Here it is! I had to summarize a lot of these into just one point or it would be so long it would break the site… but realize when I say “Removed Grogu from Mandalore” that’s like 300+ edits to the visuals and soundtrack. Depending how fast I can bug check and get a little inside feedback, we’re probably within 10 days of release!

Book 5: The Apostate

Added new Mandalorian Disney Star Wars intro
While the D+ timeline is pretty confusing with how long Grogu is with Luke before the BoBF reunion, my series of events can play out with a much more logical chronology. Book 5: The Apostate occurs ~6 months after the conclusion of Book 4: The Way.
New color grading on Ringworld
The film opens with Din back to bounty hunting and looking for his clan. He has reverted to his state of mind pre-Grogu.
Cut Klatoonian, “That doesn’t even look like me!” These alien mask prosthetics aren’t the best and sometimes you can see the human mouth inside and it’s really jarring.
Sped up Din’s reaction to being bit.
Reduced the number of blaster shots Din takes on his back before responding.
Trimmed down the shot length where Din walks away from the Klatoonian facility. It is normally cutting to the BoBF title card here with thundering Boba music so I reworked the soundtrack and visuals.
Cut a bad fade transition in the Armorer talk
Cut Din jumping off the catwalk like a clown while training with the Darksaber.
Sped up some of the Armorer’s attacks on Din during training so he doesn’t seem as incompetent.
Reduced the time that Vizla spends mindlessly looking at the vibroblade Din cuts in half during their duel. Very awkward pause in combat.
When Din is banished, I have integrated dialogue from their S3E01 talk so that Din has a clearer picture of how he needs to restore himself. He is also the one who now suggests how he can be redeemed, showing that he has knowledge of The Way.
Cut transport announcer saying they’re flying to Tatooine because in mine they’re about to head to Nevarro.
Split up Din’s traveling inside the shuttle into two parts, using the first half now and the second half on his way to Tatooine later on.
New transition for shuttle flying to Nevarro and dropping Din off there.
Grogu is entirely removed from this planet. (S3E01 content)
New color grading for Nevarro
We don’t yet know why exactly Din travels here, but he is quickly set upon by Greef who has all sorts of offers and plans for Din. So Din gets dragged around for a bit listening to Greef’s pitches before the Pirates show up.
Re-edited the Pirate stand-off so that Greef fires faster to disarm the main one, and also so Din is the one who later kills all 4 of the other guards to further strengthen their grudge against Din specifically.
Finally, Greef gives Din a moment to tell him why he’s here, and Din explains that he wants IG back. Greef tells him that’s impossible, but Din tries anyway. However, this effort bears no fruit and after all the effort Din is told that he needs to get a different droid.
To bridge the gap in Din’s journey from Nevarro to Tatooine, we cut to the Armorer swearing in Vizla’s kid into The Way, this also helps establish that the clan has left the Ring World and is now onto the Rock World (which we will visit later in the film).
Cut some Pelli and Womp Rat nonsense.
Though it is a great sequence in and of itself, I had to trim over half of the building N1 scene. It just annihilates the pacing, and so I’ve cut it to what is needed to communicate the theme of Din taking pride and ownership in something new.
Cut out a few lines during the N1 flight test to help with pacing.
As Din takes the N1 into space during the test flight, he is “pulled over” by the New Republic, but right after he escapes them he is set upon by the pirates from Nevarro who are looking to take revenge on him for killing their men.
There were SO many VFX bugs in this dogfight… I have fixed everything I could find. From doubled-up frames, explosion lighting coming from the wrong side of the cockpit after blowing something up, blaster fire inconsistency, impossible sequences of events chronologically, ships teleporting all over the place with no real geographical placement etc. Whew. Hopefully, the fight plays out in a way that entertains and you don’t notice all the cover-ups I had to do.
I have merged the events of Din’s BoBF test flight with the S3E02 landing to get R5 so that these two scenes all play out in one sequence.
After Din gets R5, he heads to the Mandalore system to begin his journey toward redemption. Knowing that Bo-Katan is in her old world of Kalevala, he stops there first to attempt to recruit her help.
