Vader vs Kenobi (RE-ARRANGED, Kenobi Does NOT Let Vader Live)

OT member Phase3 had a wonderful suggestion for altering the final duel in the Kenobi series so that we don’t end on Obi-Wan’s baffling choice to let Vader live. The basic idea is to move the burying obi-wan in rocks to the very end of the duel so that after Kenobi walks away from Vader with a sliced helmet, he screams out “Obi-Wan” then cracks the ground with the force, proceeding to bury Obi-Wan, walk away from the fight the victor. Then Obi-Wan climbs out and the fight is over.

If we can make this work, I think it would make the duel even more amazing than it already is (I quite enjoyed the fight outside of the nonsensical ending where Obi-Wan lets Vader live).

I created a mock-up of this idea. The changes so far:

-Reversing the flow of Kenobi retreating so it links smoothly to the later part of the duel.
-Flip shot of ground breaking for visual continuity.
-Removed Vader’s line “And that is why you will always lose” as he breaks the ground, rough sfx replaced (can be polished later)
-Cropped out vader of wide shot of ground breaking for visual continuity.
-Removed vader’s line “Did you really think you could defeat me?” after he buries him.
-Rearranged shots of Vader walking away for better flow

The one key change remaining to tie this whole idea together is somehow changing the final shots of the rock burying so that Vader’s helmet is still sliced in half. I don’t know who would have the special effects skills to do this but perhaps a community effort would achieve this.

Mock-up of the rearranged duel: https://streamable.com/myzuo3

Cool idea, but did you really need to post it in EVERY SINGLE THREAD about the Obi-Wan show? At a certain point, it starts to feel like spam. Still a neat concept though.

I understand. My apologies.
There was zero engagement in this thread and I thought every editor of the Kenobi series would want to maybe implement this idea and I feel it would take a community effort to make this happen (ala the Force Awakens restructuring) considering the vfx and sfx work needed.

darthrush did you find an edit that did it this way yet?

Not yet. I’m going to wait as long as it takes for someone to take up a similar interest in pulling this off because it was an epic duel and it would be great to fix the character inconsistency in the original fight.

I believe I could pull off the general editing and re-ordering of the sequence with new sfx and transitions and reframing/zoomed shots but there are unavoidable shots that need VFX work done on Vader’s mask (changing it from whole to cut in half).

That’s the one VFX work that is needed to complete the idea. Hoping someone of that skill set is eventually interested in tackling this concept.