This sounds excellent and well-considered. I’m also curious about the shield gate changes.
However, would you please consider a version which preserves the Vader hallway/Leia ending, for those of us with an unmodified ANH?
This is all great Del, please keep it coming! This edit is NEVER complete, I’ll always be tweaking it. And I plan to read through this thread in full again soonish to make sure I’ve caught everything. I already have eight existing episodes with at least little tweaks planned, and nearly got round to some this weekend. Feel free to mock stuff up (or cleanly edit the episodes/sequences and send them back complete if you feel like going that far!) - I’ll fully credit you in any such case. But worst case I’ll get round to it all eventually!
The Clone Wars does explore that thread further, with the mystery of the clones and why the Republic just accepted it, but it comes very late in the Clone Wars so the audience is asking ‘why?’ for quite a long time either way.
Thanks Del, I really appreciate the feedback. I’m doing yet another full watchthrough, with a friend, and will bear all of this in mind as I do so.
That’s tidy, yeah.
Oh, and since TCW:R is all complete now and officially listed on IFDB, if you’ve watched and enjoyed the show, I’d really appreciate a review!
❤️
By somewhat popular request, here’s the Younglings arc, one of a few bonus ‘not quite vital’ episodes. This one continues Ahsoka’s development solo, as a teacher, and as a lightsaber combatant - though it’s technically nothing too new for her character. It does give us some competent and threatening Grievous, which is always nice to see. But mainly I decided to work on this one now because it features Huyang, who we know from the trailer will return in the Ahsoka show. We now, arguably, have all of the key Clone Wars episodes that’re relevant to the Ahsoka show included in TCW:R.
Anyway, this isn’t an amazing episode, but it’s not terrible. It features those Jedi padawans, who are fairly annoyingly childish, but ultimately OK in small doses. It’s always good to see Hondo, and the story is perfectly decent if a little light on emotional investment.
Those familiar with the source material might note the absence of the ‘Gathering’ episode. Sure, it sets up those kids more, but they are not our main characters. (Ahsoka is, and where they reflect her training they are, but otherwise, they’re very unimportant to the focus of the Clone Wars - especially since the spinoff show that was going to feature them never got made.) And the Gathering (whose only familiar character is Yoda), and what comes after (this episode), are really two different plotlines. I will, naturally, one day produce that Gathering episode for the people who really miss it, but I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone who’s really willing to put up with kid focus just to get more of a feel for how Jedi get their crystals.
Anyway, this one’s fine, and it means you’ve got maximum Ahsoka out of this show.
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Hey Del, great to have you back!
It’s not been bumped, it just needs a new version minus FoD (since FoD is in Dreams of Destiny now). It’s a lower priority for work compared to some other episodes though. You’re right about the placement though, it should be s03e00b - I’ve updated it.
In other news, I’ve noticed an audio error in Retribution (AKA Massacre), and will fix that and add radio effect to Dooku soon. The next proper episode to come out will be the Younglings arc, but this may be a little while as I’ll be away from my PC for a couple of weeks.
The benefit of editing is that it’s all additive. Anything produced adds to the pile, and you can either add to it yourself or take a different path. I think that Acbagel’s new 1-4 (that carry you through season two) are so strong, that you could absolutely make an alternate cut of BOBF (Acbagel’s earlier book 5 is great for that) and a new cut of the season three content into a couple of movies, as an alternative that continues off Acbagel’s existing work. Then we can all take two different paths through BOBF/Mando season three, and meet up on the other side ready for season four!
We must be close to release, so please consider this a very heavily raised hand for a copy when you’re done!
Ohhh damn I’d better check, thanks!
Haha! 😎 Sometimes the vibe just grabs you, y’know?
You are a maniac.
Expand on that!
Are you sure? I’ve just checked my rendered file and it looks fine to me.
Is it alright if I get a PM link to this project?
Sorry, I missed this. PM me and I’ll send you the link.
Oh, and forget what I said about needing to ask for a link to the workprint - I’ve put it in the spreadsheet.
This ‘episode’ contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Star Wars: Rebels!
It is intended as a RECAP in advance of the Ahsoka show, for people who have already watched Rebels.
This movie-length episode is the complete story of Ahsoka from Star Wars: Rebels. I’ve skipped only a little of her content (where she’s just around, or helping recruit Rex), but all of her relevant character development between Clone Wars and the Mandalorian/Filoniverse-era is here. In particular, we focus on her discovery of Anakin’s fate, and her struggles with that information.
SPOILER WARNING: In order to tell Ahsoka’s full story, I also included the ‘flashbacks’ to her season two storyline featured in the season four episode World Between Worlds. These also include major spoilers to a key Rebels plotline.
Either way, I did this because I wanted to tell the complete Ahsoka story from Rebels, because it’s really fun and powerful to consume it in this way. That makes this a little unique, and because of that uniqueness and the other related spoilers, I would not recommend this for a first-time viewer. People who’ve already seen Rebels would probably have a blast with it though - I think it’s a worthwhile story told in an intresting way.
