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Initially I wasn’t sure how feasible it would be to extend the absence between Din and Grogu, but as this season is going along I’m definitely more interested in trying to make it work. Think it would be a strong benefit.

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Acbagel has already seen this feedback, but he deserves it in public too!

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  • This is absolutely incredible. I can’t gush about it enough. There have been a few Mando movies hitting the key plot beats from the series, but nothing has done what this does, which is to restructure the existing content to add so much more value. Rather than covering the full plot of season one, this episode is much more of a character piece, and we really get the full picture of Din Djarin’s backstory, character, and challenges. It’s very satisfying, still action-packed, and amazing work.
  • Episodes 1,2,6,3 really are the perfect introduction to Mando as a character. Episode 6, the prison break, does lots more great worldbuilding that absolutely belongs in Mando’s first appearance. In this movie, we now get such a complete picture of Mando’s backstory, Mandalorian culture, and the state of the galaxy post-OT. Perfect marriage.
  • As we’d hoped, splitting the Grogu story around the prison break works so well. It’s now his final falling-out with the world of bounty hunting, and back into the Mandalorian creed and his adoptive son. Excellent.
  • The use of the flashbacks was perfect, and I love how Acbagel took it further to combine Mando’s childhood rescue with the current-timeframe rescue scenes. It deepens the thematic links between Grogu and Mando’s Mandalorian culture. And I’m amazed how many nice moments you found to parallel - the shutting carrier with the bunker, and even the Mandalorian nods. Excellent work.
  • The reintroduction of the Jawas worked well. There’s good Mando and Kuiil stuff in there, and a bit more nice worldbuilding. This was a good call.
  • The audio work was perfect, it all flowed just great.

This was an absolutely excellent edit, executed very very well. I loved it, and I think it’s really going to impress. I have always loved this approach of trying to retain as much as possible from the show whilst just tightening it and presenting it well, and this movie is the perfect kick-off to that. It would make an excellent introduction to the show for a new viewer.

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I’d love a link to your v3 when you have the time. I’m dying to watch it!

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I watched this yesterday and echo what Eddie above has already said. Brilliant job and I look forward to the next part!

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Thanks for all the kind words, glad you folks are enjoying this one! I had a ton of fun watching it too. I’m excited to continue developing this saga.

I’m hard at work working on Book 2: The Reckoning. I am just finishing up the big picture storyboarding on the scene order, so now it’s down to the nitty gritty of the new changes. Again, you can track the live progress here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIVp5tQY9WxxnOe8iRXvG5t4P6vTi1ZCbb8CnxwB_9Q/edit?usp=sharing

Hope to have this out and ready by the weekend! Enjoy Mando day tomorrow, MTFBWY.

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I’m in the middle of Book 1 (just about to start the prison episode), and I have to say you truly did an outstanding job, man. I really love smudger9’s work, but IMHO he has to cut a little bit too much in order to fit the whole thing in a single-shot narrative.

I specially love how you managed to make the action flow better, taking out the childish out of place humor and, of course, Mando leaving Grogu, then going to the prison job, and then returning was a stroke of genius, it just works so well!

Some minor nitpicks:

  1. 39:05 ; Mando says “I THINK it’s a child”. Oh, you think, dude? Could this be changed to a less dumb “it’s a child” or something?

  2. 42:24 ; There remains a weird jawa chant (“egg! egg!”) from the removed bit.

Also, I’m kinda split on the new color grading, half of the time it works really well, but the other half it makes everything a little too artificially warm, bright and redish. But oh well, guess this is up to personal taste. I do however will say that:

  1. The opening cantina scene looks WAAAAY too bright, the color skin of the bearded guy looks so red it’s almost he became a different species.

  2. The black scenes/details are a little low quality video-wise? Very blurred, like we lost some details.I don’t know how to explain, I’m really not into video editing jargons, but maybe it was the black crushing in the processing?

Anyways, will finish watching ep1 today, can’t wait for the next one!! Thanks for this gem!!

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Just had a look at the changelog and this second one is shaping up excellently too. I love this structure- Din fails to find a home with the wetlanders as Boba loses his with the Tuskens, then they crossover. Din’s story features Cara and the threat of constant pursuit throughout and becomes a true sequel to the previous one with the return of Greef and Nevarro.

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PsyGemini said:

I’m in the middle of Book 1 (just about to start the prison episode), and I have to say you truly did an outstanding job, man. I really love smudger9’s work, but IMHO he has to cut a little bit too much in order to fit the whole thing in a single-shot narrative.

