Grand Admiral Thrawn

That’s been my biggest issue with the prequels is Anakin having issues with the Jedi from the beginning and being aware he’s the “Chosen One”.

I think it makes for a better story that he’s not aware of this and why the Jedi are making sure that they help him. They are not “holding him back” like Palpatine suggests, he is supposed to be the “best of them” and they are carefully making sure that is the case.

The first time Anakin should ever know about the prophecy is when Obi-Wan is yelling it to him while he burns to a crisp.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

I’d have to prefer GAT’s version, if it were spruced up, personally.

Yeah, I threw it together in like 10 minutes. The audio needs to mesh a little better and maybe cut off a few more frames before it cuts to Anakin sitting down. Maybe a little foley for the garage and some crying sounds for poor Ani and it would be golden.

Up to Hal though! I think it would be nice to include like you said though because it is really the only time Padme gives any feels back to Anakin before the arena scene.

That’s where mine is different. Anakin is more questioning of himself not being able to fix things. He only carries his anger inward, not towards Obi-Wan or the sand people. It is more nuanced, which Padme then picks up on and consoles him about it.

The nice bookend is then Anakin promising to his mother that he wasn’t strong enough and he won’t fail again.

It’s funny how including only that first snippet and the aftermath, plus the words to his mother, help reframe that Anakin thinks he is a failure as a Jedi and he blames himself for being weak, not everyone else for holding him back.

Then with Hal’s Episode III edit, Anakin’s fall comes about more from a distrust of the Jedi holding things back from him. Here Anakin is thinking the Jedi are teaching him all these things and then it turns out, or at least he is led to believe, that the Jedi fear him and are holding him back which causes him to go off the rails.

I don’t want to sidetrack Hal’s thread though if he doesn’t plan on adding any of the garage scene back. I did go through the edit again and this would be the logical ordering for it:

Carrying Shimi -> Garage -> Obi’s Message -> Funeral / Viewing Message

In Attack of the Clones, after receiving Obi-Wan’s message and speaking with Mace Windu from Tatooine… Anakin and Padmé just steal C-3P0 from the Lars family and leave without notice.

Not sure how exactly the ads generate revenue, clicks or just them paying to exist on the site, but AdBlock add-ins are awesome and I haven’t seen one since it was added to the site 😬

True, I just thought a more slimmed down version could help the relationship a little more in the movie. It is pretty redundant though.

Hey Hal, another suggestion to add to along with JarJar’s since you are hopefully making some small tweaks/fixes on the wider-canon Episode II cut, I mocked up a shortened version of the infamous garage scene that I think would be nice to add in. Basically, it removes the cringey whining lines and red flags about slaughtering a village, but it still keeps Anakin confiding in Padme that he isn’t strong enough as a Jedi and her comforting him afterwards.

It was pretty quick to mock up and I just recycled some music from before with Anakin and Padme. If anything, it maybe needs a little bit of foley added for the garage.

Garage Scene - Minus the Red Flags

JadedSkywalker said:

What i can’t get over is the housing moving me into an apartment complex knowing this woman is nuts and makes false complaints and they’ve moved her around but won’t throw her out of the neighborhood. She made false noise complaints to them all last summer and the did not listen because she is a crank, so she calls cops on me when I’m asleep in bed.

And they had the audacity to move me here from my comfortable apartment down the way and lie and say my new neighbors were nice.

They put me in a situation where i can’t live or make any noise. They take my rent money more than i can afford every single month, they hardly seem to care.

Like they don’t care their own irresponsible movers stole important documents of mine, stole and committed theft of expensive items and destroyed valuables. As well as family heirlooms.

I’m ranting i know. But i condemn the entire lot of fools and condo board who bought this neighborhood. Ever since sketchy people work for them come at all hours and the things they allegedly fix they make worse, construction is always going on. The so-called landscaper’s landscape like criminals, i used to landscape i now how to do it properly. You don’t mow a lawn with a weedwhacker.

The people who paint don’t know how to paint looks like someone did it with a blindfold on. They come to fix your doors and windows give you no new screens, and make sure your door closes worse than did before you complained. And not only is your shower impossible to turn on its impossible to turn off, and leaks water into the hallway if you don’t put beach towels or spa size towels in front of it.

The last year has been a nightmare.

I’m determined to somehow hack out an existence even in the mist of high inflation and tariffs. And nothing in the world being constant anymore or making a lick of sense.

Not sure if you live in the United States or not, but if so, I’d suggest doing some research into the “Fair Housing Act” as well as filing complaints. Landlords or management companies do not have a legal right to forcibly move you from your residence if you are in good financial standing based upon fraudulent complains from one troublesome neighbor. They would need multiple complaints from several neighbors as well as concrete proof of a problem to even begin discussions of relocating or termination of a rental. It sounds like you have a very overbearing situation, and they would not have any legal footing to stand on if you threaten it.

