smudger9 said:

Josanael said:

I’m surprised that there aren’t any reviews of Episode 3 yet, because … it’s absolutely brilliant again! The pacing in the first half in particular feels much better than in the original episodes. 😃 We, as viewers, are now staying tuned on all the storylines, and the connection between the wedding and the events on Mina-Rau in particular creates a very nice contrast. Personally, I didn’t miss the scenes on Yavin at all. And I also found the time jumps to be hardly noticeable. The kind of mentioning of the time jumps felt unneccessary in the original to me when viewing it at first. But your edit really shows that viewers hardly question the different passing of time when the scenes are edited together appropriately. It just feels like a very well-rounded movie — very well done! 😃

A few things caught my attention, but these are really just minor details:

09:19: Krennic’s voice is a tad too quiet in the first sentence (‘Gorman is of great interest to the empire’).

24:40: The music piece that starts when Mon walks off feels a bit cut off. The transition to the next song (24:50) is great in itself, but the piece before that feels somehow incomplete.

25:52: Here the music from the wedding party feels cut off again, for my taste it’s a bit too abrupt.

27:00: Is there any chance to stretch Cassian’s scene in the TIE? It feels to me like it would benefit from more breathing room to really grasp as an audience what happens here, since we haven’t seen him for a while.

47:30: The here mentioned ‘freighter’ is news to the audience, if I hadn’t miss anything. I’m not sure what a solution for this could be, but it somehow caught me off guard, since Cassian was only flying the TIE up to this point.

1:07:17: Not something specific, but the chapter ‘Noble Sacrifice’ had too much back and forth from the wedding to the imperial investigation on Mina-Rau. Especially the last bit with Cassian and Bix could have gone longer for my taste. In addition to that I felt like the imperials were a little less intimating without Bix’s encounters with them before.

1:34:12 Bix’s mentioning of the boy Cassian killed, because he had seen her face, feels a bit off, since we never saw the nightmare of her before. This was a bit jarring in the original episode as well, but here the audience lacks even more information about that incident.

2:48:13 Is it possible to stay a little longer at the rebels on Ghorman? For the kind of loss we just saw, my feeling was, that the scene needs more breathing room.

Thanks so much for the feedback.

I’ve upped the volume on Krennik’s vocal.

The music that starts as Mon walks off isn’t an edit, it’s as it was in the series. It may be slightly jarring because I’ve then cut in a different scene. I’ve altered it so that the music playing during Mon and Kolma’s conversation continues as she walks off.

I’ve modified the slightly abrupt music cut by trimming a few frames which brings the music from the TIE scene forward slightly, thus smoothing out the transition.

Cassian in the TIE is the full scene, so no option to extend it.

I took it as the “freighter” being code for the TIE itself.

I’ll try to swap two of the noble sacrifice scenes around to get rid of 2 location transitions.

Yes the Imperials are a little less intimidating, but that is the style is was going for having removed the Bix scenes. They are now presented as more of an encroaching off-screen threat.

It’s difficult to remove reference to the boy in that scene. I’ll take another look at it.

The Ghorman rebels scene has been cut to removed Vel’s lecture, which felt really out of character and not great on the acting front. I’ll see if I can reinstate a tight edit of it.

Correct, no need to remove it. All conversation with kleya and Luthen were done using codes. It is well establish mode of communication.
Too many flipping back and forth. It felt too jarring because the scenes were too short.
Correct, the rape scene had to go. Disney often said Star Wars is for children not grown up old men. Why did they think rape is suitable for children? The mind boggles and doesn’t fit in Star Wars. The same with young Leia torture scenes in Obi Wan series. I removed all that in my edit as child torture is not suitable for children and not Star Wars.
I moved the Dr Gorst and ‘boy’ dream scene before andor and bix go shopping and it worked well. There was a year time jump so what happened to the tie fighter? Don’t know. I don’t think it was ever mentioned again. The dream then shopping then flat conversation about ‘boy’ seeing bix face makes sense. It would imply that the tie fighter was dumped somewhere and the imperial ‘boy’ and others were in a shootout with andor, bix and wilmon and the ‘boy’ had to die because he saw bix’s face and from season 1 bix is already a wanted woman. I am tempted to drop the shopping scene as it slows down pacing.
Longer no way. It needs to be much shorter. shot fired - dead body - vel runs over and reveal cinta is dead - syril through binoculars - isb response team - museum - syril head against wall then overview of vehicle escaping - back to luthen and kleya leaving museum. That’s all. Vel and cinta are minor unimportant characters. Their role in aldhani heist is done. All the men except andor are dead, yet two woman magically survives because kk says so. Season 2 they had nothing. Vel just hang around doing nothing important. Cinta turns up to kill kolma then nothing until ghorman. When a extra or minor character dies, no one makes a fuss about it. The aftermath of cinta death was way too long and i couldn’t give a damn she dead. Movies make a big thing and main important leading character death. Remember after Han solo death, nothing much happened and Han was 1000 times more important than bloody cinta. A lesson here is don’t waste too much time on minor characters death, almost no one cares.