I was finally able to watch your edit, starting with Chapter 1. I wanted to say that overall I loved this edit, and thought you did a very good job. Though I do have a few criticisms that I hope come across as constructive! As the positives far outweigh any of the negatives.

A Small one that I had was the removal of Mando learning how to ride the Blurg. I didn’t have an issue with this from a story perspective, just that for me from where the scene was cut it felt like… the viewer was missing something. Perhaps it’s cause I’m used to the original, but it felt a bit too much like the scene cut halfway through the middle of a scene to me.

Similarly to this, I liked the idea of the Mudhorn scene change, though this one didn’t work as well for me. It seemed like the Mudhorn “spawned” out of nowhere almost, and some of the cuts have Mando all muddied and beat up, and the next cut has Mando looking clean and uninjured. Perhaps there would be a way to show more of the Mudhorn scenes without the entire Jawa subplot to avoid these few issues mentioned.

The next issue I personally found was on the farm world. I LOVE the idea of what you did here, and it worked 90% of the time for me. It’s possible I just missed what the scene was trying to say. But with the new added context, or I guess removal of context that Mando is supposed to be defending the town, it felt very weird to me that Mando seemed to randomly ask the two men who approached him at night at the Razor Crest for their credits for no reason other than to bring Cara Dune along. It just felt weird that he was able to ask for their credits with nothing in return.

It felt as a viewer as though the two men were “fans” and that they payed him to lie low at their village for what felt like a unknown reason with only the context of this Chapter.

I also found it a bit odd that the Widow at the farm told Mando “thank you” as he finally left. As from what we saw (unless I’m missing something) he didn’t do anything except take payment to lie low there for awhile? and never did anything for them.

Final thing, maybe I’m crazy but it almost feels like there’s some sort of filter over the video itself. I could just be seeing things, or it could be because the file size. I’m unsure but it seems like the colors are different than what’s on Disney+, as well as it seems there’s some Aliasing on small lines.

• a very small thing that’s not really a big issue. Is the credit cards at the end reference now cut scenes. Not a big deal but thought I’d mention everything I could think of.

I hope nothing came across as too critical, as besides those few things I loved every other change and thought it was seamless. I’m especially looking forward to Chapter 2 now!

Anjohan said:

Vader Returns - Piano Theme (the frontrunner for the scene as of right now)

https://streamable.com/vwhsix

Out of Curiosity, where did you find this Piano Theme? I like it very much and have been unable to find it online anywhere.

I think there’s value in it being a bonus episode as it is a decent episode, but is skippable as you said. I’m fine with either way probably, though if it were a bonus episode I’d likely watch it in my own watch through.

I think most people just really enjoy the arc, though there may not be a ton of story substance.

Though I’m not sure if there is anything there truly essential other than Echos fake out death as that ties into the Bad Batch obviously.

Very cool to hear. Will also say that I believe episode 12 has important parts aswell by showing that the empire isn’t fully “gone”.

Cool to hear that you may include parts of it as a cold open. As I view it as a “fun” episode, with a few important bits throughout.

Think I agree with Delpheas. Am I missing remembering or did you say that you’d add Citadel as a separate episode afterwards Eddie?

Reading the changelog for Chapter 4 and wanted to give some input. This is only my opinion obviously as it’s your edit, but in my opinion it’s mistake in the grand scheme of these “Mando verse” shows to remove Episode 12 from Chapter 4.

As it establishes that something odd is going on with the empire, as we see what seems to be some sort of Snoke business and cloning going on in the Imperial Facility. I already view that as an important scene with what is currently in cannon, and believe it will only become more and more important as more gets revealed in the coming seasons of Mando.

For the same reason I personally think leaving in the Ahsoka Thrawn dialogue is very important as well. (Maybe not currently with what we have in Mando, but almost definitely will be important in the coming seasons/ Ahsoka.)

I understand cutting it for the Mandalorian plot, but I expect it will be important to the plot of the Mandalorian quite soon. Perhaps even a potential future “Chapter X” in your edits.

Despite the criticisms, I wanted to say that so far, from just skimming through the Chapters as I haven’t had time to watch through them fully, Im very much enjoying your changes. And loved your approach specifically with having Mando’s and Boba’s plots intertwine in Chapter 2.

Would love a link to all chapters please!

Hal 9000 said:

Sending you both a PM for the link to finished product.

could I get one too if you get the chance Hal?

Don’t have much to offer. But I love that idea alot!

Sounds interesting! Would love a link

Felt odd to me because of all the quick camera changes, mainly at 17 seconds. But that could just be me feeling weird seeing something new.

To me it feels a little odd, and I prefer the current implementation in V1. But perhaps that is the point.

looking forward to it!

I can’t express how excited I am for V2. V1 was an incredible achievement on making the most of of TFA.

I personally am a fan of Otoh-Gunga. Mainly for the visual spectacle of it all. However I understand cutting it too. Perhaps it could just use some trims here and there to increase the pacing.

Same here if possible please

Hello does anyone have a link to the versions of this edit that’s willing to share?

thanks!

NeverarGreat said:

On an unrelated note, I was looking back over the discarded ending for this edit which was once to be part of its own edit, and realized that it may be fairly straightforward to include some of that after all. In particular, I could have the Resistance base transition to night and use my custom nighttime shot of the base. Everything else could be the same as it is in the current version, just retaining the color grading of the droid and map scenes to take place at night. I’d likely drop the explicit concept of Rey fixing R2 while keeping a hint of it with her staff in the background of the shot while R2 wakes up.

So what do you think? Would this be an upgrade to the edit or just a change too many?

Sounds neat to me! I’d love to see it.

Could I get a link aswell?

NeverarGreat said:

“General, the Senate has voted to send reinforcements. Will they reach us in time?”
“They haven’t got a chance.”

This way it’s up to the viewer to determine how many ships will be sent (though I like the idea that the ships at the beginning of TLJ are the ones that made it).

Big fan of this personally.

I like it

Could I get a link when you get a chance? Thanks

Does anyone happen to have a link for AoTC and or TPM?

Would like a link when you’re ready to send aswell