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Yes. I didn’t like the show, but like you said, it gets a lot of things right. It’s the kind of story that just needs more love to get really good. The series has a lot of raw material that can be polished, and it has the potential to become something that the fans will really enjoy, especially in the hands of a person like PixelJoker, who as you mentioned, has the knowledge to make changes to the VFX, in addition to of being super dedicated to the project (just knowing that he recorded new scenes for this edit already shows the level of attention he is giving to it).

Honestly, this series is the product that Disney released that I liked the most. Not for the series itself, but for the movie it can become through the talented hands of fan editors like PixelJoker. After all, I think many fans have always wanted to see Obi-Wan and Darth Vader’s POV post ROTS. This story is more relevant to me than TPM, honestly (of course, if told correctly).

Yeah, you’re right. I really thought the scene of the Mandalorians being mercenaries was interesting, something we haven’t seen since I think AOTC, but I had forgotten about the love scene that occurs in the middle, which is really lame. I’m sorry ^_^’

szopman said:

I’m really wondering how this fanedit will end up 😄

Maybe you could switch the first scene of the new chapter to somewhere in the beginning of the movie ? It’s a nice filler that shows well what are the mandalorians up to and how they use the stolen imperial starships.

I think it can be an enjoyable movie, you could trim a bit the 1st ep, leaving a bit of pirate stuff (it’s fun and its a nice opening for the later storyline with Mandos rescuing the capital), trim the 2nd ep, leave some bits of 3x03 (depending on how much impact it ll have on the whole story), trim heavily 3x04, trim considerably 3x05 and cut 95% of the 3x06. The 3x03 side story can serve well to make the pacing better, to fill some moments/time jumps between the quests 😉

This is the way.

Today’s episode gave me stronger Holiday Special vibes…

I think the scene where Djin gives Bo the darksaber could come shortly after the events of episode 2. It doesn’t make sense that he had the saber all this time and only now explains that Bo is rightfully worthy. Like, why didn’t he do this MUCH sooner?

Oh yeah, like, as long as the change pixeljoker makes to the scene works, that’s fine with me. He might try his own approach that looks cool, too.

Particularly I think this one is better:

https://youtu.be/hf05Vzwf6Dw

For now, this season seems to be focused on Bo Katan’s journey, with Mando and Grogu being treated a bit like supporting characters at this point.

Hi, can you give me a link too, please?

What the f*ck was today episode… 40min less that you could include in your edit. Such a waste of time…

szopman said:

I definitely agree with the decisions you made so far about cutting stuff from the first two eps.

Regarding the whole Luke Skywalker / Grogu thing - wouldn’t be better maybe to end Ep III with a cliffhanger (Luke giving Grogu the choice) and then reveal the choice of Grogu in this one?

Or, alternatively - use all available Luke/Grogu/training scenes in Ep III to follow Grogu’s journey there, and then start Ep IV with Mando arriving on the planet and talking to Ahsoka and then cutting to Luke offering Grogu the choice?

It’s just that putting all the Luke/Grogu content as a prologue in this movie feels a little bit off to me, but on the other hand, we ll see what this season has to offer yet 😄

Totally agree. The Grogu/Luke scenes felt a bit out of place as the beginning of the movie for me too, looking like it doesn’t belong there. Particularly I think that these scenes look better as the ending of the movie 3. The emotional punch of this moment works better with it being the ending of a movie than a start.

But, if you prefer these grogu/luke scenes to be part of movie 4, maybe you could consider edit them to be more faster paced. That scene of the robots constructing the temple for example. As important as it is for the lore, it doesn’t seem important for the story of Mando and dragged a lot the beginning of the movie. It’s an ok scene for an episode of a series, but feel too much as a deleted scene of a movie. The same goes for the rest, if it doesn’t serve the actual story you are trying to tell, even if there are cool moments in these Luke/Ahsoka/Mando/Grogu interactions, then maybe it could be better to cut out the fat for a better start.

The faster you make Grogu going back to Mando, the faster you could start the real story of movie 4 and throw away once and for all that plot point of “Grogu being separated from Mando” that didn’t go to anywhere in the show, in the end.

I like the edit you made in the ending, connecting the parts of the flashback. Flow much better than just put one part right after the other.

But the insert of that bit where they smile at each other during the battle didn’t fit well for me, particularly.

In fact, I think that intertwining her childhood episode with the arc where she leaves the jedi order would be the best place to “deposit” these scenes of her as a child, because there is her true farewell to the series. It’s like saying “Hey, this is the last time you’re going to see this character, so let’s show you what’s left to know about her, which is her origin”. That would increase the strength of that arc EVEN MORE, making it even more emotional, in my opinion.

But maybe it’s a little weird to do that due to the difference in CW and TOTJ styles.

