Hal 9000

Sounds like a good time.

I do wonder if you have any thoughts about one particular moment, being when Ben tells Leia she reminds him of someone in Ep2. I think removing drawing a line to Padme allows the audience to assume he means Anakin, which feels more germane to what happens next.

Yes, it also smooths continuity with my own fan edit of ROTS, of course. Just wondering.

Yeah, but it still gets that point across retroactively. I could put in the line, “Not even the younglings survived,” to introduce the term without security footage of Anakin personally slaughtering them taking over Obi-Wan and Padme’s motivations. We do see in LOE some very young bodies strewn about so there’s still the idea that Jedi of all ages were killed. The main thing I wanted to do for LOE is avoid having killing tiny kids be the first thing a semi-reluctant Vader goes to do. It still happens implicitly, but Anakin himself isn’t known to be directly involved because it overshadows his overall betrayal of the Jedi.

But yeah, not altogether called for, but I haven’t decided for certain. Also will depend on which Kenobi fan edit I end up adopting as my go-to out of the crop!

EDIT: I looked again at the relevant conversation in Ep5, and Kenobi does express his knowledge of Anakin killing the younglings.

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Well, I could possibly update TFA if Nev’s Starlight V2 merits it. And I am not 100% sure yet that I won’t want to update my prequel edits to comport better with the Kenobi series and future things. (Who’d have guessed Anakin killing children that day would be a plot-critical thing in new live-action Star Wars?

Tantalizing work, keep it up!

Cool it, guys.

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I got a translation already, but I appreciate the offer!

‘Rey Nobody’ is 100% live and available in the usual places. 😄

OP updated with changelist for this alternate version.

“This looks like fun.” -Anakin

Thank you for letting us know. I’m so pleased to hear this is coming along under their consultation.

Very much looking forward to the final product.

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ ends with character info about what happened to them.

“Owen and Beru were incinerated while resisting arrest during a domestic violence dispute.”

“Bail, Breha, and the rest of Leia’s family died when their planet was destroyed by the Empire. Her cousin was off-world on Spring Break and was the sole survivor.”

“Luke attempted to revive the Jedi Order, though retired after his nephew became a school shooter.”

“Obi-Wan tried so many new spices and drank heavily, expanding his mind under the renewed tutelage of Qui-Gon to the point he nearly forgot ever hearing his own name.”

“Obi-Wan’s boss was stabbed three weeks later in the parking lot over a dispute regarding a three-piece fried chicken meal.”

That sounds nice. His costume is different at the end of the series, though, so that may be a frustrating continuity barrier.

Vladius, NFBisms, and RogueLeader need a government grant to hammer this out in full.

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Paging Backstroke of the West.

Well crap, you’re right about the milky eyes. Don’t know how that happened. I’ll get that fixed while I’m fixing another thing anyway.

And the dyad line was deliberate. The scene in the Rey Nobody edit already has a lot of sentence mixing for Kylo Ren, so I thought it better not to push things too far and only lean out on that branch as far as needed to get the important things taken care of.

They all have Spanish subtitles, among others. Should be included as part of the file itself. 😃

I was made aware of a few big (but simple) errors in some of the subtitles, including one that stays onscreen for an hour.

So I’ll fix and replace these, and update you all here once this is all done 100%.

I adore that as an opening sequence, NFB. It’s disturbing, even.

Movies Remastered said:

Brilliant! Well done, Hal. I bet that’s a load off?

Not to be dramatic about it, and most of what’s been frustrating is the regular life stuff that has made it so hard to get it done!

The alternate ‘Rey Nobody’ version is basically complete now, I’m pleased to report. Currently the large 1080p and DVD5 versions are available via the same link I send to people who request access, with the other two versions to follow once they are encoded. After that’s done, I will make torrents for them as well.

This alternate version has no commentary or alternate language tracks, although all the foreign language subtitle tracks are present. (Manually shifting the subtitles took more work than anything else!)

Thank you to Spence and everyone instrumental in completing this version. With this in place, Ascendant is… complete now. I did make a few audio tweaks to saber ignition sounds as I described a while back that I would like to see reflected in the regular version as well, but which don’t make sense to reissue unless I were fairly confident there’d be no V3. (I don’t see one on the horizon, which I’m okay with, so maybe I just will go ahead.)

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Make it hundreds of troopers in varying levels of being in one piece.

When Owen and Beru are found burned to death in ANH, add a few dozen charred stormtrooper remains, so you know they had to have put up a real fight.

He calls it his ship also in ESB. “Take the princess and the Wookiee to my ship.”

I enjoyed this show overall, and I appreciated what it was going for. I chuckle a little now at my own concerns going in about continuity, about what an adventure with Ben and Leia would mean, Ben’s “long time” that never really amounts to much in a row, etc.

But it seems to have taken a penny on these and left a few pennies in return. In the OT, Ben seems viscerally aware of the sort of effects the Empire has on the galaxy at large, and with Vader as more machine than man. These give the impression of something other than watching the news. Originally this was because the Empire seemed to predate Luke himself, and Vader likely having a more involved history with Kenobi, before later continuity came about.

Now, Obi-Wan can speak to these things from his own personal experience. And it explains his apparent opportunistic, invitational approach to training Luke.

Vader was treated interestingly, and I look forward to the next occasion that I watch through the saga (not something I want to do any old time), as I imagine it’ll very much help bridge that character from prequels to originals.

I do wonder what a film version would have been like, and any fan edit would still end up feeling like something made for TV. Perhaps a two-part TV movie would be a good form-factor, at about 4 hours total.

Once something as grand and magical as a show about Ben Kenobi passes out of the realm of platonic ideas and potentiality and into concrete, specific shape, it’ll inevitably become lesser. That said, I enjoyed having this to watch and don’t feel like we’re any worse off for having had it. To me, from Rogue One onward, non-saga (“Episodes”) stuff has feel like extra credit.