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I’m not sure I’m following the order of scenes you have in mind. If the fireplace scene is to be retained, it would be best to leave the original transition into and out of it.

TAS basically replaces the original kiss by the lake scene with the Padme’s family deleted scene, then uses the kiss later to replace the fireplace scene.

What order of scenes do you want to have? Let me know and I can try to make that happen, but it can be rather tricky to get a decent audio transition and sometimes that limits what I feel good about.

Fair enough!

The sunset grading for that scene was meant to replace the fireplace scene. If you like that placement for the kiss scene, though, I could try to have it fade into that scene, though it would break it up. I’d recommend letting me place it earlier, either where it was to begin with or swapped with the meadow sequence.

And I can export it as ProRes, if that works. Or mp4.

So you’re talking use my edit of AOTC up to the kiss, which you want to be as in the theatrical, and then the theatrical AOTC for the remainder of the movie except to still remove Anakin’s confession?

I could throw that together for you in whatever file format and approximate size you’d prefer, though I won’t hold onto it after passing it along to you. I must say it’s a weird request, like the first half of the movie is fan edited and the second half more or less isn’t. But, I could do it. Just let me know what specs to shoot for.

What a privilege. Sounds great.

Would also like to see these.

jrs81 said:

Wanted to make an opening suggestion with a pretty bold idea. Forgive the rough edit, just through this together quickly. Needed a star field and keeping in line with TESB and ROTJ, I wanted to open this Obi-Wan movie from an imperial perspective. I imagine a scroll with something like this:

"Darth Vader continues his search for Obi-Wan and has created his own personal Jedi Hunters, Inquisitors.
The ambitious THIRD SISTER has come up with her own secret plan to find KENOBI…

https://vimeo.com/716590202

Also includes a new introduction to Leia.

Very efficient! I like it.

Vader giving Kenobi the ‘Hook’ treatment? Disappointed in his ‘war’ with him and wanting him to prepare for a good fight?

I feel it’s better where it is, given the pieces I have to work with, including establishing shots and music. I do see your point but it screws over the pacing to toss in between Palpatine appointing Anakin and the Jedi Council.

Some very good stuff this episode from a “keep it ambiguous when Padme died” perspective.

Also a subtle reference to the old idea that Owen and Obi-Wan were brothers.

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I’d recommend making the saber(s) 50% between a close match of ROTS and ESB.

You mean you don’t already have the whole thing mapped out?

This guy gets it. 😃

That it’s already too late

Yes.

Excuse me using this thread to think out loud, but as the only Kenobi fan edit thread so far I think it’s the best place.

I really wish I had time to play around with this show, but I don’t. My daily life is constantly overstuffed and it’s just not feasible.

That said, I’ve been thinking about how best to made a one-movie version of this story cohere well with fan edits like mine that have Padme survive ROTS to live on Alderaan. There’d naturally be some sort of acknowledgement that she’d passed on by this point, some line of dialogue about “Well ever since her (birth) mother died…” Or Bail acknowledging that she is his daughter and a true Organa, but that it’s okay to remember her “real” (just using the term Luke did for it) mother as well.

What we’ve seen so far, excluding the opening prequel recap montage, doesn’t flatly contradict the idea that Padme lived with Leia on Alderaan for a time, it doesn’t fit like a glove. Unfortunately we don’t get to see Leia in her room or anyplace like that, or I’d suggest adding a holo-photo similar to in Padme’s bedroom in that AOTC deleted scene. Maybe adding Anakin’s little japor snippet carving in the background. Or something like that.

If all that can be done is to remove things that imply Padme was never in the picture for Leia, cut lines when Obi-Wan says she reminds him of someone, because before he clarified he was thinking of Padme (and saying she had died a long time ago), I thought he had Anakin in mind.

If the “worst edits ideas” thread was appropriate for Kenobi spoilers I’d suggest having Leia’s Lola droid just speak painfully direct exposition in plain English. “Ever since your birth mother died seven years ago you’ve been precocious.”

What’s the long term plan for Star Wars? It seems like there’s just going to be an endless string of chronologically haphazard stories, with no central time period of where the overall story is “now.”

yotsuya said:

Well, I think the inquisitors are supposed to be over the top and annoying. But deadly.

Anyway, my favorite part of this is Leia. That young actress not only looks like Carrie Fisher, but she is acting like Carrie Fisher. Perhaps more than she is acting like Leia. But we also see that Bail and Breha are trying to mold this young firecracker into the Leia she will be. I think they are trying to honor Carrie by how wild young Leia is. And if you think she is too short for the character, you haven’t been among kids lately. In any grade they very greatly in height. Up to about a foot. And since Carrie’s Leia was very short, her being short is in line. Vivien Lyra Blair is presently 10.

Is the one on the right her or Carrie??

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Ditto, Anchorhead. You’re an interesting case.

I enjoyed the first two episodes, though without feeling “excited” per se at any point. If the series is going to excel it’s gotta earn it.

It’s always great to see Ewan. As with most of SW TV, it often feels like a theme park attraction. The inquisitors were kinda real dumb, and it seems like it would’ve been more effective so far to just have one of them involved. Just a flunkie trying to curry favor with Vader. It was great seeing Owen, and I sure hope they give Beru some dialogue at some point.

Seems like Ben juuuust comes in on this side of owning a droid.
“I’ve never owned an entire droid before, Luke. Only parts of astromech heads.”

It’d be a hell of a lot of work to add realistic glow, even for a team of professionals.

The Grand Inquisitor “Pumpkinhead” is an imposter. You heard it here first.

I could see that clip working in the context of a movie version that doesn’t have dramatic cliffhanger endings.

I’d like a link! I remember once playing around with cutting up ANH into small chunks to reflect the radio drama.

Interested in Padme toward the end of Episode III. Hit me up, and congratulations on completing your project.

Add a purple GameBoy Color to Old Ben’s hut.