Star Wars: Andor – Chapter I, The Reckoning by Movies Remastered (Released)

Star Wars: Andor – Chapter I, The Reckoning by Movies Remastered (Changelist)

Original Runtime: 2:57:32
MR Cut Runtime: 2:25:40
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Unpopular opinion but I couldn’t get through this series. It felt overly bloated and swayed way off track with subplots, to a point where it didn’t feel like a Cassian show at all. It was more like a Syril Karn eats Breakfast with his mother story which baffled me. This edit now focuses on Cassian’s story from the start, cuts out all the fluff and Syril almost completely, creating an incredibly emotional journey with our main protagonist. I may be biased but this is now some of my favorite Star Wars ever made, and that’s coming from someone who said they’d never bother with this series again. This is also now a linear movie trilogy instead of a series….

• Insert Fanedit warning

• Add a new Old Ben Kenobi trailer.

• Insert Intro MR logo

• Add “A Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….”

• Open with first flashback scenes from Kenari. Using these flashback scenes at the start not only opens us up to a more interesting story but gives us background straight away for we become more invested in the characters. Especially why Cassian is looking for his sister.

• While the show says that Kenari is a lost language with translation, I felt the scenes had more weight by giving the kids subtitles, especially as we now hear Cassian’s final words to his sister.

• Add Kenari Sister Subtitles “Kassa!”

• Add Kenari Sister Subtitles “There’s a ship…. Come look!”

• Add Kenari Girl Subtitles “Over there!”

• Add Kenari Cassian Subtitles “I can’t see it”

• Add Kenari Girl Subtitles “Hey, Hey! Over here! Over here!

• Add Kenari other Girl Subtitles “Stop it! Stop it!”

• Add Kenari Sister Subtitles “I’m scared.”

• Insert second flashback scene

• Fix audio transition to blend with scene

• Add Kenari Girl Subtitles “Here, you’ll need these.”

• Add Kenari Cassian Subtitles “You can’t come, You’re too young.”

• Add Kenari Sister Subtitles “But I want to”

• Add Kenari Cassian Subtitles “When you’re older…. I promise”

• Add Kenari other Girl Subtitles “You’ll need this.”

• Add Kenari tribe boy Subtitles “Don’t touch that! It’s not for you.”

• Add Kenari other Girl Subtitles “Hey! It’s everyone’s. Help yourself.”

• Add Kenari Girl Subtitles “We must all stick together.”

• Add Kenari other Girl Subtitles “Help yourself. Pass me my weapon.”

• Insert third flashback scene

• Fix audio transition to blend with scene

• Add Kenari Sister Subtitles “How long will you be gone?”

• Add Kenari Cassian Subtitles “As long as it takes. I’ll come back.”

• Insert forth flashback scene

• Fix audio transitions to blend with the scene and extend musical queue to build tension.

• Insert fifth flashback scene

• Fix audio transition to blend with scene

• Add Kenari other Girl Subtitles “Stay low, and quiet. Wait for my signal.”

• Insert sixth flashback scene

• Fix audio transition to blend with scene

• Add Kenari Cassian Subtitles “Give her space, she needs to breathe.”

• Add Kenari Girl Subtitles “She’s dying!”

• Insert seventh flashback scene

• Fix audio transition to blend with scene

• Insert eighth flashback scene

• Fix audio transition to blend with scene

• Rework audio to suit the scene of Cassian screaming with his back turned.

• Add Andor intro logo

• Add “Chapter I – The Reckoning”

• Fix audio transition leading into logo scene

• Speed up Cassian’s punch by 60%. While this is a nitpick, the punch seems very staged and took me out of the scene. Speeding it up gives it more weight and harder hit.

• Speed up punch sound but maintain pitch

• A whole lot of audio reworking as B enters Cassian’s place.

• Remove Cassian sleeping that would usually go into one of the flashback scenes already used in the intro.