I haven’t really deviated from canon, but in amalgamating episodes from across a whole season into a full standalone narrative a few scenes are now recontextualised as referring to other events, and many events in this timeframe are skipped. It’s a focused recap!
Anyway, I also included as many relevant scenes as I could relating to the events of the Clone Wars, including a few great lines of dialogue (that really hit well when in focus like this) and a lot of Inquisitor content (especially the one where they’re pursuing force-sensitive kids). I didn’t include a couple of notable TCW-related episodes - Always Two There Are (which is set on an old Clone-Wars-era medical station) and The Last Battle (which features a lost droid army) because they don’t feature Ahsoka. Also notably, I’m not including the episodes where Rex joins the crew, or where he and Kanan reminisce, because they’re not Ahsoka focused.
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I also recommend you don’t read this - just go in blind and let it do its thing!
This episode was a whole lot of fun to produce, and if it’s what you’re looking for I think you’ll really enjoy it.
Haha, yeah. I got in the zone and just smashed it out in a day and a half. To be honest though, if it were intended to replace (some of) Rebels I don’t think it’d do it justice. There are other projects tackling Rebels, and frankly if you’re wanting an edit of Rebels you really need the context of at least 60% of the whole show, which is either many movies, or a TV edit like g00b’s. You’d need all the Mandalorian and Thrawn stuff, and a lot of the earlier content which sets up the later stuff. I think in this incarnation it’s a powerfully told refresher on Ahsoka’s (entire) Rebels story, with a load of nice callbacks that conclude TCW:R nicely (including its heightened spiritual focus), with good focus on the key elements in that era that the Kenobi show also explored - Inquisitors, Anakin/Vader, Sidious’ plans, and the fallout of the fall of the Republic and rise of the Empire.
Rebels movie is rendering now. It’s a workprint, but a very polished one. Let me know if you’d like a copy.
I’d go with the former! I feels like it’d make the most sense in terms of the focus for your edit. I’m also interested in the workprint 😃
Cheers buddy! The other reason I’d been leaning toward the former is because I want to avoid treading on your toes regarding Rebels - you’ve already worked through the whole show in a Refocused-style edit so why compete? It feels right to do something completely different.
Lots of work done on this movie today, which I think I’m calling FULCRUM OF THE FORCE. Still more to be done tomorrow, but I’m so excited to share this with you all. Allowing spoilers for Rebels has allowed me to play with the presentation of the narrative and chronology a little in an interesting way (without deviating from canon). I’ve cracked the overlap point where we transition from Ahsoka’s present to Ezra’s future, and got the right ending to bring it full circle, and what I think should be a fun beginning. I’ve just stitched the rest together so I can watch through a rough whole tomorrow morning and take notes for the remaining trims and polish.
First version of this will just use TCW conventions, but after gathering your feedback I might spin it off into its own thing with a traditional SW opening crawl so it can stand alone too.
Right, I’m going to make this rebels Recap movie in a fairly collaborative way, since there are a few interpretations for what this should be. So if anyone would like a copy of the workprint, please let me know and I’ll send you a copy.
The main question is: Should this be a true ‘recap’ in the sense that it’s really for people just catching up with Ahsoka’s story in Rebels before the Ahsoka show, having already watched Rebels? Or, should it be viable to watch this as its own thing without having watched Rebels, in which case it will spoil Ahsoka’s plot in Rebels but should tread more carefully around spoiling other content from that show?
I’m leaning toward the former, basically making this the final part of TCW:R (where Ahsoka is the main character), to show the aftermath of Ahsoka’s TCW story if you’ve just watched through. I think that’s the most useful and interesting, and the most appropriate for my focus. If I was to make a true standalone Ahsoka-in-Rebels movie, I feel like it’d be somewhat redundant, because the Ahsoka show is going to continue the whole of Rebels really, so you’d want to watch that entire show (or an edit of all of it) in order to get up to date. (Also, if I was going to make this a true Rebels edit, I’d want to make it a single movie-length episode that’d fit into a full series edit, which I’d rather not pursue right now.)
If I do go with the former, I think I’ll still skip over the non-Ahsoka content from the World Between Worlds episode, because I think we’re more interested in her perspective (since again, if we wanted all the Rebels stuff we’d just watch Rebels). It’ll be unique to watch it from Ahsoka’s perspective, but as this’ll be a recap for content we’ve already seen, we won’t mind the odd spoiler from what’s happening outside her story (and timeline).
Either way, if anyone would like to see how well it achieves those goals, let me know, and I’ll send out a workprint.
How long is that running to?
In an earlier draft, where you merged the two sets of armourer lines into one scene, I remember a bit of background noise from the rocky planet in some of her dialogue. Have you been able to remove that?
That sounds spectacular. Can’t wait.
This would be intended as a catch-up rather than for someone’s first time.