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Post #261881

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Batman Beyond
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Help: looking for... ADM's Star Wars: Episode II.V - The Clone Wars
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18-Dec-2006, 6:20 AM
I have downloaded it, burned it, and... Watched it! So, thats what I think of the re-edit, or rather re-connecting. SPOILERS

Nice touch there with the star system and all... Really great. Overall, it was nice to sit back and watch the entire Clone Wars story from start to finish. However...

I was wondering, considering the other edits ADM has done, that this was rather light-weight in edits. I feel, if anything, that it could've been re-edited a great deal. For instance, it its notable that its the most odd from the rest of the episodes because its undecided until its final hour (ie., when the second volume is presented). There's a whole bunch of unconcetrated action - no real connection between stories and all - that leaves you hunging there.

Also, ADM made a great deal out of Padme being a Queen in his re-edits, and she's a senator here again. I haven't seen his other re-edits, other than EPISODE II: PATH TO THE DARK SIDE (which, BTW, improved the love story a great deal) , but since Shaak-Ti's fate is linked with his EPISODE III re-edit, why not eliminate the lines that say Senator? It bugs me as of the decision for that.

And if anything, with that great new title crawl, Yoda's "Like fire, across the galaxy" talk, had to be eliminated. It just seemed too tacky and not really something you'd expect to see in a Star Wars film.

Otherwise, I enjoyed the re-edit. I wish Lucas had made TPM as a prologue, then AOTC as an Episode I, and something like this could've been Episode II. It fits story-wise with ROTS quite nicely. However, I do wish ADM has another go with it, so re-order some sequences and events more clearly and so on, to make it feel more like the traditional SW film.

Anyway, GREAT job, ADM. Thank you for the time you put on the project.