ArcherEdits

A very simple and straightforward edit I periodically visited from September to December of 2022, around other edits I was doing at the time.
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I did this because it was clear the show was split into four dedicated story arcs – I’m fairly certain they announced and explained this before the show was even released. All I had to do was put the episodes in the right groups, and when I rewatched the series in one go via these giant mega-sodes, I can confirm the story was much more straightforward, leaner, easily memorable and tighter overall.

This four-part project was very simple since I just had to cut the credits off of two episodes, cut the introduction off of two others and paste them together four times over by merging them with maybe a second’s overlap to blend the different sound and video sources properly. There there were some other changes I made too; I preferred the series’ original logo than the one we got in the later posters and streamed episodes so I used that instead, I wanted each mega-sode to have a different introductory motif in the music and I changed the dynamic of Syril Karn and Dedra Meero.
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Arc 1: “The Man from Kenari” – 1hr44mins, all of the first three episodes “Kassa”, “That Would Be Me” and “Reckoning” all merged together. Nothing about this was changed, it uses the theme music from the first episode which is the standard theme of the series and there are no extra annotations. I chose that title because the first quarter of the season deals with Cassian the man: Morlana crime investigation suspect, Ferrix community member, Imperial site robber, family to Maarva and B2EMO, and a potentially valuable asset to Luthen Rael.
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Arc 2: “The First Mission” – 2hrs7mins, all of the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes “Aldhani”, “The Axe Forgets” and “The Eye” combined. The introduction music is right from the fourth episode, so that conveniently didn’t need changing and is a more action-themed take on the initial theme music, that fits into the events of the next three episodes nicely. There is one change I made by adding an annotative prompt in one location: in the aftermath of the Aldhani heist, they see the doctor “Quadpaw” on the moon “Frezno” in a forgotten sector in the Galaxy – this wasn’t relayed to the audience in TE, so I tracked down the font they used in the series and put that extra detail in myself. I went for this title because the Imperial payroll heist is the first (that we know of) mission Cassian takes against the Empire as part of a larger movement, like we see him doing as a captain of the Rebel Alliance before his death, and as Luthen has his finger in a lot of pies of the scattered Rebel cells it puts Cassian’s foot in the door for working for the Rebellion directly.
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Arc 3: “The Sentence” – 2hrs15mins, the seventh, eighth and ninth episodes “Announcement”, “Narkina 5” and “Nobody’s Listening!” mingled into one. This mega-sode uses the musical theme of Episode 8 – because the notes sounded higher (almost clinical) and a little like they were half-played and distorted, so I found it suited the prison arc very well with that kind of off-putting and eerie environment. I did make one change to the story in this arc: when Syril goes to see Dedra outside the ISB headquarters building, all leads to any sort of relationship or romance is removed – now they just talk about Cassian and their senses of justice etc and that’s it. That particular thread felt like – best case scenario: it’s just not necessary because not every story needs to have a love story angle shoved in – worst case: Syril is projecting very clear home issues onto someone and is being not-very-subtly creepy about it or going about it well – that’s just my take on that burgeoning dynamic anyway.

I found a lot of reasons to call it “The Sentence”: Cassian in prison of course, Syril starting his slogging journey to redeem himself on Coruscant and Mon Mothma learning the uncomfortable price of getting her family’s money back in her hands with giving away her own daughter into a marriage arrangement with the son of someone she despises as the main three. But also, Palpatine through The Empire and Colonel Yularen sentencing the citizens of the Galaxy to tougher lives and conditions through the PORD, and Bix’s capture on Ferrix – and her captivity and treatment by Doctor Gorst which left her stuck in a catatonic state for refusing to share information.
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Arc 4: “The Rebellion” – 2hrs6mins, all of “One Way Out”, “Daughter of Ferrix” and “Rix Road” bringing it all to the end of the season. The musical motif during the theme this time is that of the final episode where all the music tracks come together in a kind of orchestra, no doubt parroting the funeral procession on the Ferrix streets. No changes have been made to the story of the last three episodes and I called it “The Rebellion” for a small number of reasons: it covers the prison riot and the uprising on Ferrix against the Empire as the most straightforward reasons, but also Cassian’s formal induction into Luthen’s network and the attack on Spellhaus – if Saw agreed to help Anto Kreegyr, the combined efforts of their Rebel cells would have been exactly like the activity we saw in ‘Rebels’ seasons 3 and 4, where the Alliance of Rebels work together to achieve their common goal against the Empire.
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Because of the length of these mega-sodes, and the fact I worked and exported them in 1080p as always, the file size on each of them is generally quite large – 9 to 12GB apiece – 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.

