RELEASED S04M01 - Shadow of Lothal V4

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4K recolor: available
Subtitles: available
S04E02 - The Tie Defender and S04E03 - Assault on the Factory, episode variants: available

Changes

S04E02 / Movie Part 1 -

cut title card
rescored opening to blend well with the traditional crawl and kept it for both versions (episode and movie) as I liked it more than the original score.
cut Ezra’s line “no!” when he has his vision but kept the footage
cut Zeb saying “What is that, clone humour?”
cut Zeb arguing with Vizago about how many times he’s had a TIE fighter escort.
cut the sequence of Chopper making fun of the crew
cut fade to black
- trimmed prior shot so the music could blend together nicely for a smooth transition between shots.
cut Ezra complaining about his younger image being used.
- cut dialogue of Sabines response but kept the shot so she makes them both keep moving.
cut Ezra introducing Jai as for this edit, this is when they’re first meeting.
cut the death troopers talking in basic and replaced it with their normal sound.
cut fade to black
trimmed next shot to help audio flow after previous cut
cut the death trooper talking basic and replaced it with their normal sound (again for the next shot he spoke)
cut Ezra referencing Saw Guerera in the sewers
Fixed the Deathtrooper audio again before he enters the sewers
slowed the ship down in the last scene of the first episode to give me more footage to wipe to the next episode with.
screenshotted and recoloured a sable frame of the Lothal wilderness to use as a wipe destination before the lothcats reappear.
cut Ryder and the rest of the gang talking about the “new” TIE defender and that its strong then the one they previously seen as in my edit this ark was cut.
- as an aside, I’m fine with Mon Mothma having experienced the TIE defender before as she’s a minor character in Rebels but the Ghost crew encountering it should be onscreen. Hence my decision here versus my decision not cutting Mon Mothma’s line earlier.
cut Sabine saying “do you see it now Zeb?”
cut title card
redubbed and drastically cut down the Loth-cat attack on the stormtroopers gag.
cut a bunch of needless shots that setup the ad break and trimmed the shot that pans down to Thrawns transport ship for flow reasons.
cut “are you crazy?” “Don’t just stand their jump!” from between Ezra and Sabine.
cut Ryder and Zeb staying behind to watch the chaos after being ordered to return to base??? no idea why they did this.
cut the stormtroopers chasing the loth-cats (why did we even return to this horrible gag!)
cut Sabine “remembering” the TIE defender has a killswitch… such a stupid oversight and in this edit she never finds that out… until now of course.
cut fade to black
cut establishing shot of the fighter crash site
Swapped the opening sequence of Kanan and Hera with the next sequence with Pryce informing Thrawn of their progress to better blend the two episodes
cut the title crawl
cut “I smell it” - “You smell what” - “I smell Lasat” exchange and just kept Ruhk sniffing.
added in missing sniff sound effects
cut “we’ve checked out this area and we’re reporting, should we continue the search” “no” exchange. too much sniffing not enough action. Ruhk is on a mission and he’s not slowing down even to heighten the tension.
cut Ezra “don’t shoot me, shoot him!” just some needless Ezra sass
cut Ruhk calling Ezra a Jedi as in this edit the Empire is far more clueless about their existence.
cut Jai asking Ezra if they’re being followed and Ezra’s response…
cut Zeb responding to Hera about Ezra and Jai to just cut straight to them.
cut Jai asking how many where following them on the speeder and Ezra giving a nonsense answer with “more than enough”
cut Ruhk telling Pryce he’s got he base coordinates (we can piece this together from the zoom into the tracker)
cut fade to black
cut Ruhk and Pryce bickering on the tank
cut down Ruhk and Pryce bickering again, now Pryce just takes charge before Ruhk can act.
cut fade to black
cut “the empire is bombing the mountains.” yes Ryder, we know that, we can see that!

S04E03 / Movie Part 2 -

cut title card
trimmed watching the trandosian miner listening to music
cut Zeb saying he liked the song
cut slapstick action of the captain escaping Zeb
drastically cut down the absurd conversation over com with mining guild
- Use flowframes to double framerate and half speed of some footage to help with the changes made.
swapped the footage for the trandosian pirate so Zeb knocks him out immediately after he speaks out and resynced the lines to the new visuals.
cut fade to black
cut establishing shot of crawler as it’s not needed now that there is no ad break.
cut sequence showing the trandosian captain being locked away - it just highlights Sabine and Ezra not listening to Kanan, which is weird at this point in the story.
moved Hera’s scene at Yavin 4 forward to fill the whole in the fight choreography made by previous cut.
cut establishing shot of Kanan and Zeb with the freed slaves (no longer needed with the Hera scene moved)
cut ezra coming out and Vizago feeling betrayed, without the break in the battle it was too awkward to get continuity right instead I took a line from Sabine and put it over for scouting the imperial ships. The next few scenes are pretty cut up and audio was rebuilt until you see the ships out of the scope. I don’t know exactly what I did as it took A LOT of tinkering to get the flow right.
cut fade to black
cut scenes of the trandosian captain crawler complaining that Vizago took the captains chair
cut Ezra saying “all we need is that lizard to start flapping his mouth again” and kept the shot of them hiding as much as possible.
cut Vizago “gone? I mean see” the empire would be all over him if you said something like that. Just doesn’t make sense.
cut the entire subplot with the captain of the crawler escaping.
- We now cut from the Empire ships taking off to Ryder arriving at the Crawler.
cut title card
cut Imperial voiced by Filoni questioning Thrawn’s orders.
- This makes Thrawn much more menacing as a Villain because his troops obey him without question.
- As an aside, this change felt more needed considering how many higher up imperials actively disobey Thrawn.
cut fade to black
cut Ruhks response to Thrawn “It will be done grand admiral”
cut shots of Hera and Ruhk looking at each other and the fade to black for flow purposes.
cut title card
cut fade to black
cut establishing shot of the Lothal mountains immediately after fade to black as it’s not needed now that there is no ad break.
cut fade to black
trimmed both the shot before and the shot after to achieve a smooth blend between scenes with the ad break gone.
added the opening scene from S04e11
- Reordered the events having Zeb know about Kanan’s death first and moving the Pryce conversation to second.

Movie only changes:

Added traditional title crawl
- used the music from Empire strikes back’s opening
reframed literally every shot to best fit the new aspect ratio.
reordered scenes from S04e08 to make Hera’s briefing take place sooner and cut out an establishing shot to better blend S04e07 together.
- cut Ryder questioning if Hera made it, we don’t need that reminder as it’s not the start of a new episode.
Added traditional credits
- used the music from Revenge of the Sith

Episode only changes:

cut out the exposition about the transmitter at the start of S04E03 as this is partly covered in the intro text