I specially love how you managed to make the action flow better, taking out the childish out of place humor and, of course, Mando leaving Grogu, then going to the prison job, and then returning was a stroke of genius, it just works so well!

Thanks for the kind words, Psy! So glad you enjoyed the film, looking forward to sharing Book 2 with you very soon.

Some minor nitpicks:

  1. 39:05 ; Mando says “I THINK it’s a child”. Oh, you think, dude? Could this be changed to a less dumb “it’s a child” or something?

Haha well how I understood that was he was saying “child” as in a sentient being and not an animal. Din would have never seen that species before so it’s him trying to process what a strange creature he has stumbled upon and how that is his bounty. I don’t personally have a problem with his line there.

  1. 42:24 ; There remains a weird jawa chant (“egg! egg!”) from the removed bit.

I didn’t intend to 100% remove them saying “Egg!” Yes, it’s weird, but jawas are weird. Look at how they eat it later. Weird.

Also, I’m kinda split on the new color grading, half of the time it works really well, but the other half it makes everything a little too artificially warm, bright and redish. But oh well, guess this is up to personal taste. I do however will say that:

  1. The opening cantina scene looks WAAAAY too bright, the color skin of the bearded guy looks so red it’s almost he became a different species.

That’s because… He’s uh… a Zeltron 😉

  1. The black scenes/details are a little low quality video-wise? Very blurred, like we lost some details.I don’t know how to explain, I’m really not into video editing jargons, but maybe it was the black crushing in the processing?

Yes, I joke above, but I am aware of both the color grading being somewhat intense in a few scenes as well as some black crushing going on here and there. At some point in the future I might come across a spare 30 hours to go frame by frame and plug in glorious 4k source footage to fix all these scenes… But that is not today! Maybe a v4 with Mando S4, but I have a great deal to do on this v3 update storywise.

Anyways, will finish watching ep1 today, can’t wait for the next one!! Thanks for this gem!!

It’s my pleasure, I’ll write a brief update on the next film below.

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Just had a look at the changelog and this second one is shaping up excellently too. I love this structure- Din fails to find a home with the wetlanders as Boba loses his with the Tuskens, then they crossover. Din’s story features Cara and the threat of constant pursuit throughout and becomes a true sequel to the previous one with the return of Greef and Nevarro.

Yes! Thanks for your input on how to get some more consistent themes presented throughout the films. I have just completed my first draft of Book 2: The Reckoning, and will be watching it tonight for a first bug review. The changelog should be mostly updated aside from anything I want to change after tonight. Hoping for another Friday/Saturday release!

Also, I have many thoughts on how to take Mando S3 content, but I might as well save it for when I actually get to building those films. Feel free to share thoughts and speculate solutions in the meantime though!

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I guess the major question Mando will impose on this edit is “Where in Mando S3 do we get content that feels it could conclude a film?” Because you backtrack from there to the content that needs to be included, and that’ll inform any final decisions regarding the structure of the end of the Mando S2/BoBF content.

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Just got caught up on Mandalorian and had some general thoughts about tackling season 3.

This may not be necessary for what you might be thinking about right now, but I think there are some tools that could be useful in really transforming season 3 content to fit whatever mold you might have in mind.

For starters, as the season progresses I really am digging the idea of separating Din and Grogu for a longer period of time. I do think there will be times where it will be a headache to remove Grogu from certain shots, but there are techniques that can be used accomplish that.

  1. After Effects’ content aware fill can help with masking Grogu out of certain shots.
  2. Sort of like the VFX AG-83 used to cover up Grogu with a bomb in BOBF, he can be covered up with rocks or other objects.
  3. There have been shots in the season where simply cropping the shot could get the job done. Using a 4K source or upcaling software would be useful for these type of shots.
  4. There are definitely shots that you’ll just have to cut out completely. A lot of shots of Din in the N1 fall into this category, especially in the newest episode.

Overall, I could see it being possible though. It might be ambitious, but considering everyone thought having them separated for at least some period of time was a no brainer, I feel like making this change would be pretty transformative, a lot like TFA: Restructured with Starkiller Base.

Another tool that could be useful, even if you used it sparingly, are the new voice AI tools that are being made. Considering a majority of our main characters are wearing helmets, this could be really helpful for scene/plot restructuring, or even crafting more interesting lines. I’ve really felt the writing has been lacking this season, like video game NPCs, so this could be fun to play around with.

