ADR14NAT1ON, yeah, I’ll take a close look at Malevolence. The Ahsoka/Plo stuff is good, and the escape pod killing is great, I just don’t think the rest of the arc is strong, especially the ending, which becomes a bit of a Scooby Doo caper. I think if it has any hope of preservation it needs a different ending which quickly gets Anakin onto the ship without faff - and the stealth ship might achieve that. I think the chances of me pulling that off are low, but I’ll try it.
I’m intending to change the music, but yes, to do it in such a way that the new music gets a good while to sink in and set the tone. Replacing the fortune cookie with Solo text allows for a lot more flexibility.
KoK, agreed on Bounty, I’ve shifted that up into Continuity at least. Order 66 arc I’ll at least work into the Siege of Mandalore intro text for the Mandalorian Cut audience. And Citadel is an important one for me to review, so it’s a priority.
Delpheas, I’m so glad to have your input, and your permission to use FotR. I was always a big fan of the original idea to make RotS match the Clone Wars (since it developed even our core characters so much), and intersplicing it with Siege of Mandalore is the obvious sensible choice for presenting it in a way that lets it really give you a good kick in the guts. I might think about offering an alternative presentation where it’s episodic (suprise suprise), maybe cut around days, if it’s possible to cleanly do so just to make it more digestible. But again, only with your blessing (and crediting you).
That reminds me, I said above that I probably would try to avoid offering A and B versions of episodes, though I think the finale has as many as three: (A) RotS movie then SoM arc, (B) RotS and SoM interlaced as FotR, ('C) B but episodic. I can see valid reasons for someone to want to watch any of these.
Hal, thanks again. I will ultimately allow this to be my own project because I think I’ve got an angle here worth sharing - especially I’d like the live Clone Wars Wednesdays airings to be a more curated list than people are expecting because I’d like to test this theory on people who don’t know what to expect and so have fewer preconceptions. Feedback from the live airing might cause me to backstep a little towards a more conventional level of inclusion. But I also want there to be a hell of a lot of community input along the way. Already people have added huge value by catching things I’d missed, or arguing the case for episodes, or presenting ideas. The project is already better than it would have been if I’d approached it alone.
Darth-gary, yeah, I’ll think about this. I was suprised to find that the Clone Wars only last three years. I do want to give viewers a sense of the passage of time to at least some degree of accuracy. I don’t know if I’ll land on exact dates (since I am shifting content around and that might upset the purists), but I want to use my intro text to at least include a bit more sense of cause and effect (couldn’t destroy Kamino clone facility so now we’re dependent on building more droid factories, etc), and also of the war’s ebb and flow over time (for example emphasising that the outer rim sieges are having the effect of pulling Jedi away from the core).