I apologise if it at all came off as a criticism of your edits, Kanemedhurst. I’m not trying to belittle any of the fantastic effort and technical achievement anyone else has done. I’ve been watching and enjoying two-ish-arcs-as-a-movie edits for at least eight years.

What I’m trying to convey here is that the approach of attempting to adhere to a movie length presents its own particular challenges which - however well they’ve been handled by other editors like yourself - can be avoided if we don’t consider ourselves beholden to the movie length idea. And that to date, as far as I can tell, Clone Wars editing has focused on the movie length approach.

I mention other edits including your own for three reasons: Firstly, by way of comparison, because none of these edits exist in isolation, and all edits learn from and acknowledge one another even if they approach the shared goal via a different path. If my edits are good, they’ll be good because of all the work that came before them, not in spite of it. Secondly, because knowledge of these edits gives context to my theory. And thirdly (and leastly), because demonstrating an awareness of other approaches within this problem space establishes some credibility, which can be helpful when trying to foster input from other forum members. But on that last point, there’s a difference between establishing credibility (which is non competitive) and looking to boost appeal or to put down others (which is).

Of course, anything we produce is going to be subjective. I’d guess that far more people would prefer a series of movies highlighting the key arcs than would prefer a TV series of random lengths. But there’s no competition in this space - every time any fan edit gets released, the community as a whole benefits.

Either way, I hope that helps you feel like I’m not trying to compete or criticise. You’ve put a lot of thought into your edits so I’d absolutely welcome any input you wanted to give towards this project.