Hal 9000

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.

Also, and I mean this seriously, if any fan edits want to include any of Order 66 footage (what we’ve seen any any more to come), they’d have to do something to make the troopers look less real. Otherwise they’d totally stick out. And probably rotoscope any lightsabers, at least when they’re in fast motion when they start to look like sticks.

I don’t mind Kenobi not knowing Vader is alive in principle, but it seems hard to square with how he’s depicted as a big deal and well known.

I’m unsure whether this will end up feeling better as a single feature or miniseries, fan editing-wise, but I plan to also have fun and play with it myself. Been… been a little while to really do that that way. Nothing may come of it, we’ll see.

The only two things that leapt out at me to cut out of a potential fan edit is Leia being chased on Alderaan and the dialogue about Padme between Leia and Ben. (Just to cut it off after, “You remind me of someone.” Let the audience assume it’s in reference to Anakin, and avoid straining continuity with my own fan edit of Episode 3. Also lop off the opening recap to part one.)

Looking forward to some Andorian fun after that trailer.

Fullmetaled said:

@adywan Is it possible for you to … updating sly snootles just her to look a bit better

Oh sure, no problem, he’ll have it done by end of next week.

I’m ready to have some fun.

Use a deepfake to replace Mark Hamill’s face in the Vader mask during the dream-duel sequence on Dagobah in ESB with that of Hayden Christensen.

Here’s how I’d subject a complete newcomer, mythical creature though they be.

ANH (OOT)
(wait like a week)
ESB (OOT)
(wait like a week)
ROTJ (OOT)
(wait like a week)

Then wait a few months or something. Let it sink in.

Ep1 (my edit, I guess)
Ep2 (my edit, I guess)
Clone Wars microseries part 1
The shortest run-through of EddieDean’s TCW project
Clone Wars microseries part 2
Ep3 (my edit, I guess)
Kenobi series
Solo
Rogue One
ANH (my custom SE)
ESB (my custom SE)
ROTJ (my custom SE)
Mandalorian Trilogy (?) (smudger9’s film edits of Mandalorian and TBOBF)
TFA (my edit, I guess, but Nev’s works)
TLJ (my edit, I guess)
TROS (my edit for sure)
The Holiday Special

A slight prequel in which he has cranky days by himself on the island. I’d watch it.

The added sparks to Jango’s jetpack is true. I have listened to the DTS audio for AOTC theatrical version, and the corresponding sounds are missing.

Yeah, none of those elements post a problem with Rey Nobody.

Yeah, I still feel like it deserves to exist and be made available. Even though I feel Rey Palpatine is the more seamless and presentable option. Not substantively, because they 100% could’ve tweaked things before releasing and have this work out fine, but in terms of conniving a fan edit using what we have to work with.

If it ends up existing, I’ll be happy to include it. But it won’t come from me.