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EddieDean

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#1619469
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<strong>Star Wars Animated Film Collection</strong>
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That sounds extremely solid; well done! I’d love a link. I’m especially curious about your second movie - I think Cloak and Malevolence are both important to Ahsoka’s early journey. I’m interested to see how you handled Ryloth too, I did a lot of merging of plotlines there and really changed the narrative.

The only major elements that are notably missing from this, off the top of my head, are Zygerria, Umbara, Onderon, and the Order 66 arcs. Arguably Scipio too, but that’s weaker. Any thoughts on those?

Oh, and how did you handle the later Ahsoka-Mandalore content which also includes Lux Bonteri, without his introduction in the ‘Heroes on Both Sides’ arc?

If you’re curious to review some optional alternative approaches which could add value, I’ve got a few episodes that you might be interested in:

  • My Ryloth arc, which intercuts Ahsoka in the air with Mace on the ground for a tighter plot.
  • My Lair of Grievous/Massacre mix, which uses AI dialogue to frame the Lair of Grievous events as directed by Ventress for revenge against the Sith (rather than related directly to Cloak of Darkness), which then triggers the retaliatory massacre, giving her greater grief about her actions.
  • My Corruption on Mandalore arc, which removes the poisoned kids plotline but reshapes the rest into a single Ahsoka-Padmé narrative.
  • My Heroes on Both Sides arc, which removes the awful murder subplot and completely restructures the whole into a new narrative tht gives Padmé some real depth and a good bittersweet victory.
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#1618285
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE] + bonus Quinlan Vos episode by g00b!
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I still come back to the movie in my mind from time to time. Obviously Smudger has created an excellent movie to open TCW. In my observation Smudger is focused on the pure quality of the individual movie experience with his - so each is extremely well paced and satisfying standalone. Whereas, I think my focus would be a bit more around treating the movies as part of a very serialised whole, and retaining (objectively weaker) moments that Smudger would have cut for quality and in-the-moment focus.

In essence, any movie I’d make I’d want to keep compatible with my episodic TCW:R, being able to just directly replace a handful of episodes. I think Ahsoka’s early episodes, like Assassin and Malevolence, are important to her arc. I don’t know if you need the Malevolence itself, but I really like the Ahsoka-Plo storyline there. I think there’s a plot that could work which uses the 501st trilogy as the spine, with Assassin’s story about Ventress grabbing Gunray as the prelude to 501st’s invasion, and the 501st’s imminent invasion as the motivator for the urgency which gives Ahsoka the conflict about saving Plo in Malevolence.

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#1618090
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE] + bonus Quinlan Vos episode by g00b!
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TheDimitrios said:

It would be great to have the Padme Funeral scene from Totj in the last episode!

I don’t intend to do this, mainly because it doesn’t pertain directly to the plot of TCW (it more directly follows RotS), and I don’t want to interrupt what I consider to be a flawless ending in TCW’s final episode. Better experience for the viewer is simply watching Tales of the Jedi: Resolve after RotS and the finale of TCW:R. (Which is how I have it presented currently.)

TropicHawk said:

Thank you so much! That’s exactly what I was looking for!

EDIT: Oh! Since you’re asking about other potential updates or inclusions, I figure I’ll throw in what I’d personally love to see, although I recognize I’m likely in the minority on this: Part of what I’d love to experience when going through Star Wars chronologically is a steady build-up to the Death Star, and that begins with an explanation of the Kyber Crystals and how Jedi obtain them. (That’s why I like the Ilum content from CW’03.) So, I personally would love to see a shortened/refined version of the episode where the younglings obtain their Kyber Crystals.

I can do this, I’ll bump the refined version of this episode up the priority list for next to work on, and add it as an ‘extra’ episode alongside other ‘interesting but not vital to your enjoyment of TCW’ episodes.

sgscobie said:

Taking requests… Yes, that you please make your edits more easily accessible either on Google Drive, Gofile, pCloud, or Vimeo 😉

I’ll host my content wherever is cheapest for bulk hosting. I currently have 500GB of fanedits - happy to take suggestions. Google Drive (free version) isn’t feasible due to some of its restrictions.

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#1617923
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE] + bonus Quinlan Vos episode by g00b!
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Folks, not quite a promise as who knows how life goes, but it looks like I’ll have some time coming up soon to put a bit more work into this. Is there anything I’d previously promised, or anything else relevant to TCW, that you guys would like me to prioritise? (For example, minor fixes, extended versions of episodes, etc)

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#1617472
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<strong>Star Wars Animated Film Collection</strong>
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Ah, OK. Well, the green ones are definitely the good ones. How are you handling Asoka’s development, insofar as her early appearances (in the weaker episodes) establish the character flaws that she later overcomes? How are you handling the anthology feel, with many (great) arcs having minimal Anakin/Ahsoka?

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#1615384
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Star Wars Episode I: Cloak Of Deception (Released)
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JeromeTheEditor said:

On the topic of the speed force scene, I tried my best to fix it only using the shots that were available. Can’t tell if it works tho.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TXMVxHg7gEI6g8naHVJjCws5Npi1Atc4/view?usp=drivesdk

Honestly this is totally good enough. If it can be improved beyond this, excellent, but great work.

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#1615173
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Clone Wars Movie Series [Episodes I to V released; Episode IX: The Fallen Apprentice now Complete!]
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smudger9 said:

EddieDean said:

Looks great. Why cut Maul talking to Jesse about the grand plan? That was always one of the highlights of the episode for me.

We get most of that exposition in Maul’s interactions with Ahsoka and I didn’t want to detract from those scenes. The whole arc hinges on Maul luring the Jedi (ultimately the wrong Jedi) to Mandalore so the focus should be on that dynamic.

Maul revealing the nature of the grand plan to a clone didn’t feel right for his character. Clones are beneath him.

Sounds great either way. I’ve always been a big fan of yours. What’s next in this series for you? What’re your major plans for the remaining content? Any thoughts on an alternative opening movie? As you have, I’ve thought this content to death, so if there’s any valuable perspectives I can offer I’d be happy to.