• Shift around both Cassian and B’s dialogue to hide scene removal

• Remove Cassian hitting B. I thought this was unnecessary and change the relationship adding droid abuse to the scene

• Remove random B-roll of Gloves wall. It’s almost like the props team were so proud of their work that they had to slow down the pacing just to marvel at their work.

• Fix score transition to hide above cut scene.

• Remove the intro shot to Morlana One. This whole scene just felt like a huge exposition dump that went on forever!

• Remove Cassian walking into the front door of the garage.

• Remove Timm saying “She’s in the yard” again, this just slowed pacing.

• Add background noise to hide the transition edit above.

• Add transition cut where flashback scene used to be

• Remove the Syril Karn scene. I’ve removed this character from the entire edit from here as I feel he added no weight or direction to the main story.

• Trim down scene with Timm following Bix. This felt like it went on too long and him now losing her quicker shows she is smart.

• Remove shots of Timm looking felt and right and confused. Just having him look one way speeds this scene up and keeps a natural flow.

• Remove the Syril Karn scene. I don’t wanna see the inner workings of the empire fleshed out. Keeping them mysterious is the whole point of being on the dark side.

• Fix score transition leading into Yard scene

• Fix audio transition where flashback scene has been removed for intro.

• Remove outro credits for episode 1

• Remove intro credits for episode 2

• Flashback scene removed for intro

• Cut to the bell ringing dude.

• Remove motion tracked English screen translation. We’ve never seen this in Star Wars before and they literally translate it in the next scene. Fairly pointless, imo.

• Remove the bar scene between Cassian and Bix. We don’t really learn anything here and Timm seeing Cassian touch her arm shouldn’t be enough for him to snitch on Cassian.

• Remove the scene of Timm snitching on Cassian. The audience finding out who it was at this stage spoils any mystery moving forward. Now we find out when Cassian finds out who snitched.

• Remove the Syril Karn scene. Another pointless scene that ruins the mystery.

• Remove shot of Timm looking shady. This now gives the audience too big of a clue who snitched so removing this just shows that he is nervous about seeing Bix after his doubts.

• Remove the Syril Karn scene. More pointless dialogue that makes the show drag.

• Fix transition where flashback scene has been removed.

• Fix audio transition leading into Luthen intro

• Remove the second shot of the Bell tower guy. While he’s awesome, this scene felt oddly paced.

• Fix audio so bell sound now wakes Bix.

• Remove scene between Cassian and B getting com’s. This just feels a little unnecessary and drawn out. We don’t really learn much in this scene, it just feels like filler.

• Fix audio for Maarva shouting “B!”. removing the above scene now has the audience wondering where B is rather than already knowing.

• Fix audio transition to hide where another flashback scene has been removed

• Remove Syril Karn awkward speech scene. Just cut after the filing paperwork comment.

• Remove the transport scene with Luthen talking to old man. While I like this scene, it really draws you out of the suspense now building in this edit.

• Remove the dramatic walking shot of Cassian strutting through the yard. While this was cool for an episode outro, it doesn’t work here.

• Remove dramatic score

• Remove episode 2 outro credits

• Remove episode 3 intro credits

• Fix audio transition to hide remove flashback scene for intro.

• Remove score and Cassian scream from shipyard scene

• Add Spark, Welding and Electronic SFX to rebuild 5.1 audio in transition

• Remove Syril Karn awkward scene.

• Remove Syril Karn nervous looking scene.

• Fix music transition leading into the scene with B.

• Trim down Syril Karn nervous looking scenes. Why are we on him so much? Emotion feels oddly forced

• Fix audio transition on landing shot.

• Remove Luthen weapon detraction. While this is an awesome look at his weapon, it feels like an oddly placed scene and action.

• Cut to metal yard scene and fix audio transition

• Fix audio transition to hide flashback scene removal

• Remove Syril Karn asking how far? About a 10 minute walk. Random bit of information that drags out the scene.

• Fix audio transition leading into Cassian meeting Luthen.

• Remove Syril Karn shooting up the store and looking for a hiding place.

