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I’ve recently finished this long and difficult project if anyone’s interested 😃
I’ve always been one of the people who thinks the studio torpedoing ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ to bring Din and Grogu together again was a big mistake - in principle and in story - so I did TBBF as my first edit in early last year to rectify this and now I’ve done this over a year later as the main bulk of the work.
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It’s now down from 8 episodes to 5, but that means it matches my “Sidequestless Edit” of TM seasons 1 and 2 that I may upload in future, so it’s all good:
Episode 1: The Droids - 35 mins, all of “The Apostate” and the Tatooine portion of “The Mines of Mandalore”. Everything is about gearing up to the trip to Mandalore’s surface, and it revolves heavily around IG-11 and R5-D4 hence the name.
Episode 2: The Expedition - 43 mins, the main bulk of “The Mines of Mandalore” and both Din/Bo portions of “The Convert” back-to-back. Everything is about Din’s journey to Mandalore (now with just R5), the perils within and the aftermath to the Covert. The name comes from Din and Bo on Mandalore, and Bo’s first steps in a new journey on a new world as a new member of The Children of The Watch.
Episode 3: The Survivors - 53 mins, the main bulk of “The Convert” and the covert’s portion of “The Foundling”. Everything is about Dr Pershing and Elia Kane, fates now left ambiguous, and the rescue of Ragnar Vizsla. The name comes from Pershing who survived being coerced into Gideon’s service, Kane who survived the assault on Gideon’s light cruiser at the end of Season 2, and Ragnar Vizsla who survived the aerial raptor snatching and almost eating him with their young.
Episode 4: The Warriors - 52 mins, all of “The Pirate” and a very condensed version of “Guns for Hire”. Everything is about Gorian Shard’s attack on Nevarro and the Covert’s assistance in rousting them, in part thanks to Carson Teva, and then Bo going straight to Plazir-15 with Din to get the rest of her fleet back to reclaim Mandalore - no droid sidequest, no celebrity cameos. It’s so named because of the actions of the covert on Nevarro, the fleet on Plazir-15 and the new merger between them.
Episode 5: The Reclamation - 70 mins, all of "The Spies and “The Return”. Eps 7 & 8 always felt like it was meant to be a two-part final episode, so I just put them together - from the Shadow Council to Nevarro to the huge chunk on Mandalore to Adelphi to Nevarro all over again. It’s named for obvious reasons, but also with some small meaning stemming from Din reclaiming his livelihood through his deal with Teva, and reclaiming a home on Nevarro with his new cabin.
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It’s taken a leaf from “Andor” and has annotative text for locations - which, considering a lot of expository dialogue has now been removed and the Mandoverse has been shallow and underdeveloped as hell since the start in my opinion - it works fairly well to fill in the gaps nicely.
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It’s a Mega link as it’s .12 over the limit for Google Drive unfortunately, but feel free to reach out.
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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. Unfortunately, even though GG had almost no impact on the overall story, there were a lot of shots he was right in centre-frame, so I can’t cut him out without eliminating a ton of everything else for a few frames/seconds. Not great but also not a lot of choice.
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Also, this is actually the first project I’m putting out into the world for other people to view and watch too, if you do have any particular notes and feedback, please be constructive and don’t be an ass about it.
