Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
if the quality of digital voices has advanced to the point of being indistinguishable from the real voice then thats amazing - I had an emotional response to hearing it!
Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)
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Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
I found some of the editing or the way some scenes were depicted oddly looking. Like the chase for Leia - there was maybe one or two believable moves and the rest just weren't. I think they could have done that better, maybe with having more guards interfere or something.
The Obi-Wan/Vader fight suffered from teleporting characters. But the teleporter doesn't seem to work near fire.
But I like Leia. They gave her sass, but also some emotional moments. Reva seems rather unpopular with people, but I actually liked her. The biggest problem is that she makes the other Inquisitors, because she clearly gets results where they don't. That could be written better, I think. But I actually want to know why she is so eager to catch Obi-Wan - and if she has any other agenda but becoming Grand Inquisitor.
The Obi-Wan/Vader fight suffered from teleporting characters. But the teleporter doesn't seem to work near fire.
But I like Leia. They gave her sass, but also some emotional moments. Reva seems rather unpopular with people, but I actually liked her. The biggest problem is that she makes the other Inquisitors, because she clearly gets results where they don't. That could be written better, I think. But I actually want to know why she is so eager to catch Obi-Wan - and if she has any other agenda but becoming Grand Inquisitor.
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
The voices are not digital recreations. The actors record new lines of dialogue and then they use technology to "de-age" the voices to sound like they did 40-45 years ago. I think it is shown being used in some of the behind-the-scenes stuff for Book of Boba Fett when talking about Mark Hamill.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Sure. They are digital recreations of the classic voice. I don't know all the ins-and-outs of how they did it, but AFAIK James Earl Jones didn't record new lines here. Though Hayden Christiansen did.
Marc Radle
Legend
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve seen a bunch of articles about this from CNN, Deadline, Daily Mail, TV Line, and a number of others, and they all confirm the James Earl Jones did the voice and recorded all the dialog. There was no mention of it being created using AI or being combined with Hayden’s voice.
Some of these did say that Respeecher — the same company that digitally modified the dialog Mark Hamil had recorded to sound more like a thirtysomething Luke Skywalker’s voice for The Mandalorian and Boba Fett — provided “Voice Conversion Services” for this episode.
Some of these did say that Respeecher — the same company that digitally modified the dialog Mark Hamil had recorded to sound more like a thirtysomething Luke Skywalker’s voice for The Mandalorian and Boba Fett — provided “Voice Conversion Services” for this episode.
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Guest 7034872
Guest
So they de-aged Jones' voice after he delivered the lines? I suppose that'd make sense, though from listening to recent interviews I'd say his voice has aged really well.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Hmm. Okay. That's good to know. I love James Earl Jones, he's the best.
BrokenTwin
Biological Disaster
I'm mostly curious about Reva not having the yellow sith eyes, honestly. To me that seems be a hint that she's not fallen as far as the others have, and might end the series with a redemption(-equals-death, perhaps) arc.
Or lazy costume design, but the costuming seems pretty good (unlike some of the set designs). I'd like to see Reva actually set up some plot instead of just last-minute reveals that she's behind things, though.
Off-screen teleportation feels like it's always been a thing in this universe, but it's feeling especially notable in this series for some reason. Probably just because having Reva:
1. Find the tunnels well after they had started running down them.
2. Figure out which exit they were going for.
3. Beat them there despite the massive head start.
4. Not run into the lady with Leia, despite them presumably having to have gone past each other at some point.
5. Kill the guy that was supposed to meet them with enough time to hide the body and avoid alerting Leia.
Immediately made me go Emperor's New Groove.
"No! How did you get here before us?!?"
"A... how did we, Kronk?"
"Well, ya got me. By all accounts it doesn't make any sense."
MarkB
Legend
Those seem to come and go. Anakin gets them after he kills the Separatist leaders on Mustafar, but when Padme and Obi-wan meet him there shortly afterwards they're mostly back to normal.
She didn't hide the body. He's lying on the floor right behind her when she greets Leia.
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