Thanks for sharing the insights into your thought process with M:E, JasonN. In addition to your comments on the fanedit.org review page it becomes quite clear what you are going for.
I personally love this edit. I've been meaning to write a proper review of it for some time but things keep getting in my way. Soon!
The DVD9 version looks spectacular. Since I know you are planning to do a V3 release, I was wondering if you could add a DVD menu page or an audio track that could clarify your intentions as you have just done here. I think for some people the nature of the ending is not clear, and can easily cause upset if people think you are going for the cheap "it was just a dream" trope. I unfortunately had the experience of showing this to someone as their first fanedit and they were hypercritical of not only this edit but the concept of fanedits in general. (I have since decided that Dune: 3rd Stage is the ideal "first time" fanedit because no one can make any qualms about "not respecting the director's vision").
In the case I just described I think your explanations would have proved soothing to this (overreacting) person.
I personally love this edit. I've been meaning to write a proper review of it for some time but things keep getting in my way. Soon!
The DVD9 version looks spectacular. Since I know you are planning to do a V3 release, I was wondering if you could add a DVD menu page or an audio track that could clarify your intentions as you have just done here. I think for some people the nature of the ending is not clear, and can easily cause upset if people think you are going for the cheap "it was just a dream" trope. I unfortunately had the experience of showing this to someone as their first fanedit and they were hypercritical of not only this edit but the concept of fanedits in general. (I have since decided that Dune: 3rd Stage is the ideal "first time" fanedit because no one can make any qualms about "not respecting the director's vision").
In the case I just described I think your explanations would have proved soothing to this (overreacting) person.