I took it upon myself to reclaim some of my childhood somewhat by getting back the specific versions of the original two Star Wars trilogies I used to watch again and again on VHS and some DVD. Though finding them myself online in any measure of good quality always seemed to be very difficult, so I admittedly had a bit of a Thanos moment and said “Fine, I’ll do it myself”.

I saw ‘The Phantom Menace’ in the cinema when I was nearly 5 years old (I still remember the weird “Midichlorian count” line visual glitch) and used to watch it on its VHS release, ‘Attack of the Clones’ on VHS and DVD shortly afterwards, ‘Revenge of the Sith’ in cinema and DVD, and the Original Trilogy in the 1997 special edition VHS tapes in the special gold and black box.
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I did this because I’ve viewed all the subsequent releases as kind of the same: some of the changes were better than others, and others did feel more warranted than others in all fairness. But, despite that, I always found myself barely watching them on DVD or Blu-Ray because it just wasn’t the same, and they just weren’t clicking in my head the same way as before when I used to watch and really enjoy them when I was younger.

I used the Blu-Ray as a source for the prequels, and the ‘Despecialized’ editions for the Originals. These were opposite ends of the spectrum; the Blu-Ray had changes added to it from itself and carried over from the DVD before so I had a lot of things to take away to get it right – and the Despecialized’s had no changes at all post-1983, so I had a lot of things to add to get it right.
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July/August 2022 – Episode 1: 2hrs13mins. The droideka encounter screen with the Viceroy and ‘Force-Speed’ effects are in their old state, the podrace and starting grid sequence is shortened to its original length, I took away the air taxi on Coruscant so it’s back to the original skyscraper transition from the landing platform to Palpatine’s apartment, puppet Yoda returns in the temple and Naboo, the chants of “Vote Now!” in the senate after Padmé moves for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum.
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January 2023 – Episode 2: 2hrs23mins. I rearranged the scene through the power couplings during the Zam Wessell chase on Coruscant, took Shmi’s lines out of Anakin’s nightmare (actually a shame, it does feel like it adds things and makes it better), and corrected the drawn out scenes on Geonosis with Dooku escaping – both visually and in that scene’s music.
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January 2023 – Episode 3: 2hrs20mins. Thankfully very few changes this time. I changed the transition from Obi-Wan pensive after Mustafar to Anakin’s remaining hand clawing himself up on the lava shore and knew I needed to change the appearance of the hut structure on Kashyyyk where Yoda has his long-range briefing with the Jedi Council about General Grievous on Utapau. But finding a high-res clip of the structure as it appeared before the Blu-Ray was very difficult, so I kind of had to leave the DVD clip in – it’s not perfect but thankfully it only lasts a few seconds, so it’s a good placeholder until a better-quality clip of the same hut scene emerges and I can insert that later.
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December 2022 – Episode 4: 2hrs5mins. Using the despecialised version of the film as the base, I added special effects from the Blu-Ray that were in the 1997 editions (mostly the scenes with lots of VFX throughout, like those in space), but not all of them to make sure I omitted the ones from the 2004 special edition DVD and the Blu-Ray ones that most people felt were just unnecessary. Greedo shoots first (sorry), ugly Jabba appears (sorry), audio is updated from the Blu-Ray version and imposed over the despecialised footage in some places like the Tusken attack, Obi-Wan’s dragon call, movement in the trash compactor etc.
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Episode 5: 2hrs7mins. I didn’t do anything with this as this is not mine – this is actually the fan restoration that was completed by the editor “Adywan” that I was lucky enough to find Spring last year, so all credit there goes to them and not me as it’s all their good work.
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December 2022 – Episode 6: 2hrs15mins. Principle of this was the same as the ‘New Hope’ project with it having the despecialised version as the base and the cutting and pasting different sources in certain scenes, usually in the VFX-heavy space scenes. The Sarlaac has a beak again, the lightsaber blades cross into each other when Luke tries to kill the Emperor, the ending celebration doesn’t include Theed or the old Jedi Temple or Senate Office Building on Coruscant, Sebastian Shaw’s Anakin ghost appears.
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As with my work on ‘Andor’ season 1, the size and source quality of the original files means the file size of each of my exports are all on the larger side. Especially with the despecialised versions of the original films being around 20GB each in their own right, each film I’ve put out here is around 10-18GB – just to consider before you download.
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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.

