Thanks for the review, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Really good to hear positive feedback on Retribution - that was a fairly radical idea and a complex patch job but I’m glad you got the intended value add from it.
I see what you mean on Krell’s stunning. The actual technical cut works but the feel of the moments running to it make it a little jarring - it’s not telescoped quite as much as tone changes usually are in TCW. I’ll take that note.
I take your meaning on Citadel. I’m not sure what I have against that arc - I never considered it a standout, but so many people requested it that I clearly am an outlier. I’ll bump it up to the main list like the rest of the recommended episodes, with a ‘?’ for recommended (instead of blank), to give it more prominence and to let the viewer make that choice.
I don’t think I removed any actual force ghost context from Cosmic Force. I really enjoyed that whole arc and remember that when editing it all I really did was reorder some content to make the journey more of a vision quest than Yoda actually travelling physically to hot spots of the force. In fact, checking over my release notes, “all of the key beats are preserved, and any important mystical dialogue from a cut scene has found its way into another natural location.” So I think you’re getting as much context as the original episode has.