This YouTuber, Dewit, posted this video today with an example of Din Djarin.

I’m curious if there would be enough voice samples that could be used to do this for the Armorer and Bo Katan.

I actually think it would be useful to apply this to the existing Luke scenes as well. I know his voice is already AI generated, but I feel like the software has already improved a lot since his featured episodes were released, and his line could be given more emotion and sound bit more realistic if they were remade. This would also allow you to change what Luke tells/teaches Grogu to fit a more Legends-esque version of the character.

Dewit also has an interesting example for Luke at the end of this video It does sound a bit more like “Mark” than “Luke”, probably because he trained it on interviews rather than the films, but I feel like it has more emotion than how he sounds in the Mandalorian. Perhaps if the AI was trained on his lines from the OT, specifically from ROTJ, it would fit more closely with Mark’s “Luke” voice.

I can’t recall if you used it or not, but it would be nice to use Shamook’s deepfake of Luke for the Season 2 finale if you haven’t already used it. Also, not a big deal, but it always sort of bugged me that Luke didn’t even really introduce himself to Din before leaving with the child. A simple “I’m Luke Skywalker” would’ve been nice.

(Also? Since you’re a legends fan too, it could be cool to make Luke’s training planet Yavin by adding the red gas giant to the sky in an establishing shot or something.)

And this idea could even be applied to Boba Fett for any BOBF content that maybe could’ve used a certain line here or there from
Boba.

Anyway, what JarJar Bricks has been doing for TROS: Ascendant has been pretty crazy, but you are still limited mostly to using it for off screen dialogue, or having to use VFX to match mouth movements for a few words here and there. With the Mandalorian, you would have a lot more freedom to redub all of these helmeted characters, and you could even record new voices for Mandalorian characters with brief speaking roles if you needed to convey some information.

And speaking of lines in general, I think it would be nice if you could trim down the use of “This is the Way”. I feel like the Mandalorians day it for every little thing, and it takes away from its gravitas when used for the most trivial things. “You can sit by the fire. This is the Way.”

Hard to have a lot of ideas about the overall plot until this season is over, but I thought it would be useful to keep this stuff in mind when imagining what can be done with this season.

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Acbagel said:

Yes, I joke above, but I am aware of both the color grading being somewhat intense in a few scenes as well as some black crushing going on here and there. At some point in the future I might come across a spare 30 hours to go frame by frame and plug in glorious 4k source footage to fix all these scenes… But that is not today! Maybe a v4 with Mando S4, but I have a great deal to do on this v3 update storywise.

If this ever does happen, my year will be made! It’s probably the one thing holding me back from making the Mando S1 and S2 movies you made into full on replacements of the original. Certainly won’t expect it though.

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Same here. It’s a common issue with all the D+ exclusive content though. A lot of the recordings aren’t perfect quality, and it’s especially noticeable in dark scenes like that firelight scene with Boba and Fennic.

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EddieDean said:

I guess the major question Mando will impose on this edit is “Where in Mando S3 do we get content that feels it could conclude a film?” Because you backtrack from there to the content that needs to be included, and that’ll inform any final decisions regarding the structure of the end of the Mando S2/BoBF content.

Great point Eddie. There’s nothing in S3 so far that even looks remotely like an ending. But the way I’ve been to completely reorder episodes in these first few films, I’m still holding out hope that I’ll be able to do something drastic with the coming 3 episodes.

RogueLeader said:

Just got caught up on Mandalorian and had some general thoughts about tackling season 3.

This may not be necessary for what you might be thinking about right now, but I think there are some tools that could be useful in really transforming season 3 content to fit whatever mold you might have in mind.

Thanks for the input Rogue, I’ll definitely revisit this once I get to S3 material.

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If this ever does happen, my year will be made! It’s probably the one thing holding me back from making the Mando S1 and S2 movies you made into full on replacements of the original. Certainly won’t expect it though.

Some of the scenes in my films are getting upgraded to 4k in v3, but not all. It’s an absolutely brutal task tracing 2+ hours of content frame by frame to match it up exactly to where I made my cuts. At the very least, I know Books 5-7 will all be in 4k, it’s just my older content that I started in 2020 that is lacking in the pristine visual shine.