A very simple and straightforward edit I periodically visited from September to December of 2022, around other edits I was doing at the time.
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I did this because it was clear the show was split into four dedicated story arcs – I’m fairly certain they announced and explained this before the show was even released. All I had to do was put the episodes in the right groups, and when I rewatched the series in one go via these giant mega-sodes, I can confirm the story was much more straightforward, leaner, easily memorable and tighter overall.

This four-part project was very simple since I just had to cut the credits off of two episodes, cut the introduction off of two others and paste them together four times over by merging them with maybe a second’s overlap to blend the different sound and video sources properly. There there were some other changes I made too; I preferred the series’ original logo than the one we got in the later posters and streamed episodes so I used that instead, I wanted each mega-sode to have a different introductory motif in the music and I changed the dynamic of Syril Karn and Dedra Meero.
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Arc 1: “The Man from Kenari” – 1hr44mins, all of the first three episodes “Kassa”, “That Would Be Me” and “Reckoning” all merged together. Nothing about this was changed, it uses the theme music from the first episode which is the standard theme of the series and there are no extra annotations. I chose that title because the first quarter of the season deals with Cassian the man: Morlana crime investigation suspect, Ferrix community member, Imperial site robber, family to Maarva and B2EMO, and a potentially valuable asset to Luthen Rael.
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Arc 2: “The First Mission” – 2hrs7mins, all of the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes “Aldhani”, “The Axe Forgets” and “The Eye” combined. The introduction music is right from the fourth episode, so that conveniently didn’t need changing and is a more action-themed take on the initial theme music, that fits into the events of the next three episodes nicely. There is one change I made by adding an annotative prompt in one location: in the aftermath of the Aldhani heist, they see the doctor “Quadpaw” on the moon “Frezno” in a forgotten sector in the Galaxy – this wasn’t relayed to the audience in TE, so I tracked down the font they used in the series and put that extra detail in myself. I went for this title because the Imperial payroll heist is the first (that we know of) mission Cassian takes against the Empire as part of a larger movement, like we see him doing as a captain of the Rebel Alliance before his death, and as Luthen has his finger in a lot of pies of the scattered Rebel cells it puts Cassian’s foot in the door for working for the Rebellion directly.
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Arc 3: “The Sentence” – 2hrs15mins, the seventh, eighth and ninth episodes “Announcement”, “Narkina 5” and “Nobody’s Listening!” mingled into one. This mega-sode uses the musical theme of Episode 8 – because the notes sounded higher (almost clinical) and a little like they were half-played and distorted, so I found it suited the prison arc very well with that kind of off-putting and eerie environment. I did make one change to the story in this arc: when Syril goes to see Dedra outside the ISB headquarters building, all leads to any sort of relationship or romance is removed – now they just talk about Cassian and their senses of justice etc and that’s it. That particular thread felt like – best case scenario: it’s just not necessary because not every story needs to have a love story angle shoved in – worst case: Syril is projecting very clear home issues onto someone and is being not-very-subtly creepy about it or going about it well – that’s just my take on that burgeoning dynamic anyway.

I found a lot of reasons to call it “The Sentence”: Cassian in prison of course, Syril starting his slogging journey to redeem himself on Coruscant and Mon Mothma learning the uncomfortable price of getting her family’s money back in her hands with giving away her own daughter into a marriage arrangement with the son of someone she despises as the main three. But also, Palpatine through The Empire and Colonel Yularen sentencing the citizens of the Galaxy to tougher lives and conditions through the PORD, and Bix’s capture on Ferrix – and her captivity and treatment by Doctor Gorst which left her stuck in a catatonic state for refusing to share information.
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Arc 4: “The Rebellion” – 2hrs6mins, all of “One Way Out”, “Daughter of Ferrix” and “Rix Road” bringing it all to the end of the season. The musical motif during the theme this time is that of the final episode where all the music tracks come together in a kind of orchestra, no doubt parroting the funeral procession on the Ferrix streets. No changes have been made to the story of the last three episodes and I called it “The Rebellion” for a small number of reasons: it covers the prison riot and the uprising on Ferrix against the Empire as the most straightforward reasons, but also Cassian’s formal induction into Luthen’s network and the attack on Spellhaus – if Saw agreed to help Anto Kreegyr, the combined efforts of their Rebel cells would have been exactly like the activity we saw in ‘Rebels’ seasons 3 and 4, where the Alliance of Rebels work together to achieve their common goal against the Empire.
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Because of the length of these mega-sodes, and the fact I worked and exported them in 1080p as always, the file size on each of them is generally quite large – 9 to 12GB apiece – 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.

