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The extra version of ‘A New Hope’ was a very simple and straightforward edit I did around the same time as my usual 1997 edit in December of 2022, and the extra version of ‘The Phantom Menace’ was done in March of this year.
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Both of these extra pieces of content do add something good to the existing story in my opinion, especially when you rewatch them now with the extra context of stories that were released afterwards that help to augment things.
I decided to add a little companion piece to the latter film where I added my edit of the first two Dooku episodes of ‘Tales of The Jedi’ from October 2022, so the whole extra story with Dooku is there.
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Episode IV: “A New Hope”, SC38 Reimagined – 2hrs6mins. My 1997 Special Edition version of ANH with the “FXitinPost” video available on YouTube implemented into the Death Star duel between Old Ben and Darth Vader at the 1:29:34 mark. This always felt better as it’s more like two old ‘warriors’ fighting instead of two random old dudes – and they’ve actually kept themselves good and sharp throughout the years like they logically should have done: Old Ben to make sure he’s in a good place to train Luke, and maybe Leia, properly in the first place – and Vader making sure he stays useful and remains in Palpatine’s favour despite the many hindrances from Mustafar and his suit for 20 years, so he isn’t supplanted and cast aside by another Darksider.
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Episode I: “The Phantom Menace”, ToTJ Cut – 2hrs27mins. My Theatrical Cut of TPM with the last Dooku episode of the first season of Tales of The Jedi, “The Sith Lord” implemented in at two parts of the film. Luckily that episode is split into two parts as well, so that’s good and easy.
The first part of the animated episode features Qui-Gon away from Obi-Wan while discussing what he just told the council about what he discovered on Tatooine to Yaddle, so it felt natural to put it after that council meeting. I put it between Padmé and Palpatine at the Senate and Anakin’s test by the council, lasting from the 1:26:06 mark to 1:30:52. The animation starts from the outside of the Jedi temple before going in, and the sequence with Padme is an important plot point – so addressing that first is a good idea – and it taking you away to another location makes segueing back to the Temple exterior very seamless.
The second part of the animated episode deals with Dooku and Yaddle following Qui-Gon’s death on Naboo – but the transition from that death to the next scene in the film has Palpatine on Naboo straight away, so it can’t really go anywhere else. So it goes like: the duel on Naboo and Qui-Gon’s death at 2:06:38 – The duel on Coruscant and Yaddle’s death – Palpatine’s arrival on Naboo where he meets Anakin at 2:16:06 and onwards. Luckily the death of Qui-Gon going right to Dooku and Yaddle immediately talking about the death of Qui-Gon also works very seamlessly, as before.
I was a little concerned about jumping from live action to 3D animation repeatedly throughout the story, but it actually doesn’t jar as much as I thought it did, and the story does feel that much better and richer for it with this little Dooku backoor.
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Tales of The Jedi: “Dooku – The Lost Faith” – 26mins. I decided to incorporate “Justice” and “Choices” together into one story, as they’re both very short apart and they run along the same theme so they feel like they belong together well: Dooku’s growing dissatisfaction with the senate, the Jedi and how those two things mesh together. I did my usual thing of using a time headcanon to help anchor the story, but since the official timeframe hasn’t been added by the source at Lucas, I kind of had to guess.
“Justice” - says ‘between 68BBY and 58BBY’ - Qui-Gon’s voice actor is 27, so that-aged Qui-Gon would make it 53BBY so that fits, and it was at least 42BBY when he was on Mandalore protecting Duchess Satine with Obi-Wan present, and the two of them developing feelings for one another - that fits too. Basing it in 53BBY as an estimate before more specific information comes along to contradict it seems possible and perfectly acceptable.
“Choices” - says ‘between 50BBY and 42BBY’ - it’s before Mace Windu was on the Jedi council so it obviously precedes The Phantom Menace, there’s no specified date regarding Master Katri’s death or that of any others who die in the episode like Senator Larik, so that doesn’t help. Qui-Gon is no longer here - it’s possible he’s taken Obi-Wan as a padawan now and is training him which explains his absence - which canonically began in 44BBY. Basing it in 43BBY meets in the middle of the 42BBY time limit and the 44BBY of Qui-Gon definitely being too busy to still appear at Dooku’s side - as well as being a round 10 years after the assumed time of “Justice” in 53BBY. Therefore, basing it in 43BBY as an estimate before more specific information comes along to contradict it seems possible and perfectly acceptable also, like above.
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Because these are whole films, these are very large again – around the same file size as the original uploads I did before, if not a little longer because of the added extra content of course. Aside from the ToTJ companion piece, the films are around 10GB and 20GB apiece again – just something to keep in mind before you try and download them.
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It’s a Mega link like the rest again
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Footnote: I am in no capacity a professional editor or VFX artist, 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.