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Same here. It’s a common issue with all the D+ exclusive content though. A lot of the recordings aren’t perfect quality, and it’s especially noticeable in dark scenes like that firelight scene with Boba and Fennic.

Yes, some of it is unavoidable. There is certainly some really bad banding in BoBF in the night content. But the other part in my first couple films is just from a number of contributing factors when I first started this project a few years back.

Book 2 update: I watched the first draft, made some changes, and have to send it out for another bug review first. There are some massive story changes in here so it was a beast to tackle. I’m aiming for a Monday release. In addition, I have begun storyboard work on my new Book 3. You’ll have a brief Ice World experience that you’ve never seen anywhere else!

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Would love to see your latest release of these, PM’d!

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Sent!

Book 2 is making great progress, but it is an absolute monster of an update. It’s taking a little bit longer to cook. I was hoping to release today, but it’ll be another 1-2 days before I can have it ready.

I have high hopes for the S3 episode tomorrow, I think we will finally get some clarity on which direction the story is going. Though I don’t believe it’ll provide an indication of an ending. I think it’ll start showing some tension between the Mandalorians and Empire though which should start to lead to a way to reverse engineer my films.

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Unfortunately your hopes will likely be dashed as this season is goi g nowhere fast. Aside from the ending there was absolutely no plot development at all, and even the ending itself was absurd. 🤦‍♂️

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yoshif8tures said:

Unfortunately your hopes will likely be dashed as this season is goi g nowhere fast. Aside from the ending there was absolutely no plot development at all, and even the ending itself was absurd. 🤦‍♂️

Yeah… It is looking pretty bleak. I am becoming increasingly worried about what I can do with S3 content at this point. I don’t even know how to storyboard options yet. The other seasons all had good mid-season endpoints where the narrative shifts and it was clear on how to end a film. There is absolutely nothing in S3 that looks like a definitive moment to do that with. I still think I’ll be able to combine BoBF content into some of S3. But there’s nothing to make a full film from in S3 yet to follow it up. I really need the next two episodes to be laser focused perfection. I suppose the main theme of Season 3 is like “The quest to retake Mandalore”, but I don’t even understand that… Retake it from what? It’s a wasteland with no one there. Just go land and start building.

Book 2 is still progressing! I am putting a ton of time into it every day, it’s just taking a long time to sift through it all. This changelog is going to be massive. It will look radically different than the previous iteration. I think I’m on pace to have it out this evening, so keep an eye out for the follow up post here later on with the changelog and release info.

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Great news on Book 2. Can’t wait to watch. Finally got to sit down with Book 1 yesterday. The inclusion of the prison break is excellent. The ending of them walking off to town together was sublime. It really felt like a whole film, albeit the beginning of something much bigger. I can’t wait to see how the next part comes together based on the cut list.

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Thanks for the kind works Evansj! I am very pleased with how much more cinematic these films are feeling with the newest version. Speaking of which…

The Way of Mandalore v3 update

Book 2: The Reckoning out now.

  • Added new Mandalorian Disney “Star Wars” intro

  • There are too many Act 1 story order changes to write in-depth about, so here is the overall new scene order:

Boba escapes Sarlacc --> Fighting monster
Day in Sorgan life + Din entering his room for the first time
Train attacks Tuskens
Continued Din spending time on Sorgan
Boba goes to capture bikes
Din meets Cara
Tuskens attack Train
Bounty Hunter finds Grogu
Boba gifted robes and acceptance
End of Act 1 (~48 minutes): Din flies to Tatooine

  • (As I have repurposed the initial Sorgan “restaurant scene” to be used later in the film, I have edited it accordingly, removing all of the references that make it seem like they just landed.)

  • Boba does not wake up when the Jawas loot his armor. Now he has an actual reason to search the Sarlacc pit.

  • Removed a TON of crappy-looking fast transition wipes.

  • Reordered scenes with Tusken dog growling so that Boba now intimidates it and fixed a bad Disney transition cut.

  • Quickened the search for black melons so that the monster attacks the Rodian sooner.

  • Removed all mentions of the raiders on Sorgan. This planet remains a peaceful refuge until the bounty hunter arrives to haunt Din.

  • Reordered shots of the train approaching the Tusken camp for better visual consistency and urgency in its approach.

  • Created new back and forth between Din and Cara in their first meeting that no longer requires her joining to defeat the raiders.

  • Din now asks the waitress about Cara Dune in a more demanding manner by peppering her with a few questions upfront.