• Fix score transition into scene with B

• Remove Syril Karn looking awkward again

• Remove episode 3 outro credits

• Remove episode 4 intro credits

• Remove score intro music

• Cut straight to ship pan shot for a jump scare.

• Cut LotR type shot of Vel walking towards the ship

• Remove Vel saying “Obviously there’s something wrong?”

• Remove Luthen’s reply

• Remove Cassian walking out of ship, wide shot to help with transition scene after next cut.

• Remove Syril Karn being reprimanded and fired. His character isn’t important in this edit and no reason for this pointless storyline to continue moving forward.

• Fix score audio transition leading into mountain walk shot.

• Remove Vel saying “They won’t be back today.” No reason to stop the audience anxiety building up with another possible tie fighter flyby, plus I use a Tie sound to cover audio transition later.

• Cut back and forth with Cassian and Vel. Just cut to Cassian looking over his shoulder for the tie fighter.

• Some audio wizardry to remove Cassian and Vel’s dialogue

• Remove scene with Dedra, this is clearly just an episode recap scene put in to allow casual viewers to keep up.

• Fix score transition audio

• Remove Syril Karn going home to his mother. Seriously, Is this actually in a star wars show?

• Use Tie fighter sound for seamless transition

• Remove Vel saying “Ok?.. Alright?” She’s a leader, people should act on her first word without question. Her being unsure at this point shows weakness.

• Remove scene between Dedra and Blevin. This back and forth to the empire just beaks any momentum building with our protagonists.

• Remove outro credits to episode 4

• Remove intro credits to episode 5

• Remove Syril Karn crying scene

• Remove Syril Karn having breakfast with his mother. Honestly, WTF am I watching here?

• Remove scene between Cassian and Arvel. While this is a good scene, removing this pushes that actual edit transitions narrative way harder.

• Remove Mon mothma scene with her stroppy daughter. I want to make her seem more innocent when it comes to the inappropriate proposal for her to marry.

• Cut to Cassian sitting by the fire. This edit now shows that Cassian has sat up all night learning his mission. Showing his dedication to the cause.

• Remove scene with Blevin looking for new office space. This felt like a very odd scene to having after camp.

• Remove Syril Karn eating with his mother again and talking about his uncle. Who cares? This completely pump the breaks on any suspense built up in the previous scenes. Such a pointless character.

• Fix score and add all the delay and reverb for a smooth transition.

• Remove scene with Arvel halfing a knife to Cassian and taking his krystal. Fairly pointless scene that slows down pacing and leads nowhere.

• Fix audio score leading into Mon Mothma scene. Keeping tension high by cutting to this shot.

• Remove another pointless Syril Karn scene.

• Fix score audio transition

• Add Movies Remastered outro credit text.

• Add MR logo to end credits.

• Add MR Disney Saber logo to end credits.

I finally got a chance to watch your Andor 1 last night. Wow! What a difference the narrative pacing makes. Removing all the Syril scenes through Ferrix makes it feel like Cassian is actually the main character. I was getting major spy film vibes throughout the whole film rather than the slow unfocused drip of the show’s original pacing. This is a format that is FAR more rewatchable than the D+ one. Here’s my official review:

Audio/Video Quality: This edit was required to be streamed through Google Drive, so they typical degradation from that process is to be expected, but it presented as a typical 1080p film without any major quality issues. I was not once distracted due to a lack of quality in the A/V department. Maybe I’m getting spoiled by modernity, but ever since getting a 4k monitor and working with 4k footage, 1080p has started to look blurry to me haha. So since Andor does exist in 4k and that would be peak quality, I will rate this category of the edit a 9/10.

Visual Editing: Throughout the entirety of the film I spent many moments going, “Did MR remove a scene here or not?” And that’s a good thing! The majority of new transitions were completely smooth and unnoticeable, making me have to go back to the changelog to see if there was in fact a scene in between. The addition of subtitles to the Kenari flashbacks was incredible, though I did notice a typo which distracted from the moment. There were maybe 3-5 transitions where I could tell that a change had been made due to some visual jarring (the biggest offender IMO was right before the title card), but overall the large majority of the film was top tier visual editing. I score this category a 9/10 as well.

