Well, it’s encouraging that nobody seems to think I’m mad for considering this yet. Thanks for the initial feedback on the idea, folks.

In that case, I’m going to get to work. I’ve long had a spreadsheet of notes on the Clone Wars chronology and various edits, so that gives me a good start, and I’ve got NumeralJoker’s edits, so I can switch out the old episodes with arcs, to give me the basis for each new episode.

First step now is to take each episode in turn and review it on its merits. Is it worth keeping? And if not, are there scenes or elements worth holding on to?

I started last night with the TCW movie. The Christophsis arc is decent enough, and necessary to introduce Ahsoka, but the Hutt baby arc is just horrible. It has too much “Snips”/“Sky Guy”/“Artooie”, the Hutt baby is in almost all scenes and isn’t funny or cute, it’s almost all action which is either bland or wooden, it’s Tattooine yet again (and terrible looking), it’s too early in the war for the Republic to be having to compromise and deal with gangsters, Ziro is a jarring character, Jabba loses his malice, and Padme seems incompetent.

I think, for all of these reasons, it absolutely has to go.

The Christophsis elements, like I say, are fairly decent, though I wouldn’t keep the content about a clone turning traitor. We’ve only just seen the creation of the clone army, I don’t think one of our first deep dives into the clones should be showing their failings. The Deserter did it better.

Any other thoughts there folks?

Finally, on sources: I’ll use NumeralJoker’s 4K AI Upscaled sources, but probably just the 1080p versions. With respect, 4K is probably overkill- and importantly one of the things NJ does after his upscaling is a full colour regrade, which you still get with the 1080p versions. I’ve been watching in 1080p and they seem absolutely stunning. Any objections?