  • Cut a Tusken looking at the reflective mirror signal and then panning over to wait to see the train through the binos. What is the point of the mirror if he can just see the train first anyways…?

  • During the train attack, cut some scenes of tuskens climbing up the sides after Boba’s speeder gets shot. It now appears to be actually damaged instead of still being able to go full speed for a minute while also burning to a crisp.

  • Cut a few shots of combat on top of the train. Just a few were repetitive and poorly choreographed.

  • Cut some sequences of the many armed pilot droid going ham on 10,000 levers. We get it, he can make the train go zoom.

  • Cut a few sequences of the Tusken Chief combat to keep the focus on Boba.

  • Sped up the timing of when a Tusken gets blasted by the tram engine.

  • Made it so the train pilot droid actually does commit suicide. This matches Boba’s confused face.

  • Cut the “tell” scene that a bounty hunter is at the village. Come on, preserve the mood, and surprise us for once!

  • Re-edited the scene where Din talks to the village woman about his future. Without the viewer’s knowledge of the bounty hunter, we are still in “peaceful mode” and perhaps believe that there is a home here for Din and Grogu. The woman does now indeed appear to persuade Din to take his helmet off and stay, but they are interrupted by the bounty hunter which brings him back to reality.

  • Re-ordered the scenes of the bounty hunter’s scope to actually make sense now.

  • As Din and Grogu leave Sorgan, I have repurposed the Greef calls Din offer to be placed here. This keeps the main plot, Din’s conflict with the Empire, at the forefront of the story while also having another bounty hunter surprise them at the last minute right when they are about to jump to Nevarro. Now the consequences of Din’s actions continually haunt him. The damage from the dogfight grounds the team on Tatooine.

  • Removed the hilariously bad death scene of the bounty hunter.

  • Removed the head Pyke stirring his tea. Transition works much better to see Boba close a door and then Din open one.

  • Removed the Tusken encounter with Din in the desert.

  • Re-edited the whole dewback scene. It now plays out quicker and Din only gets shot once. Reduced some of the infantile questions from rookie hunter throughout.

  • Cut Boba feeding his Bantha and some of the Rookie pretending to shoot Din while sleeping.

  • After Fennec shoots Din (again), I cut the scenes of her taking forever to aim at his unmoving body. The Rookie is now on her almost immediately after that first shot to prevent her double tap.

  • Cut all of Fennec and Rookie’s hand-to-hand combat, as well as his incessant moaning for the next minute. She is captured by Rookie and Din peacefully goes over to handcuff her.

  • Cut all of Fennec and Rookie’s morning dialogue and her getting shot. We will stay inside the perspective of Din in these events now. It’s enough to know Din returned from securing the dewback and now Fennec is (seemingly) dead. The drawn-out side-character conversation is quite a distraction in this movie format.

  • Regraded the scene of Din acquiring the Dewback and going back to the hangar from day-to-night. Disney messed up SO badly on the time of day throughout this and Book of Boba. The chronology was wrecked so this is the best solution.

  • Now that we don’t have to see Rookie go through that whole Fennec dialogue, it actually appears that he had some agency in all of these events. He already knew Din had betrayed the guild from the get-go and had been playing dumb to take advantage of Din. This is a proper villain arc and a fun reveal at the end. He still dies though.

  • Re-edited the whole hangar dialogue and action scenes to fit into this new theory.

  • After Din and Grogu fly away to Sorgan, we see Boba collect Fennec and heals her himself. The extent of her previous injury is never shown or discussed, and we are perfectly fine to believe Boba provided the medical care needed to save her life.

  • Inserted the scenes of Boba and Fennec scouting and then acquiring the Slave 1 in an acbagel edited combat sequence to break up Din’s bouncing all over the galaxy to pick up Cara and then Kuiil and then back to Nevarro. The original episode does that all back to back and we desperately need some pacing.

  • Cut the “Let’s go over the plan again” talk at the nevarro campfire. I have never in my life seen a show lay out the entire plan so many times. They do this every other episode and it NEVER adds anything at all. It just spoils the next 20 minutes every time.

  • Cut the two bodyguards super obviously sneaking up on Din and Cara, legit 20 seconds after Din tells her to keep eyes on them. Greef kills them more suddenly now.

  • Re-edited ANOTHER “I have a plan” scene before they just do the whole plan… Preserved some revelations here instead of immediately doing an exposition dump.

