I’ve just finished watching this edit, and I’ll admit the climax had me a little misty eyed (that didn’t happen when I watched the original Season 3). Thank you so much, you’ve really created a magnificent and seamless well-paced movie out of something that was previously rather overlong, unfocused and clunky.
You’ve got a great sense for editing, and the only notes I’d have would be to perhaps consider removing the somewhat redundant conversation between Peli and the Rodian (just cut straight to Mando touching down in the hangar) and as others have said to clean up the technical issue with the crawl background.
Every choice you’ve made has worked in this edit, and I watched it with my wife (who hadn’t seen any of Season 3) and it completely worked for her too. You would not know this was a fanedit.
(And you were right about the comedic transition with Grogu’s ‘yes, yes, yes’ into the campfire scene too - very effective!).
100% recommend - to anyone who was a little disappointed about The Mandalorian Season 3’s dip in quality, smudger9 has redeemed it - you need to watch this!
Thanks so much for the feedback Matt. Much appreciated. It makes it all worth while when other fans enjoy these edits.
The crawl background glitch will be rectified, I’m just waiting to see if anyone picks up any other technical issues before re-rendering and uploading.
Regarding the Rhodian-Pelli conversation, yes it’s completely redundant but it’s there for 2 reasons.
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I really like having spacer scenes to imply time passage and avoid having excessive wipe transitions. I didn’t want to cut straight from Mando in hyperspace to him arriving on Tatooine.
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It’s a nice reintroduction to Pelli, and we can see that she’s still up to her old tricks.
I did trim the scene, leaving the minimum that I could get away with.