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Sorry for the late reply on this one! I will be doing extended episodes for some (mainly reinserting action sequences in longer arcs) but I don’t think I will for Mortis. It’s one of the few radical changes I’ve made that I think is really warranted - I’m passionate about my frustrations with the original episodes and I’m very proud of what I’ve been able to do to strike a middle ground.
Yes, it doesn’t make masses of sense now, but it does make Lynchian dream-sense, while still giving us the takeaways we need for the wider plot. The removal of motive for the Mortis Gods is extremely deliberate - should Vader in Luke’s Dagobah vision have a motive? No, he’s a vision-being.
With the Order 66 arc, I feel you. That was a tricky cut. The problem was, if we want to preserve Tup’s original escape, it’s loads of boring minutes of additional scenes required as a consequence. I know it’s not ideal, but at least with this new way it is addressed, via that line of dialogue and some reestabilshing shots to show time passing.
I probably won’t do Bad Batch #0 now, since Acbagel has gone and done that as part of his wider Bad Batch edit, which is really where that episode belongs. The scene that’s relevant to TCW in that episode is preserved by my edit.
I don’t intend to do Citadel, or at least, it’s very low down the priority list. Yes, Echo ‘dies’ in it, but in the most throwaway way. He’s not a main character in the arc, given no presence or development, then a casual explosion kills him and another clone shouts ‘Echoooo!’, after which nobody mentions it again. I don’t think it’s worth including the episode just for that throwaway scene, when others can reference Echo’s death later. The arc itself, while it has some good Anakin/Tarkin moments, is fairly poor too. That said, it’s the highest of the ‘low priority’ episodes, I suppose!