  • Gideon arrives and ambushes the crew in one extended sequence. It plays out SO much more terrifying without the whole trying to call Kuiil plot here.

  • Moved the whole scout bikes kill Kuiil to one uninterrupted scene later after the crew is in more of a standstill period during the EWEB setup.

  • In line with the above change, I have completely reworked Moff Gideon’s plan. I never understood his strategy in the original as it was not at all in line with his characterization to attempt a peaceful resolution with Din, especially considering he kills a handful of his soldiers both on screen and off. In my edit, Gideon does not know that the Grogu box is a ploy, so his attempt at a peaceful resolution is due to his not wanting the child to be incidentally harmed. This is why he makes his “until sundown” offer, but when Din attempts to contact Kuiil falsely believing he got away, Kuiil never hears the message at all as it is intercepted leading to Grogu’s capture. The scouts attempt to bring the asset back into town and stop at the checkpoint to confirm.

  • As the scouts stop at the checkpoint, they receive orders from the comm man to “double-check” on the asset because Gideon is already exercising violence against his own men. As they promptly do so, they are very quickly set upon by IG-11 (I hate to cut most of the Scout trooper scene as I enjoy that type of Tarantino-esque dialogue, but it does not fit at all in the pacing of the situation or the storytelling logic). This prevents Gideon from ever learning that the child was acquired, so his motivation for allowing the peaceful resolution offer to continue is still sensible.
    IG comes flying into town making a mess, and I have reordered some reaction shots of the stormtroopers and our protagonists to actually make sense according to the explosion sounds instead of the wonky order in the original episode.

  • Touched up some shot timing with the Flametrooper.

  • Trimmed off some of Din getting healed by IG-11 for better pacing.

  • Cut Din not knowing his way through the tunnels because he “normally enters through the bazaar.” What?? I think that a secret Mandalorian covert would require all of its members to memorize every single inch of those tunnels. This lack of knowledge didn’t even lead anywhere as they almost immediately stumble upon the Mandalorian forge anyways, further demonstrating that Din is a complete moron because he has visited that exact location countless times IN THE SHOW. Now I have presented this segment as if Din is intentionally walking the tunnels looking for where the Mandalorians are instead of aimlessly wandering around being lost.

  • Cut a bunch of repetitive lines out of the Armorer scene and removed IG-11 killing the whole stormtrooper scout party off-screen. That took away the tension of the imminent danger. Now it will appear like the troopers we just saw enter are the ones who end up finding the Armorer.

  • Removed one additional line of Din trying to persuade IG not to explode himself.

  • Removed the stormtroopers lowering their weapons and staring at IG for so long after he reveals the bomb. He now delivers the payload more quickly.

  • Removed the “magic hand thing” joke by reorganizing shots of Gideon’s TIE. I also found a bug from the original show in which Din puts his jetpack on, but then in the next wide shot, he is in the background still holding it in his hands. That is now fixed as I reordered the scenes in which he does put the pack on.

  • Sped up the timing of Gideon’s TIE getting destroyed.

  • Since I am now using Nevarro as a conclusion, I can restore the entirety of the Greef/Din/Cara conversation after the battle.

  • The film now ends back with Boba and Fennec talking about the future.

  • Adjusted Credits concept art to coincide with new story order.

And that’s only about half of the actual changelog…There’s just too much to even continue writing about. There’s a hundred other minor changes I could dump in here, but you all get the point! This film is uploading now so post here if you’d like to watch and I’ll contact you.

I’m heading out for a few days for Easter weekend, but I’ve already got a new Book 3 Act 1 drafted and I will continue production on that starting Monday.

(The Force Awakens) Heirs of the Force | A Star Wars Legends Re-edit

(The Last Jedi) Fate of the Jedi | A Star Wars Legends Re-edit

(The Rise of Skywalker) Legacy of the Force | A Star Wars Legends Re-edit

(The Bad Batch) Cinematic Version | A More Mature Edit

(The Mandalorian+Boba) The Way of Mandalore | A Compilation Edit

(Kenobi) | A Star Wars Legends Re-edit

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I sent a PM then realized you said to post here. Very excited to see where you go next!

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I would also like a link for Book 2 as well.

Your Book 1 was an excellent improvement over the previous version, which was also very good in its own right. Wonderful work done here.

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I’d love a link as well, your work with Book 1 was top-notch!

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Would like a new link please!

“You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view” — Obi-Wan Kenobi