Interested in some 1080p ones if there are any

The Edit that started it all as my first attempt into video cutting & videography in January of last year before doing a second version in June of last year, right before my “Sidequestless Edit” of the Mandalorian seasons 1 & 2.
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I did this because the show had 2 glaring issues. The first is having what I called “’The Eternals’ problem” where the story is split into two parts in past and present to try and make up for lost time, and often when one portion only just starts to build traction and get interesting, there’s a time jump suddenly which cuts off the momentum and is very unsatisfying. The second issue of the season was having half of the story taken over by someone else, with a horrible decision made in the finale narrative-wise.
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This edit is actually the second version of the project: the first version in January ’22 split the first four episodes into past and present, but I got very unsatisfied with that because that meant all the present portions were between 14 and 31 minutes each, which definitely felt too short per episode, lost traction within themselves as stated, and half the present parts were left on cliffhangers with the original episode ending in the past twice. This version of the project no longer exists I’m afraid, the work files are all gone.
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This, the second, version of the project is spread across 9 episodes – 4 in the past covering the episodes’ flashbacks, and 4 in the present, and 1 in the present acting as an overall epilogue:
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4 ABY: After the Battle of Endor - 20 mins, all of the flashbacks of the pilot episode, with a custom episode card I made and the musical notes of Episode 6 playing during, like the title cards of all of the flashback episodes because I liked it and it felt like it was a shame to lose it since Episode 6 was heavily reworked later.
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6 ABY: 1 Year after the Battle of Jakku - 34 mins, all of the flashbacks of “The Tribes of Tattooine” and a custom title card like above. This flashback episode is stated to take place in 6 ABY but, once again, it’s just a personal headcanon of mine to help pad out the story for two reasons. First is; the first three lots of flashbacks all look like they could take place within days or weeks of each other before suddenly jumping 5 years after RoTJ, which is pretty jarring so hopefully this alleviates that – secondly, there’s been little-to-no detail on specifics in the 5 year gap before ‘The Mandalorian’ started, so this just helps to fill out the timeline a little (hence why I don’t have the first three episodes’ flashbacks as 1 giant episode in itself).
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8 ABY: The Deals Run Sour – 7 mins, the short and single flashback of “The Streets of Mos Espa” that wraps up everything Tusken and follows the same card, music and headcanon rules as the first two episodes.
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9 ABY: Reclaiming The Past - 30 mins, all of “The Reckoning” as it first appeared, with a custom title card for the edit like the other episodes and 1 clear change to the story. I always disliked Fennec being the one to kill the Sarlaac because it felt like Boba should do it – for obvious reasons it would be a much more personal and satisfying kill for him to do it instead, so I changed it around so she reaches and misses as usual and he flicks the switch to do it now and gets his revenge – no talk of her touching his buttons since that now didn’t happen.
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Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land - 45 mins, the present portions of episodes 1 and 2 with a few changes in the story. It starts off six weeks after the finale of The Mandalorian season 2 (headcanon for story placing reasons) and begins with the Cobb Vanth portion of Episode 6 with the Pykes – this immediately ties the story into the wider shared universe, especially as it’s happening on the same planet we’ve visited many times now and frames the Pykes as the main overarching threat of the present story straight away. It goes to the beginning of Episode 1 right after with Boba in the bacta tank having his dreams, but in lieu of the first flashback we get the episode title card instead. The rest of the first episode plays out as normal with the other changes – the line about needing a protocol droid is gone because it makes them lacking something that basic seem woefully unequipped for anything, much less taking over a whole criminal empire – with the Gamorreans, Fennec doesn’t ask if sparing them is a good idea, she just runs with it rather than openly showing little confidence in her boss – and when they’re accosted in the streets by the assassins, Boba doesn’t start the fight with a wrist rocket (because why WOULD you fire a rocket point-blank when you’re both right there? Seriously, it was always stupid), this does create a small discrepancy with Boba holding his helmet and then suddenly it’s gone, but it’s a lot more liveable than the missile.

