Smudger9's Bad Batch Movie Series [EP1 & EP2 RELEASED; EP3 WIP] — Page 6

Smudger, I just wanted to thank you for all the work you put in. If I have it correct, you have completed TV to movie edits of all the Star Wars shows except Clone Wars and Rebels, which are both in good hands as well.

Job well done.

Watched the first movie as a first-timer and here is my review (or rather my comments):
First of all it was a superb edit. I told myself I’m watch it in 20-30 min parts but the next thing I knew, I was 2 hrs in. Even I could tell this was an expert edit so job well done!

Here’s the some stuff I noticed missing while watching this:

• It wasn’t shown what kinda trial clone force 99 was put on and it jumps straight to Tarkin complimenting them. Not that big of a deal compared to my next 2 comments and I can guess it was too much to fit in but I’ll leave it here as a note.

• weirdly fast transition from bad batch’s ship to the officer guy instantly conversing to Tarkin around 1:00:00.

• Gregor just vanished after getting rescued 😦
  Update: i skimmed through the show and apparently it’s the same there?! 😮

Thanks again for your edit and thanks for the effort you invested in this series! Hope I can watch the 2nd movie soon and comment on that too, if it’s welcome ofc 😄

smudger9 said:

Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated.

The scenes and dialogue around the Kamino trial was something I was never 100% happy with. I cut the trial for timing and pacing issues. However, the original edit was done before AI dialogue was a thing for us amateurs. Now that I have (just this minute!) completed episode 3 I’m going to spend a couple of weeks going back through the first 2 episodes to tighten them up and release the final versions as a completed trilogy. AI dialogue will hopefully improve that sequence.

The whole Gregor episode was a bit of an annoyance. I really didn’t want to include it because it was a side quest, however, Hunter’s capture is a major plot point so it had to be included.

I’ve just looked at that sharp cut you referenced. I have an easy fix for that now that I can use a bit of AI dialogue, which will allow we to slightly extend the scene on the Marauder.

Let me know what you think of episode 2 once you’ve viewed it.

I appreciate the response. Thats’ great news about Episode 3’s progress now that I’ve just watched episode 2!

regarding the 1st movie:
AI dialogue sounds like a legit good idea for perfecting the fan editions. For the kamino trial you can likely remove the clone trooper mentioning the trial and just telling the batch that Tarkin requested to see them.

Another note to add is Omega and Wrecker walking out of the bar at 1:06:20. At first glance I thought you put it there as a clue for Omega going back to Cid’s room to pick up the Dathomir bowcaster thingie but on the second glance it was clear that she already has it and that she is heading outside.

Also after peeking at the show it seemed like omega met Fennec before she was kidnapped by Bane. just wanted to say your cut was seamless cuz it didn’t seem like they met before in your version.

regarding the 2nd movie:
As my first time viewing this season of the show, there’s not much to say, meaning how well done your edit is. The plot’s quality was definitely lacking compared to 1st movie because it didn’t grab my attention much and I watched it over 3 sessions.

• My only note is the treasure compass subplot (i don’t know if it’s something the creators left for the 3rd season). Wrecker just mentions they’re tired of waiting for Phee and they just forget about it. Same can be said for the Dooku castle subplot.
• oh and another thing, Cid’s threatening transmission at 1:13:40 and why the Batch decide not to respond to her doesn’t seem well established. As a suggestion maybe at a previous point you can also use an AI dialogue to mention they’re ditching Cid and she’s gonna be mad or something. It would also make more sense on why she sold them out to the empire later.

thanks again for the great cut ❤️ Can’t wait to view the 3rd one. I’m sure it will be top notch.

I watched the 3rd movie too. Once again thank you for your amazing cut and the efforts you poured into this project and thank you for saving me the trouble of going through the fillers and the immature bits within the original content. 😄

Please note that these are just comments on my first time watching this content. I have no intention of underappreciating what you have done with your edit, which will remain my go-to when I wanna revisit the series. The majority of my notes are likely my issues with original writing of the show. :3

• English is not my primary language. I assume you wanted to use “shadowy” in the opening crawl as a reference to the title you’ve chosen for your movie. Though it could be only my opinion but I think it throws off the tone.

• I totally see what you had to do with showing Omega helping the killer hound. That being said, short hair Omega jumping to longer hair Omega jumping to short hair Omega again felt a tad confusing.
  As a suggestion maybe you can just remove the scene of [longer hair] Omega attempting to heal the beast’s wound. It would still make sense that the beast is helping Omega escape as payback for being set free.

• Eremie changing sides felt unbelievable, makes me wonder if there’s more to her reasoning that wasn’t shown.

• To me it seemed weird that Omega kept mentioning they’ll get help from Hunter and Wrecker but no mention of Echo. As if she knew he wasn’t with them at that time. At this point I guess I’ll just get used to Echo not being a permanent memeber of the batch cuz he disappears later too lol.

• Any chance you’d be able to upload smaller ones if you update your movies in the future? I do encode the files on my end but they take forever to download.

MTFBWY 😉