Removed Grogu from Kalevala with VFX
After Bo declines Din’s request, he is forced to go to Mandalore alone with R5.
Removed Grogu from Mandalore with VFX
Color-graded Mandalore to look more lifeless.
Din searches through Mandalore Mines all by himself until he is captured by the cyborg.
Fixed the cyborg’s initial capture of Din. In the original, there are a TON of repeated frames across two different camera angles. I hate that. Now he only gets grabbed once.
Added a few new wipe transitions throughout the mines to cover up old Grogu scenes.
Removed Din groaning like he suffered a life-threatening wound after being captured.
As Din is stuck in the trap, added voice lines from S3E08 where he says “R5, come in R5. I need you, buddy.” This prompts R5 to take off and fly back to Kalevala to get Bo to help.
R5 goes back to Bo alone and she loads him up in her ship and goes to rescue Din.
Removed Grogu from Bo’s journey on Mandalore with VFX
Reordered Bo’s reaction shots to seeing Mandalore’s wreckage during her descent. The original had a glaring bug with her head position snapping instantly between frames, clearly combining two shots that weren’t supposed to go together.
Reordered shots so that the ship lands, then R5 plugs in to monitor, then Bo leaves. Better logical sequence of events and paces her departure.
Extended the time Bo looks at the ruined city in the Mines, and then altered the timing in which she puts her helmet pack on. She seemingly realizes she doesn’t have time to reminisce and needs to get to business.
Rescored Bo’s walk through the mines.
Removed the weird pause before the ceiling collapses when Bo shoots down the mine monsters.
Increased the speed in which the monsters attack Bo rather than her missing 5 shots at point-blank range.
Removed the long shot where Bo shoots the rope to grab the Darksaber but doesn’t pull it back. Now she retrieves it in one fluid motion.
Cut the tell of the cyborg head not being dead. Din is less injured here and isn’t struggling so badly to speak so I don’t need that extra time anyways.
After Bo destroys the crab machine, she goes to get Din out as he fades into unconsciousness from the blood loss.
As Bo pulls Din away, we fade back to Nevarro to see the Pirates begin their invasion.
After Nevarro is bombed, Din wakes up with Bo at the fire.
Extended a shot of Bo looking at Din as she is touched by his kind gesture.
After Bo saves Din from drowning and he is unconscious… again… We cut to Adelphi base to progress the Pirate plot.
Rescored Din waking up and Bo leaving the Mines.
Din and Bo now get ambushed quicker, mid-conversation on their flight back to Kalevala. Altered voiceline order and timing.
Right from Din and Bo jumping to Rock World, we get Teva jumping out of hyperspace to Coruscant.
Cut Teva “Okay Okay…” not great delivery, and better for his character to not concede.
After Coruscant, we’re back to Bo and Din landing on Rock World (I’m really upset this planet isn’t named… I hate calling it that)
Removed Grogu from Rock World with VFX
Bo-Katan gets accepted into the clan and immediately goes to get her new signet [credit Smudger]
Teva arrives in his X-wing right after Bo gets her pauldron
Cut Din telling Bo “it’s up to them now” because that is beyond obvious.
Altered dozens of voicelines and event orders around the planning Nevarro battle. Changed Bo’s order of the briefing, cut out another “tell the whole plan before doing the plan” segment.
Fixed some super awkward pacing jumps in the Nevarro battle. Reordered dozens of scenes in order to keep the pace moving smoothly. Typical Acbagel combat fixes that are far too numerous to write down. I’ll let you experience this battle fresh without going into intricate detail!
After Nevarro is saved and Bo is announced to be the one who will reunite the Clans, Din jumps to go visit Grogu. He is now redeemed, and there is presumably some down time before he will join Bo on her journey, so what better time to go do this?
Trimmed a few minutes out of Din wandering around watching the droids and such. Nothing wrong with those scenes, but they don’t really fit in this pacing of this epilogue type of conclusion to the film.
Din waits for Skywalker after R2 shuts off, has his normal conversation with Ahsoka, and we get just the tiniest display of Grogu in training, showing off some new powers. Luke and Ahsoka then talk as we look onto Grogu resting on a rock as I have rescored the ending and… roll credits.
Unified credits storyline order