It then blends seamlessly into the present of Episode 2 after Boba’s rescued by the Gamorreans and put back in the bacta tank and has no other changes to the story until the end of the events of Episode 2, once the Hutt twins appear in the streets and lay claim to Jabba’s territory while Boba gets a veiled threat for refusing and meets Black Krrsantan.
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Chapter 2: The Streets of Mos Espa – 40 minutes, the present portions of Episodes 3 and 4 with some more changes. It begins with Episode 3 as normal with the former Jabba captains and their respective turfs being explained before the water monger appears with his disrespect and scam, Fett goes to investigate the Mods and ends up recruiting him when learning the monger was the real villainous party, then comes the title card. Boba dreams of Kamino in his bacta tank before Krrsantan breaks in and tries to assassinate him and the rest of this Episode’s events play out as normal until they see go to see the mayor. I’ve shortened and greatly reworked the speeder chase with footage from Episode 7, now it unfolds like: the major-domo flees -> the Mods go after him without Fennec telling them to which shows more initiative on their part (plus if they all went there together, they were probably clued in on the plan anyway) -> there’s the shot of the protocol droid in the street nearly getting hit which shows the major-domo’s recklessness as he tries to escape -> the red and yellow bike Mods sidle up to the speeder and use their augments to try and stop the speeder (so they’re useful) but the major-domo gets rid of them (no yellow bike crash) while the blue bike Mod watches on -> Boba shoots at the speeder from the air which draws the major-domo’s attention skyward, and manages to shoot the right engine, spinning the speeder out of control and it crashes. The rest of the Episode’s events plays out as normal with the Pykes arriving, but the line after keeping an eye on them is gone – it felt unnecessary and like Bala-Tik’s Scottish accent in The Force Awakens, the voice and the “Mate” just sounds too jarring next to everyone and everything else.

It blends right into Episode 4 and kicks off with the bacta tank but only shows the flashback dream of killing Bib Fortuna and taking his throne before waking up and having the dinner with Jabba’s former captain’s above the Rancor pit.
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Chapter 3: Return of The Mandalorian – All of Episode 5 with annotations as usual, and only some minor changes that only take place at the end of the episode. When Din is approached by Fennec, he keeps the money (because he just forked out on a new ship and a man needs to eat – him agreeing to stand and fight when it’s literally none of his business in any way IS his repayment for Boba’s help with Grogu against Moff Gideon in TMS2) and he doesn’t say he’s going anywhere first, because now there’s no giant segway in the middle of the season and he helps Boba straight away to try and keep the Boba show focussed on Boba and Boba’s business in Boba’s city. All of the Luke/Grogu portions were good, but they felt incredibly badly out of place in a show that isn’t a Luke show or even a Din show, so they don’t appear anymore here.
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Chapter 4: The Storm Breaks – Some of Episode 6 and all of Episode 7, and this is the main event of the series edit since the finale is where I had the biggest problem, and the Mandoverse kind of definitively went in the toilet IMO – what with the second season of the Mandalorian becoming pointless, having it so straight away since it’s the first show released since then, and ‘Rangers’ being cancelled in Feb 2021, 10 months before this released, so a lot of the following stories are probably rewritten in some capacity to compensate for this, like Mando S3 as a prime example.

It begins with the Episode 6 portions of Tattooine – Din arriving at the palace in his new N1 before offering to help with reinforcements by going to Mos Pelgo to recruit Cobb Vanth and his town. In a way, it’s a nice bookend for the present parts of the series – Vanth is there at the start of the first episode and now he’s back at the start of the last one, with the Pyke threat looming over both. Talks end in a stalemate and he leaves before Cad Bane shows up just before the Pykes bomb Garsa’s sanctuary. There’s the Chapter title card and it goes into the beginning of Episode 7 with Boba and Fennec at the bomb ruins. The rest of the episode plays out as normal except for a few changes with the Mod twirling on the spot to take out some Pykes after saving Krrsantan (because what was that in the first place?), Din and the Rancor to make him less superhuman with being thrown and bashed and through rock buildings, and having a several-tonne war robot coming down on his leg and not breaking a single bone. And, of course, the main point of the edit: No Grogu. He and Peli are completely absent from the episode so the reunion never happens and Boba’s Rancor goes down after its rampage in front of an exhausted Din by basically tiring itself out through all the destruction it causes (it’s still a baby, after all).

