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jrs81
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The Prequels as Mando style episodes; PM for Links
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22-Dec-2021, 3:33 PM

Special thanks to:

EddieDean for inspiring me and encouraging me to do this, Hal9000 whose Prequel Edits have been my go to for years now, Bryantmh for his AI upscales of the deleted scenes, and KK650 whose color corrected theatrical cuts served as my starting point. Both the Title cards and credit music I found on Youtube. Title cards created by Valox, and music by Samual Kim.

Larger edits are listed below, but does necessarily include all the small trims and cuts:

Episode 1 - Phantom Menace: Invasion (Minimal Changes)

  • Jar Jar’s yell is gone when he dives into the water.
  • Ric Olei’s face is gone when he says the shield generator has been hit. His delivery/expression always irritated me.
  • The scene of Maul and Palps on the Coruscant balcony didn’t fit my episodic flow, but I didn’t want to leave it out entirely. This is now an end credit scene.

Episode 2 - Phantom Menace: Meeting Anakin (Substantial Changes)

  • The dinner table scene has been edited quite a bit. Most of the dialogue is awful and I didn’t like how Shmi was so against Anakin podracing, “I don’t want you to race, It’s awful. I die every time you do it.” and then suddenly “There is no other way, he was meant to help you.”
  • All references to Anakin building 3PO are gone. Now he is just an acquired droid that Anakin messes around with.
  • Blood test remains and Midichlorians remain for Canon purposes although the scene was trimmed a bit to remove reference to other jedi.
  • virgin birth is gone.
  • pod race is unchanged.

Episode 3 - Phantom Menace: Anakin Goes to Coruscant (Moderate Changes)

  • Incorporated 2 deleted scenes, Anakin fights Greedo and Goodbye to Jira.
  • Qui-Gon and Council edited to remove references to Virgin birth.

Episode 4 - Phantom Menace: Return to Naboo (Moderate Changes)

  • Gone is the Maul blood splatter when Obi-Wan slices him. Edited a few frames to speed up Obi-Wan’s leap over Maul. Small adjustment, big impact in my opinion.
  • Anakin in space battle, the usual cuts and some new cuts. Left in some of the common cuts, and cut out some other pilot commentary. Altered Anakin’s triumphant escape and “Woos!” from the exploding federation ship. Just one “Woo” now.
  • Cut the celebration

Episode 5 - Attack of the Clones: Assassination Attempt (MASSIVE changes)

I am REALLY proud of this edit. These edits are 10 years in the making back when I first started messing around with AOTC. I believe the biggest problem with AOTC, and the prequels in general, is that we MUST believe that Anakin and Padme are in love if SHE is the reason he falls to the darkside, but after we meet teenage Anakin for the first time, WE have trouble liking him because of bad dialogue and his introduction. There is no possible way to believe that Padme would fall in love with him.

Biggest Changes:

  • New Intro to Anakin, Jedi in action as opposed to being lectured by Obi-Wan on the couch
  • Only one assassination attempt on the landing platform. Gone is the poisonous space slugs and speeder chase through the sky which was too long with bad dialogue/development.
  • Deleted scenes added include Padme addresses the senate, Obi-Wan dart Analysis, and most of Anakin and Padme on Naboo.
  • New edit implies that Anakin and Padme have seen each other on various occasions and have been friends since Phantom Menace, leading us to believe that their romantic feelings developed over time instead of just in this one movie.
  • Almost every scene has been moved, removed, or altered to improve the dialogue, character development, and flow. Was able to get Anakin and Padme off Coruscant in less than 15 minutes.

If you are quite familiar with AOTC, many of these changes may be jarring on first viewing, but FOR ME, this works better than I could have imagined and I hope it works for all of you as well. Give it a 2nd or 3rd watch if the rearranged scenes take you out of it on the 1st viewing. Your mileage may vary…

Episode 6 - Attack of the Clones: Clones and Seperatists (Minimal Changes)

  • Primary edits and trims are during transitions as Obi-Wan scenes now flow one after the other, with no cutting away to Anakin and Padme.
  • Most creative edits in this episode revolve around Obi-wan’s message to Anakin on Tatooine and the Jedi Council on Coruscant. Anakin and Padme have been removed from this message. They will see a replay of the message with instructions from Mace in the next episode.
  • R2-D2 receives the above message and immediately transmits it to Coruscant.

Episode 7 - Attack of the Clones: Rescue Mission (Substantial changes)

  • Episode covers Padme and Anakin on Tatooine and Geonosis. Episode ends after Arena battle with Boba holding his father’s head.
  • Tatooine edits were done to lessen whiney Anakin. Gone is his rant about killing Tusken women and children, but kept Padme comforting him.
  • Mace Windu contacts and updates Anakin on the Obi-Wan situation. No Palps office included in this. We stay on Tatooine with Anakin and Padme’s perspective. Also eliminated Padme’s double magic button press which seems to work everything on the ship. The button is now only used to Track Obi-Wan’s ship.
  • Included Deleted scene with Anakin and Padme face to face with Dooku on Geonosis.
  • Geonosis droid factory and arena battle heavily edited to remove 3PO and R2. Also trimmed a LOT of shots to eliminate bad CGI and pacing issues. Rearranged a few of the battle sequences for what I believe to be a better flow.