Audio Editing: Similar to the above, 90% of the film had perfect audio editing. The only hiccups I noticed were tied into some of the same transitions as the video ones above, but there were a few more where the video was great but some distracting audio carried over between cuts. Nothing too distracting again, but I probably noticed 6-7 instances of this. This area scores an 8.5/10.

Narrative: Now the meat of any fan edit, especially a TV to Movie format. The general story pacing was nearly perfect. It actually felt like a different source material due to the new overarching story. Whereas D+ Andor sometimes felt like watching a real life simulator where sad boy eats breakfast with mommy, this one actually felt like a real, mature Star Wars meets Spy Thriller genre. The slow drip of the revelation of this growing Rebel Alliance was my favorite part. Cassian’s character development was incredibly focused and felt very cinema-esque. Removing some of the lengthy Ferrix segments of side characters was a great choice, and all three of those side characters were done to perfection, especially the bit with hiding who is the rat. Even down to the nitty gritty of Bix’s boyfriend losing her in the alley faster makes scenes play out so much better and I LOVE that attention to detail. Cutting out Syril’s whole pursuit of Cassian on his end did wonders for the first half of the film. Seeing his response to the disaster on Ferrix was a perfect introduction to him as a character, but with all the focused headshots looking at the aftermath it seemed like he was going to be further development of him as an antagonist, but that never happened as he disappeared from the rest of the film which was odd as I was waiting for another appearance. Mon Mothma’s initial scene hit HARD this time around, and it felt like an impactful cameo that made perfect sense in this film. Though, I did feel that her character arc did not end up going anywhere afterwards and she didn’t have any conclusion, so I personally think just that one scene would have been all that was needed. Luthen comes across as one of the most interesting characters in the show and my only wish here was that 1 or 2 more scenes were left in with him as he played too small of a role for how much he seemed to affect Cassian. The heist crew was edited to perfection, each side character was given their one moment in the sun to make an impact on Cassian and they never once dragged on or were given too much spotlight. Absolutely phenomenal treatment of the rebel crew. Finally, I think that the film could’ve benefitted from another 20-30 minutes of runtime as it did end quite abruptly for me. Concluding without the actual heist occurring was a tough one for me. In a way, it was poetic, but after so much build up and planning you naturally expect a payoff. Starting the next film with the heist seems to me like I will lose so much of the investment in the characters that I had been building for the last 2 hours, so I’m not yet sure how to feel about that until I watch the sequel. I think that cutting out ~5 minutes of the initial flashback and adding the heist plot would be perfect and still keep the film under 3 hours, especially considering cutting some of the later Mon Mothma scenes. Overall, I greatly preferred this format for rewatchablitily and cannot imagine sitting through breakfast with mommy again, so this is a marked improvement in that sense. I will score the narrative a 8/10, though I will say I generally prefer slow, long form story telling so a near 3 hour runtime would not intimidate me in the least, which is what I think this film needed.

Enjoyment: With everything said above, this film was a thrill. It was so unique in its storytelling, themes, and pacing. This was a true Star Wars spy thriller. The D+ version was a one of a kind experience, but this edit is also one as well. Baking down all of the crazy number of original scenes into a 2.25 hour runtime is no easy task. I enjoyed the film from start to finish, and would rank it an 8.5/10 experience.

Final rating average: 8.6/10

Thanks for making this, I don’t think I ever would’ve rewatched the D+ show start to finish again, but this… this I could go back to.

Thanks man. I appreciate the time you’ve taken to write this.

Can you let me know what spelling mistake you’re referring to? Could it just be an English to American English spelling?

Also can you give me timestamps for the transition errors? Are you sure they’re not just deliberate J-Cuts and L-Cuts to help transitions?

Adding another 30 mins to this edit would take that away from Chapter II. I thought leaving it on a cliffhanger would make people want more, and it seems to be working 😉 I’ll release the next part once the Kenobi requests have settled.