I changed the title because Din’s line about them dying in the name of honour against the Pykes is gone – it’s been very clear Din is struggling with his decision to give up Grogu and wants to see him again. Him being comfortable on any level with dying before either reuniting or letting go completely doesn’t 100% track with me, so it makes more sense that he’s willing to fight for the cause, but he’s not going to want or try to fall in any way until his business is done given how much Grogu affected him and his life, even in just a short span of time.
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The Mandalorian Season 3 Prelude: Difficult Choices – Lastly, as I stated above; the Din/Luke portions weren’t necessarily bad in any way, they just felt incredibly out of place, so I put them all in an epilogue episode that now takes place after the business on Tatooine. I put it as a prelude to the third season because I figured it would be actually relevant TO the third season, given how much of a big deal it was capping off the second one the way it did, but clearly that didn’t shake out beyond a single mention.
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Like my edits of ‘The Mandalorian’, 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 they’re a bit different this time: some of the annotations for the Mos Espa city appear twice – the first one telling where a location is in relation to the wider city in Chapter 1, and in Chapter 2, those city locations are annotated again, this time reiterating which crime family it belongs to – to spell out the make-up of the city in terms of the actual criminal empire the series is about building and maintaining.
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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.

The second half of my edit from mid last year
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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 second season, the episodes are generally more worthwhile to the overall story, so doing an edit of the season to match the one I did previously was a little tricky.
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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, and the episode title and episode cards are a blue-grey colour – almost verging on a hue of purple – keeping it consistent with the official studio poster for the second season and just helping differentiate from the other half of the same project.
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Episode 6: The Marshal - 51 mins, all of the first episode of the second season, with a custom episode card I made and custom ‘previously’ card to match my work on the first season, and with some of the footage from my Season 1 edit in the ‘previously’ portion for consistency’s sake since it otherwise uses footage that contradicts the flow of events in my edit of Episode 2 when they’re still on Arvala-7. It’s said to take place one month after Nevarro, but this is just a headcanon for the sake of details and overall world-building and spacing out the story, I don’t consider it properly set in stone, it just helps me with the story.
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Episode 7: The Heiress - 39 mins, a shorted and changed version of “The Passenger” and all of “The Heiress”. The former episode definitely always felt like a sidequest to pad out the story with the ice moon adventure, so cutting it was a relief for the most part (there’s one or two good or amusing moments, but not enough to make me want to keep it all). Now, The episode starts as usual, with Din travelling back to Mos Eisley with Boba’s armour, gets into a scrape and returns on foot, meets Peli in the cantina and gets another lead on other Mandalorians. Back in her hangar, she begins cooking the dragon meat and introduces Din to Frog Lady, declares she’s an excellent judge of character and it transitions right into “The Heiress” in the Razor Crest’s cockpit as they arrive at Trask with the same Iris Circle visual effect for the same amount of frames as the original episode. They still have the bumpy landing but because the first exterior shot of the ship is when they’re about to descend – the damage from the ice spiders can be “disguised” as the result of entering the atmosphere roughly and burning up moments later – the landing array not responding before that is just a simple technical malfunction as well, not the result of any attacks or enemies, and when Grogu is left with the Frog couple he isn’t told “you know what I’m talking about” when minding his manners, since he isn’t seen eating any frog eggs now.
