Whew! That’s a wrap, The Way of Mandalore Book 4 Final Update is released. Ended up doing an insane amount of work on this last one, and I would say it’s some of my best ever. There is a fine line that separates a good show from a great one, and I’ve done everything I can to elevate this film through the little things. Check out the second half of the changelists, and then the film will be available in a few hours!

Fixed the scene order on the Tython battle where I had two imperial transports visible on Din’s binoculars BEFORE the second shuttle had arrived. This was a previous error on my part, but the inconsistency is now gone!
Cut the scene where Din gets shot like 20 times by stormtroopers and is barely phased before Boba arrives. Now as soon as he’s surrounded, Boba drops his bombs.
Recolored Gideon’s Arquitens-class command cruiser blaster bolt that destroys the Razorcrest from Red to Green.
Added Din yelling “NO!” when the Darktroopers take Grogu. Felt weird with him staying quiet the whole time.
First off: Tython is in the DEEP CORE. So why is Fennec saying “That can’t be. The OUTER RIM is under the jurisdiction of the New Republic”? Secondly… no, the Outer Rim is not under NR Jurisdiction right now, not even in Disney Canon. And we were JUST on Tatooine where there is no New Republic presence, same with Nevarro, which is also Outer Rim. This line is plain stupid and the director had no idea about the lore of the star wars galaxy. Fennec now says, “That can’t be. The Core Worlds are under the jurisdiction of the New Republic,” which makes sense lore-wise.

Also, the location where they have Tython marked on Din’s map is waaaay up in the outer rim near Plazir 15.

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I have now fixed Tython’s location on Din’s Razorcrest Galaxy Map. DEEP. CORE.

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Oh man… The fight on Morak on top of the juggernaut type vehicle with the locals. I can’t even begin to explain how bad the choreography is and how much work I had to do. I spent almost 4 hours working through this in my livestream. Watch if you want specifics because there are waaaay too many changes to list. TLDW; I acbagel’d it. Blaster shots fixed, TIE’s fixed, gutted the sound to remove the stock SFX they had all over the place, new blaster fire VFX, flipped/cropped tons of shots that were inconsistent, made Mayfeld a more active participant by having him shaking the vehicle to throw the locals off the top rather than their obvious stuntman jumps off the side etc.
When Mayfeld uses Boba’s Tusken Cycler rifle to snipe the Rhydonium, it doesn’t make the correct blaster sound effect AND they don’t even make a blaster bolt VFX come out of it to hit the tank. The vehicle literally just explodes all by itself, and it’s not even a far away camera shot, it’s a close up, no blaster bolt ever is shown and it just explodes. Fixed it all. New sound, new muzzle blast, new blaster bolt that flies and makes impact leading to the explosion. BOOM.
On Lafete in the cantina where Din and Boba meet Bo, cut the exposition lines as Bo says “the darksaber can cut through anything” and her posse smirks and go “ALMOST anything” and Bo goes “It cannot cut through… BESKAR.” Very bad deliveries and super on the nose, it’s 4 mandalorians explaining the basic properties of beskar to each other for the sake of the audience. Unnatural.
Replaced Din’s holo-call threat to Moff Gideon with a different one… I HATE that it’s a word for word copy of Gideon’s speech. How tf did Din memorize that thing perfectly in the moment? I wish I could cut the whole scene in favor of something else, but there is a lot of plot that happens offscreen in between episodes and I have nothing else to pace this section with. Unfortunately, there is a deleted scene with Boba on Nevarro that Disney has never released… Wish I had it for here.
Readded the scene where Din goes to Nevarro for Cara Dune before getting Mayfeld, can’t even remember why I cut that in the first place, and looking at the galactic map, it makes sense so it’s back in. It fits in better AFTER the Grogu on Gideon’s ship scene though, helps pace the ship travel better.
Goodbye Dark Trooper Dubstep theme. Hello Dark Forces Dark Trooper Theme.
Massive combat re-edits for Din’s 1v1 duel with the Dark Trooper. The original is chock full of inconsistencies. And his Spear materializes out of thin air into his hands like he just hit “i” on his keyboard and equipped from inventory. Seriously, watch it on D+, it’s literally not in his hands or anywhere near him and then POOF he has it in the next frame. They were trying to combine multiple takes here I guess but that’s a bad one to merge if you have to CGI a spear in between frames. Also, Din has a vibroblade laying on the ground so they cut parts of this fight in Post too, just sloppy sequence all around.
Covered up many instances of stormtroopers getting shot and dying but no scorch marks are shown. Still some I couldn’t get fixed though.
Cut Cara Dune’s “Dank Ferrik, son of a MUD SCUFFER!” Baaaad delivery.
Rearranged or cut some of Moff Gideon’s explanation about the darksaber rules. I want to make it seem like Din knows the rules already, but just wasn’t thinking about them because his mind was elsewhere rather than like he’s just hearing them for the very first time. To him, this blade should be legend that he knows of but maybe even always thought was a myth. Added some lines from Din to show he simply doesn’t care about the “rules”, he just wants to get on with things for Grogu’s sake. This is part of his character arc to being more of a father to Grogu than a principled Mando.
Added a Cara Dune smirking shot after Bo-Katan first sees Luke on the cams and says “A jedi…?” Always thought it was strange that she showed no recognition of Luke. This now makes it seem like SHE knows she’s saved while everyone else is confused. Works really well and 100% Cara should know about Luke Skywalker at this point in the timeline as a lifelong Rebel Dropper and now New Republic Marshall. Now cutting back to Moff Gideon’s terrified face right after because HE knows too is chef’s kiss of a back and forth reaction to presence of the GRANDMASTER.
Touched up a couple clunky shots of Luke fighting DarkTroopers
Sped up Moff Gideon’s attempt to shoot Bo-Katan and transition to Grogu
Completely rebuilt the scene after Luke kills the DarkTroopers in the hallway and enters the room. I have no idea why they’re all acting like Luke is a Sith Lord here pointing their blasters at him, ESPECIALLY Cara lol. Wtf is that? Fennec’s line of “Are you crazy?” to Din is the only one that makes sense because I understand why SHE would be scared of a Jedi. But Cara…? No. Changed Din’s line from “Open the doors” to “Put your weapons down,” because he is clearly the one walking to the button to open the doors as he says this and made sensible reactions for each character.
Mapped the Jarkan Deepfake VFX onto the Shamook one for majorly improved Luke face! Huge credit to both of those guys for their initial work, and the combination of them looks the best I’ve seen of this version of Luke.
When Din takes his helmet off for Grogu it’s in his right hand, but then instantly the next frame it’s just on the ground, then next frame it’s still on the ground but facing the complete opposite direction… then later in the scene it’s in a different place facing a DIFFERENT direction… fixed all so that inconsistencies are gone. It should now appear that it’s in his right hand the entire time.

Enjoy, everyone! Book 5… Coming Very Soon.