I just watched this again today. I’m not sure if Spence will ever consider a V4 of this. But here is my feedback:

• As mentioned above, there is a technical glitch at 1:29:49.

• Another technical thing that is a bigger undertaking… replace the source files with HQ rips from the 4K release. Colors are much better and this will help greatly with artifacts and crushed blacks from the Disney+ rip

• The musical cue when Leia is taken is a bit overdone. Maybe silence is better here? Some quieter echoey stings perhaps?

• There needs to be some explanation as to WHY Vader doesn’t continue pursuing Kenobi after their first fight. An AI line could help here, but what the reason is, I’m not sure. Maybe an AI line for a Stormtrooper stating that Reva has Leia and then Vader says something like: “Kenobi will come back to us.”

• Palpatine. This scene is essential to explain why Vader stops hunting Obi-Wan. It should go between the final Leia goodbye scene and the scene of Obi-Wan packing up to go meet Luke.

Not sure if this has been posted, but in the current version it goes completely black at 1:29:49 for about half a second.

I threw together a quick poster for my Plex server, figured I’d share!

Bingowings said:

See Threepio in the prequels speaks with a Jamaican accent for the prequels and only adopts the fussy butler persona after his memory is wiped in Episode 3 when his memory is wiped again in episode 9 the accent comes back.

This should be in the best edit ideas thread.

I threw together a quick poster for my Plex server, figured I’d share!

s88 said:

There are far too many of you wasting your time and expertise on resurrecting a dead Sith because you lack the will to simply omit him from episode 9. The judgement on this is as poor as the original tRoS movie was.

The trailer looks great. It seems a lot of editors of this just try to condense the show. It’s refreshing seeing a new take with a clear vision.

Linero said:

Thank you for the information. I would like to help with story beats.

Mon says they need Jyn to testify in front of the Senate. After watching Andor it doesn’t make much sense.

All good!

I suggested something like that earlier in the thread:

Mon suggests Galen will testify to the Senate, but given the events of Andor, what’s the point of this?

“…maybe some AI can be used to extend Mon’s line. It could be added over when the room gets silent to look at Bail Organa and notcing he looks different from how he did in Andor 😄

“and return him to the Senate for testimony. People will wake up when truth is restored to that chamber.”

Linero said:

Could I get a link to the current edit please?

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Uh oh, the memes have arrived.

Poor Hal is going to have so much feedback to catch up on when he returns to this thread that he’s going to need go remove the “a half-assed version of DigMod’s” from the title 😂

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Anyway, just want to say a big than you to everyone that donated. We hit the target to raise the $1000 so it has now been matched by the kind donator. It’s such a shame that the pound is so strong against the dollar at the moment with $1000USD converting to about £750.00GBP, so still a little way off the £2000 target for the monitor /drives. I have the wash and cure station and 3d printer all set up and the monitor , while out of stock at the moment, will be in stock mid next week so i will be picking that up the moment it is in stock.

Don’t know when my connection will get sorted so i may be quiet for a while if they cancel next weeks appointment again

Thanks again

Another small tweak to consider…

• Remove Baze calling Jyn “little sister”

He’s known her like a day at most, that moment has always come across as odd and trying to forcefully add more of a family-type vibe to the group that just isn’t there.

I’d be willing to help as well. My job is in technology and I have a background in SQL and database management.

Not sure if these are possible, but I gave ChatGPT a try for potential fixes:

• Limit posting for new accounts — maybe require a 24-hour waiting period, or only allow replies after reading a certain number of threads or posts. Even a short cooldown would cut down on hit-and-run stuff.

• Auto-remove or flag posts that include phrases like “any links?” or “where can I find…” from accounts with under X posts or under X days old.

• Force new users through a rules acknowledgment step, especially emphasizing “no link requests.”

• Temporary posting bans (automated) for first offenses, just to discourage the behavior without needing mod intervention every time.

So ignoring things like Lando and Rian Johnson’s trilogy that will maybe never release, officially we have these likely coming up:

Movies

• The Mandalorian and Grogu
• Starfighter
• Filoni’s New Republic Era
• Mangold’s Dawn of the Jedi
• Rey’s New Jedi Order

Shows:

• Ahsoka: Season 2
• Maul: Shadow Lord

Things I would like to see (in no particular order):

• Omega animated-spinoff show
  • Misadventures of the Rebels during the OT-era
• Tales of the Sith shorts
  • Vader, Palpatine or Snoke
• Darth Plagueis movie
  • Tie up loose ends from The Acolyte and adapt James Luceno’s novel
• Star Wars: Jedi Academy
  • 3D animated show like TCW with Luke, Ben and other students going on adventures
  • Bascially, TCW for the sequel trilogy, ends with Luke going into hiding and Ben turning