This sounds really interesting? What are your plans for the Hera stuff?
I’ll have an update on that as I do a story analysis of each episode. Do you have any recommendations in the meantime?
Really interested in this. I’ve only watched the show the once, and don’t have the capacity to load it in and thoroughly analyse it right now, but I think you have exactly the right approach.
That said, if you do a watch-along analysis, I’d love to jump in and join you on that.
Certainly, I would definitely love to pick your mind on a re-watch if you have time. I could benefit from your experience from your project.
How certain are you that you want to run with the movie length idea? I found “as long as necessary” serves my Clone Wars edits well, without binding me to a rough runtime, and that coupled with using text crawls up front allows me to pull weaker content out of the episodes themselves (where necessary) and to pace and bridge the content more freely.
I love what you’ve done with TCW arcs to simply tell the best story possible, no matter the length. Honestly, that’s how Disney should have released them in the first place, especially once it went to Netflix exclusive. There’s no reason to fill timeslots with poor writing just to meet a pre-designated number.
For this project, I want to find a balance between what you have done with your TCW:R project and what Smudger is doing with his Mandalorian movies. Reorganizing scenes between episodes, cutting out the fluff, but ultimately creating a storyline that can be digested in a single sitting in a complete way. I’m not going to get hard locked into pre-determining a time length or movie count beforehand though. An initial estimation is aiming for 1.5-3 hour films, either 2 or 3 of them total depending on pacing.
One thing to take into account is that what may seem like filler now, may end up being more important in future seasons / Star wars shows.
True, always something to consider. If in the future something from Season 1 turns out to be content that feels left out after Season 2 releases then I can always just update to another version. At this time though I will only be focused on turning Season 1 into the best self-contained story it can be.