderaan."
crushing
The closest equivalent to what Vader feels like here in the later movies is, like, Captain Phasma. An armour, a voice, a threat. All implication.
"Your destiny lies along a different path from mine."
Obi-Wan knows which one of them is the face of the franchise and which one of them is here to pay for their new house.
"She's rich."
"Rich?"
yeah, Leia's got a lot of cash in the First Bank of Alderaan, you can see it float by now
"I can't see a thing in this helmet."
you know, he really is a little short for a stormtrooper
just a good ol' goofy sci-fi laser gun fight
"I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you!"
wahoo
"The Jedi are extinct. Their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion."
always loved the idea, see also Qui-Gonn in Phantom Menace, with his silly fringe ideas about midichlorians, of the Jedi not as this great galactic peacekeeping force but just a weird, if influential, cult
"Escape is not his plan. I must face him alone."
Obi-Wan's plan is clearly to die so as to be Luke's, well, uh, Uncle Ben, making him the hero of the story
you'd think they'd go further down this tunnel but they can't because it's a matte painting
all three of them are idiots on their own, but together, Luke, Han, and Lei have just enough brain cells to be the scrappy heroes this story needs
"If you hurry, you might catch them!"
you barely need a jedi mind trick to mind trick a stormtrooper
Artoo hacking da computer wall with his droid penis.
"Listen to them, they're dying, R2!"
Threepio is so funny.
"If we can just avoid any more female advice, we ought to be able to get outta here."
han shut the fuck up
"I don't know who you are or where you came from..."
because none of that matters, because what matters is that he's here, right now, doing the right thing even though he doesn't want to
had to take receipt of a package, then got distracted (had to poop), but back now, let's go
Harrison Ford is such a funny physical actor when it's asked of him.
"I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master."
"Only a master of evil, Darth."
he 100% says Darth the same as if he'd said "Dave" — it's just his name here.
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Uncle Ben's power is felt every single time Spider-Man saves somebody
Obi-Wan has visibly been waiting for Luke to get here to see him die.
Vader's foot checking to make sure the robe is actually empty — even he doesn't know what just happened there.
I love every time the Falcon in flight wobbles like the prop on sticks it is. Adore it. Let me feel how you made it.
ba-baa-ba, ba-baa-ba, ba-baa-baa-ba-ba-ba
"I'm taking an awful risk, Vader. This better work."
the guy who let George keep the toy rights over here
"You think a princess and a guy like me—?"
"No."
preposterous, clearly. it'd never work out. they'd have one kid who'd turn out to be an asshole, then they'd break up and both die alone on different planets
"Then man your ships, and may the Force be with you."
general Dodonna never strikes you as a big Force guy, does he.
time for the farm boy to go fight the dragon
look at all these people. look at all these props. look at this world, this story. what a picture.
red seventeen standing by
the seams on the effects just make it /better/. it doesn't hurt any of this at all.
that's a wrap on Jek Tono Porkins.
the deaths of Luke's fellow pilots feel very scary and harrowing even though we've just met all these guys because every single one of them feels like a direct threat to Luke, who we care about — every plane that goes down could've been Luke's
"This is it."
this is it
they're closing in
but the shot is taken — no, it misses!
vader closing in again
Forgot all about them trying to blow up Yavin IV.
"Use the Force, Luke. Let go, Luke. Luke, trust me."
red five lines it up
red five takes the shot and —
boom
Vader going into a tailspin away from the exploding Death Star — the thought of him going "what the FUCK, he blew up my OFFICE" very funny to me.
He's saved the princess and blown up the giant weapon, so naturally it's time for the medal ceremony.
there's been five thousand different explanations for Chewie not getting a medal, but nobody ever brings up that Artoo and Threepio don't fucking get one either
Grain, seams on the effects, no modern additions or clean-up. Is that all it takes? Suddenly everything that comes after this fades away. I no longer see the cartoons, I no longer see the prequels. 4K77 makes the franchise invisible to me. I just see the movie.
I didn't see Vader, Luke’s father. I just saw Luke, orphaned, wanting to know who his dad was, and somehow, as if by magic, I found myself earnestly wondering alongside him.
Maybe it’s just that it’s been a while, maybe I would’ve also had a great time just watching the Maclunkey cut. But 4K77 is completely fucking transformative. Wow. /Wow/.
Genuinely a little overwhelmed by it. Fuck. Holy shit. Watching "Star Wars" for the first time again turned out to be possible. ;__;
I saw the movie George made and released in 1977, and it kicks ass.
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🎏@Alexis Even the rebels can't get over the droidophobia Palpy caused by his manipulation back in menace.