There’s one question I can imagine some people having which I guess I’ll address in advance:
“So it sounds like all you’re doing here is producing an episode list.”
Yes and no.
Firstly yes, a major component of this project will be the ordering of the episodes. It wasn’t necessarily my intention coming into this project, but on review and having tried to analyse the show as a whole, I believe there’s genuine value in a different structure.
Consider also: A movie editor may move scenes around; an editor of a whole TV series may move episodes around. Just because some may not have been technically edited (and unedited episodes remain part of the structure) does not mean the whole hasn’t been functionally edited.
Secondly, no, I will be producing ‘legitimate’ technical edits as well. There are some obvious arcs which require editing- I think maybe four or five priority ones. And every episode will be getting a presentation pass, with new titles, opening text, and closing credits which feature the best art for the episode.
As I pick each such episode off the shelf for its presentation pass, there will also be any polish trims as required.
This may follow a second full review of the series in something approaching the new order, as I work through the kinks of that, and as I look more deeply at each individual episode to see what work needs to be done.