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Episode 8: The Sieges – 74 mins, all of “The Siege” and all of “The Jedi” together as one episode. ‘The Siege’ always felt like a sidequest to me because right at the start Din’s talking about knowing he has to go to Corvus and why, but still has to spend an entire episode doing something else somewhere else before he can even get started on going there. Unfortunately it’s an episode that I just can’t cut out because it reveals a huge amount of things in one episode, so I’m forced to keep it: you learn about Mythrol’s background from 1x01, you learn where the Imps on Nevarro came from out of nowhere in “The Reckoning”, Mando learns Gideon is still alive and he (and the audience) get their first glimpses of the horrific experiments this Imperial Remnant is conducting that obviously becomes more important later – and the Crest is fixed up, which you see a lot of in coming episodes so you can’t just have no explanation for it. Ultimately I tried to just make the best of this episode – it starts with Mando talking to Grogu about Corvus, you meet familiar faces in a familiar place (who now don’t get told about the New Republic damaging the Razor Crest since ‘The Passenger’ hasn’t happened anymore), learn a bunch of stuff that fills in a lot of blanks, and then you actually go to Corvus properly and spend the rest of the episode there. It’s a bit long for one episode, but ‘special’ episodes are always longer and it’s the long-awaited first-appearance of Ahsoka in live action, who happens to be the director’s pet project – so it’s understandable in that respect. The name ‘SiegeS’ comes from the Mando trio attacking the Imperial base, and then seeing Ahsoka’s sieges at Calodan to get to Magistrate Elsbeth for the information she posesses.
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Episode 9: The Tragedies - 59 mins, slightly shortened versions of “The Tragedy” and “The Believer”, with a custom title card for the edit like the other episodes. The main way I turned this into one episode was to trim down the repetitive aspects of both (Din and the Forcefield so it’s just once now (pun not intended), getting rid of asking if a rock has a control, and later Din brawling three times on the fuel carrier), which then brought TT down to 29 minutes and TB to 33 minutes, which both seemed way too short for a full episode of live action in a <10 episode series, so I just chopped TT’s credits off and stuck them together. Luckily the two episodes go into each other very seamlessly and the fact “The Prisoner” wasn’t in the First Season’s Edit doesn’t actually matter – Din talks to Cara about Migs Mayfeld on Nevarro and in that conversation we get: his Imp background, full name, where he was arrested & why – so clearly Mando knows him - and Mayfeld’s reaction to seeing him on Karthon tells you something bad happened between them, so you can see this as his “first” appearance and get on board quite quickly without a whole sidequesting episode about how they know each other already. It’s called ‘The TragedieS’ now because it covers the mission on Tython resulting in Grogu being abducted & the Razor Crest being destroyed, and also the revelation of Mayfeld’s breaking point and subsequent defection from The Empire after they massacred an entire planet of loyal civilians and their own soldiers on Burnin Konn through ‘Operation: Cinder’.
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Episode 10: The Rescue - 42 mins, identical in principle and method to Episode 6 where it’s just another version of a single episode again this time. Custom title and episode cards as per usual. Starts out in the Mid-Rim (another headcanon for the sake of details and overall world-building), Pershing is taken into custody by the heroes, custom title and episode cards, rest of the episode plays out unchanged from the source.
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Like my edit of Season 3 and 1, 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.
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It’s a Mega link like Season 3
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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.

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.

Curious what the progress is on this project 😃 but if none then no sweat, real world problems come first

I’m curious about the amount of grain and colour saturation left - with these kinds of projects, is it usually quite negligible in the final product?

Very interested, especially for ANH and RoTJ - higher quality the better

I’ve been looking for a good link to the Respecialized ANH for a long time, did he do RoTJ as well?

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ArcherEdits said:

Is there a link for this available?

The first post in the thread/link below has an “ultimate introductory guide” link to HanDuet’s guide which shows where you can get Respecialized (and other stuff from Harmy).
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-V2-7-MKV-Released/id/12713

That doesn’t seem to mention how to acquire the respecialised versions unfortunately - the 1997 versions are mentioned in the source files of other projects available, but that’s it

That’s actually what I’ve done for ‘A New Hope’ and ‘Return of The Jedi’ in lieu of finding a proper ground-up restoration like Adywan’s work on ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ - great minds think alike!

I’ve never thought about uploading them though, I may consider it in the future if there’s enough want for it

I’ve been thinking about a feature-length and dedicated “House of M”-style cut of WandaVision for a while now but can’t seem to have any luck finding one.

Has anyone heard of one out there somewhere?

I’d love a link to ANH and RoTJ - any word on the file sizes?

Is there a link for the 1997 SE’s?

Is there a link for this available?

I’d really love a link to this if there is one 😃

Definitely sounds interesting, could I get a link as well?

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.