THE NEW VERSION OF ‘THE CURSE OF VECNA’ IS NOW AVAILABLE.
I’ve also added new English subtitles and updated the list in the first comment with all the new changes and additions.
Also, I decided to remove the alternative cut of ‘The Mind Lair (The Trooper’s Cut)’ from my collection to free up some space on my Google drive. However, you can still find ‘The Trooper’ scene on my yt channel:
https://youtu.be/AHtsSjVvBRk?si=3nCssapdmSDYTMX6
Speaking of alternative cuts, I am also considering scrapping ‘The Neverending Story Cut’ of Stranger Things 3 and replacing the ‘canon’ version with a new one that includes this alternative scene of Suzie:
https://youtu.be/tJH1P6lWypE?si=AO8QScs5efHTDI0N
I’m going to sleep on it and come back to it in the future.
EDIT:
A couple of days later and I think I have come up with another way to scrap my alternate cut of Stranger Things 3 and at the same time fix an important problem in the ‘canon’ cut regarding Suzie.
So my problem with the Neverending Story scene was always that it kind of disrupted the pace and momentum of the Season 3 finale. However, the complete removal of that scene raises a serious question about the overall story of the film and Dustin’s character: Is Suzie even real? Has Dustin been lying to his friends all this time?
Hence the need for an alternative cut, which I am trying to remove from my collection.
By including the above alternative scene in the film, Suzie is legitimised as a character and the singing part is no longer a problem, but the aforementioned pacing disruption remains a problem. So I came up with the idea of re-porpusing Dustin and Suzie’s scene from the first episode of Season 4 as the ultimate reveal of Suzie’s character as part of the finale of Stranger Things 3, like this:
https://streamable.com/64qg2h
Does this change solve the problem I mentioned above? I think it does, but it also creates a new one. Dustin looks a little older than the rest of the film, which I suppose is something that can happen with young actors and could be justified by the three month time jump. He is also wearing the same outfit as in Stranger Things 4 beginning (his Hellfire Club t-shirt is mostly hidden), but I think this is just a small continuity error.
Ultimately, fanediting is about trying to solve larger narrative or structural problems while letting the smaller ones go.