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A fairly straightforward project from this February that was mostly a rehash of the second half of my existing ‘Bad Batch’ edit project with a new coat of paint for every second season arc I already did, and the single episodes in between I previously didn’t touch. But this time, I also included some re-tweaking of two arcs specifically, which I will get into below.
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Essentially, very shortly after uploading my ‘Bad Batch’ edits, I found an alternate logo for season 2 that was less the greys and reds of season 1, and more shades of brown with the reds instead. If you’re familiar with my work on The Mandalorian already, then you know that when there are a lot of episodes of a show released, I like to differentiate and compartmentalise the seasons by their respective colours – so this was in a similar vein to that.
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As for the episode text, I tried going for the most common shade of brown in the new logo for it, but this turned out to be too light, and was very similar to the text in ‘Tales of The Jedi’ that use the same font in a tan/beige colour. Conversely, if I tried avoiding this as much as possible by going for the darkest shade in the alternate logo, it blended into the black background a little too well, especially when viewing at a distance, like across the room. So I went for a shade of brown that was more in the middle between the two, and hopefully it works well in both ways here.
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As for the arcs I changed, it’s the middle two of the second season, for actually the same reasons. The two episodes centring on the Clone Underground on Coruscant, and the two centring on the Ipsium Mine on the planet ‘Ipsidon’ both work very well as dedicated two-parters, but also have one episode each that could also be lumped in with it – feasibly, but ultimately tangentially.
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The episode “Tribe” precedes the Coruscant duo with no other episodes between them, and when we see Omega for the first time, she’s meditating in the Marauder with Gungi and ‘Tribe’’s events mentioned. That means there’s a link there to thread them together with – but because it’s quite loose, it might not be worth keeping them as a dedicated three-episode arc, so I’ve done both so you can decide what works best for you and your collection. I’ve put ‘Tribe’ up with the new logo on its own, ‘Truths and Conspiracies’ as a Coruscant two-parter with the new logo, and the entire arc as a three-parter with the old AND new logo and episode text colours as well – do what works for YOU.
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Secondly, the first time round I included “Metamorphosis” with the Ipsium Mine duo of episodes, because I always felt it leads into the Zillo episode reasonably neatly as it is. But MTMR is a fairly strong episode on its own, I’ll admit, so this might not be the opinion of everyone. To this end, I’ve reuploaded the extended three-part arc with the brown logo, as well as MTMR on its own and the shortened duo separately with the alternate style too. Again, you do what works for you and your collection.
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Because of the gaps of episodes I missed in season 2 now being taken into consideration, the numbers as they appear in the uploads are now different – but I’ve made sure to keep it clear what is what. All three-part versions of the tweaked arcs are labelled as ‘extended’, the previous season 2 work (and the now re-tweaked arcs) with the original grey logo are denoted as “V1” – and everything with the new brown logo is labelled as “V2”.
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And just a bit of an announcement: Yes, I’m currently doing the Season 3 arcs as they come, and yes, I’ll probably do differing logo ones again with how I like to differentiate things.
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Footnote: I am merely a self-taught editor and VFX artist here, so some areas are visibly mostly good as I have to be realistic with the footage in front of me and what I can do with it. If you do have any particular notes and feedback, feel free to give me your thoughts, but please be constructive and don’t be an ass about it.