Just jumping in to say that your work is highly appreciated.
Thanks! Really happy with how this one is turning out, ended up doing a lot more than I initially planned for it but it’s looking really good.
Putting the finishing touches on it right now, completed the Mando’a and only have the final 10 minutes to review, so looking at dropping the final Book 2 update tomorrow! Here’s the next section of the changelog:
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Brand New 4 minute long Nevarro sequence for lava flats, removed previous abruptness for getting into town. In addition to not liking that transition, I also didn’t like how this cut out the line where Greef tells them there will only be 4 stormtroopers because the characters reference that multiple times later. Also, I thought hiding so much of Kuill’s early involvement made it kind of confusing when suddenly he’s rushing away with Grogu when Gideon attacks. So all in all I’ve restored a few altered minutes of context providing scenes and made some trims to Tatooine segments to save the time.
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Trim down initial train attack on Tuskens where Boba is standing around not in cover like a doofus waiting for his head to get blown off.
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Cut a few scenes out of train raid, mostly all the Boba confusion and hesitancy. Don’t understand why his fight in the bar is so definitive and in character and then other times the choreography makes him look like a bumbling noob.
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Rearranged and trimmed some of Boba’s convo with the Pyke leader to remove his seeming softness.
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Cut a few scenes out of Slave 1 recapture. Too much canon fodder without any danger presented, and it looks a lot more badass with Boba and Fennec working in sync without much talking and whining anymore. Two seasoned warriors, some of the best in galaxy, instantly with chemistry and working in tandem without having to speak basic info. Also trimmed some of their talk inside the cockpit, again, they don’t need to constantly say the basics, they just understand each other.
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Trimmed a few lines out of Fennec manipulating Rookie, repeated info that bloated the scene length
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Cut Moff Gideon offering to wait until sundown, doesn’t seem in character or wise to delay so long without a real reason. He makes his demands, then gives them a couple minutes to think rather than seemingly giving them an hour. I get it, “the sun sets fast on Nevarro” from a previous episode, but it doesn’t feel like that to the audience because we’ve been on Nevarro a lot already and we’ve never seen that happen visually. The sun seems to set here at a pace just like anywhere else so I don’t think the director’s intent landed here.
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Mando’a! In the sewers with the Armorer, whole new scene of dialogue, conversation, soundtrack, and meaning. Don’t want to spoil, enjoy!