This is a final, workable movie pulled out of what feels like a mismanaged and confused project. Couple of thoughts:
-Sol’s narrative is specific and yet loose at the same time, and the final climactic scene with him works and doesn’t work. He wants absolution and forgiveness so bad he will help start his padawan down the path to the dark side? Obviously this is a failing of the source material, but you’ve done a great job centering the narrative around him
-I think you lean into the narrative idea that all 4 Jedi feel guilty about what happened with the Coven and with Mae, but once we get to the scene that shows the storming of the coven it kind of just falls flat. We’re supposed to go from hunting pacifist Jedi to watching them be murderers but it never quite gets to that part. I wonder if displaying these events more chronologically would give more weight to what Mae is doing and her turn from the dark side but this is also the story that was produced. Sol is the ultimate villain, everyone else was just collateral damage.
-You mentioned an upscaled version, I would be interested in that. The video quality is good, about 7-8/10, but this series uses haze and smoke a lot and I found the bitrate struggling with those effects at times, especially early in the video.
Thank you so much for having taking the time to share your thoughts here! You’re right about the failings of the source material, and that’s why I didn’t want to lean too much on Mae’s motivational arc VS Osha, which in the series doesn’t work at all… I mean, when sol is killed force choked… After that the sisters crying in each other’s arm falls flat for me… I didn’t care for them, I just wanted it to be finished, but it still takes 12-15 minutes before the credits roll! So yes, Sol motivations are still blurry but he is convinced until the very end that he did the right thing… And that is what mainly informed my proposition with the tagline “Noble intentions with dire consequences” He is not bad, he sincerely thought the girls were in danger, then they defended themselve against Korril… and the mysty Mother… It is all circumstantial events one after another, culmulating into a mess! And I think that, we all kinda experienced that sort of situation, as human being, at least once in our lives… Where I found it difficult, was to attenuate the feeling that Sol could have told Osha what really happen earlier… We often found him telling Osha “I’ll explain” “I’ll explain” “when we get to the ship I’ll explain”. Damn… So I cut down those moments to the minimum…
Overall you’ve done a great job, your editing made this series watchable. The length of the series is just so silly considering the story that they are telling.
Yep too long, it should have been a movie in the first place!!
Thanks again!!!