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Post #656330

Author
L8wrtr
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SW EP 1: Shadow of the Sith - by L8wrtr (Released)
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Date created
25-Aug-2013, 3:26 PM

Hello Jair,

The formal release details of all three can be found at Fanedit.org's IFDB, links for each edit:

Shadow of the Sith

The Republic Divided

Dawn of the Empire

All three edits are now available in HD (BD and AVCHD) and follow the same over-riding principles set down in my first edit in terms of tightening the pacing, micro-editing scenes to improve dialog/character impressions etc...

Episode Two is probably my favorite edit in terms of degree of improvement, turning something that is painful to watch and making it tolerable, and to some, even enjoyable!. The primary focus of it was two-fold: First, improve the relationships between the main players; making it believable that Anakin and Obi-Wan were friends rather than treating each other like a bunch of douchebags, and making Anakin someone that Padme could conceivably fall in love with. Second, since the crux of the film is a love story, I re-aligned the way the story is told and included deleted scenes to make it plausible they fall in love. Additional work was done removing R2 and 3PO from the droid factory entirely (no flying R2!) as well as fairly deep changes to clean up the sloppy and overly-long finale.

Episode Three however is my favorite overall edit. The primary focus of Dawn of the Empire was to above all make Anakin's fall to the Dark Side not only believable but make you feel sympathy for him, that perhaps given the events around him you could have made the same bad decisions. There are other improvements along the way in terms of pacing and eliminating annoyingly childish droid voices and the more cartoonish elements of the Palpatine an Yoda's fight.