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I’ve been pushing myself to upload this, following the edit of Season 3 I uploaded in August of this year thanks to some good feedback I’ve received on it 😃
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I did this in June of last year because, while I like the show, I’ve always struggled to like the FORMULA the show operates under. For the first season, the only episodes that actually have anything to do with the main overarching story of the season are 1, 3, 7, 8 – so I kept those written in stone before mostly discarding all the others.
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Both halves of this edit are down from 8 episodes to 5, matching my “Grogu-less Edit” of TM Season 3:
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Episode 1: The Job - 39 mins, all of the pilot episode, with a custom episode card I made, the few mirrored shots in the episode are corrected so they’re now the right way round horizontally, and some shots are trimmed to make things better like Din being less helpless stuck in the Blurrrg’s mouth before it’s stunned. Everything is just the first episode: so it’s about capturing the Mythrol on Pagodon, meeting up with the client, going to the mission, meeting Kuiil at his moisture farm and IG-11 at the Nikto mercenary compound – which is all part of the same “Job” Mando’s taken, hence the name.
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Episode 2: The Child - 47 mins, a shorted and changed version of “The Child” and all of “The Sin”. This episode took the most time to feasibly reconstruct and was the most difficult to keep consistent. It goes like: Din and Grogu retrace their steps and come across the Trandoshan brothers from the Nevarro Guild, who are all defeated -> Custom title card -> Din and Grogu keep moving, deciding to take a different route to avoid more bounty hunters, and come across the Mudhorn cave, and because it’s an otherwise dead end, they have to go through. Din scouts ahead to make sure it’s safe, meets and fights the beast and almost dies in the mud but Grogu saves him, exposing his Force-Sensitivity to his escort and fainting -> that night, Din repairs his tattered armour as best he can in the field and checks on Grogu, who is still unconscious -> the next morning they make it back to Kuiil’s vapour farm who sees Grogu and takes them back to the Razor Crest on his large hover tray (small visual discrepancy in the condition of Din’s armour during their conversation because of the limited alternate footage I could use from the hover tray). They get to the ship, Kuiil declines a portion of the reward and wishes Din and Grogu well as they leave Arvala-7 for Nevarro, and it goes into “The Sin” seamlessly for the rest of the episode – No Jawas, no scrapped ship, no egg.
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Episode 3: The GunslingerS – 40 mins, a shortened and changed version of “Sanctuary” and all of “The Gunslinger”. The former is an episode I’ve never been able to get through without checking my phone to be honest, and the latter isn’t really relevant to the larger story of this season - but the characters therein become inescapably relevant later, so it’s like I have no choice but to include it as a middle ‘break’ in the overall story. Din and Grogu fly to Sorgan (Omera and the villagers appearing in the fly-by shot), they meet Cara Dune and Din trades hands with her (edited to take some of her hits out so he looks like a more competent main character) and they trade histories after their stalemate so she’s properly introduced and given character development still. She leaves and Din declares the planet “taken”, one of the Nevarro hunters is spotted coming through the woods and is gunned down suddenly by Cara (also assuming he’s a hunter after her like Din was, and the tracking Fob confirms his line of work) Din appears and they learn he was after Grogu instead, so they know he’s here and they’ll keep coming. Din stomps the tracker, there’s the episode title card and it immediately goes into “The Gunslinger” with the Razor Crest dogfighting in space - and the rest of the episode plays out as normal with going to Mos Eisley, meeting Peli and her garage droids and so on. The name comes from Cara Dune, Fennec Shand and Toro Calican in this one longer episode – and Boba Fett in the credits of course.
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Episode 4: The Reckoning - 38 mins, all of “The Reckoning” as it first appeared, with a custom title card for the edit like the other episodes and mirrored shots have been fixed.
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Episode 5: The Redemption - 45 mins, identical in principle and method to Episode 4 but with a more consistent title with the rest of the episodes, and one major change: the ending with Moff Gideon cutting his way out of his downed Outland TIE fighter with the Darksaber has been moved to the end of the credits. I chose to do this because in the original episode, Gideon cuts himself out while Greef Karga and Cara Dune are still walking close-by, it feels like it would be better to lie in wait until you’re sure the area is deserted before making a move and revealing yourself, especially if you know you’re surrounded by enemies. Plus, having it in a post-credit scene hopefully makes it feel more ominous that he survived, especially with the run-up to the second season.
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Like my edit of Season 3, I went back after “Andor" was finished November last year and added annotative text for locations the first time it appears in the season for the viewer - which, considering he Mandoverse has been shallow and underdeveloped as hell since the start in my opinion - it works fairly well to fill in the gaps nicely. Though the timestamp at the start of Season 2 is just a headcanon to space out the story, I don’t consider it written in stone.
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It’s also a Mega link like Season 3, still no Google Drive or anything else
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Footnote: As I said before, 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.