Anyway, I just think that the Life and Death episode works so much better being cut as flashback segments distributed in an already established episode/arc of Clone Wars/TOTJ than an episode as itself.

Eh, could I give a suggestion?

Why not intertwine the Ahsoka childhood episode with the RESOLVE coda? In the two arcs we see her dealing with family, dealing with a threat… We have good parallels here.

I’m suggesting this because her childhood episode is super boring. But making this related to their final “clone wars” moments would improve the memories of her past a ton. Besides that, nobody gives a f*ck about Ahsoka in the beginning of the series, so showing a slow and bland introduction of her as a season zero episode don’t give much sense to me, particularly.

I only watched this movie at the cinema, so I don’t really remember many details. But I remember two things that bothered me, which was the fact that Rocket and Quill started the movie sulking at each other for no reason, and the conversation scene between Gamora and her sister being too long. Did you change something about it?

oh_riginal said:

So why does the OT have to keep the sequels in mind whatsoever now? I don’t mind at all if Ady wants to make the ending of ROTJ feel like an actual ending, with no hint one way or another toward the sequels.

Because Adywan doesn’t like the prequels and likes the sequels (look at his profile picture lol). I think the sequels are garbage, but this is Adywan’s edit, so he does what he thinks is right.

However, nothing prevents someone to take Ady’s ROTJ edit (when it’s done) and change the ending to an approach more aligned to the prequels, too.

Anakin Starkiller said:

I disagree.

Well, I believe the majority of the fanbase would prefer Anakin saying something about giving his saber to his child in Episode III. Any attempt that sucessfully manage to make this work in a fan edit is generally well received, since this increase Anakin’s character.

Besides that, the fact that this Obi-Wan line isn’t adressed in any way before or after he said it, in any movie, just make this fact weird. Why the lie about Vader killing Anakin is adressed in ROTJ and that one, not? The audience then presupposes that that one is a fact, and then after ROTS we discover that the whole story about Anakin giving his saber to his child is just one more lie from Obi-Wan. This just makes we question how many more lies Ben told in the movies, a man who was supposedly meant to be a honorable jedi…

I saw this clip that show Vader’s voice more in line with the voice he have in the other movies. Did you already see this? And if you already saw it, you plan to insert this audio in your edit?

https://youtu.be/qmRRzpJDDv4

NeverarGreat said:

Also, this isn’t a critique with your work but with the scene itself, but the sparring scene feels weird and has since the beginning. The biggest problem for me is the strange cut near the end when Obi-wan leaps into action again. It feels like there’s a missing shot, and I assume this was a cut point in the original scene but there’s definitely a loss of continuity here. The lines ‘Your weapon’s gone…it’s over.’ followed by ‘Your need for victory, Anakin, it blinds you’ feel superfluous to the flow before and after. Obi-wan’s next line ‘You’re a great warrior, Anakin…’ feels like the proper end to the action, and it may be best to just delete the second false ending altogether. I’d suggest cutting from Obi-wan being disarmed straight to the wideshot of Obi-wan spinning out of his crouch to put an end to the fight.

Also agree.

PixelJoker95 hinted that he would do something about the sparring scene in his edit, regarding the de-aging VFX. Maybe he can deliver a better result in making the actors look more similar to theirs AOTC versions with his own approach.

NFBisms, if you can answer that: you plan to work on the conversation between Anakin and Obi-wan before they fight? I saw your edit and really liked that you changed it to something more personal, although the dialogue between them seemed a bit unpolished for me. But still in the right direction, better than the original movie!

The original dialogue presented in the theatrical version is pretty stupid, in my opinion (my pupil and best friend is going to the dark side and I talk about… republic and democracy… duh).

I understand that edit that part must be really hard, but it would be so good to see a more emotional conversation between the two, as if we were really seeing the end of a friendship in that moment (with Obi-wan really trying to help his brother).

alastair said:

I’m not an editor, but as a viewer even this felt like it could have been 1 hour shorter. Many individual scenes just felt like they dragged a touch too long.

I agree with this.

I think you had a good idea intertwining the Boba and Mando storylines, as well as putting Mando in the beginning of the story and moving his reunion with Grogu to the end of the movie. Making this a Mandalorian Episode 3 is a good choice, too.

But I still think A LOT could be cut, really. Even entire scenes, like the “Holding Court” one, could be totally discarded in my opinion. The Boba Fett story unfortunately is too weak to sustain so many screentime (even in an edit that cut the fat like yours). This is Mando Episode 3 after all, so it shouldn’t be necessary for Boba to gain so much prominence, since he is not the protagonist of this story anymore in your edit. Besides that, to me Boba still seems to require Fennec’s approval on certain matters, instead of taking control of the situation, as we expected him to do from the start. And yes, he still talks a lot to a person who’s always been so quiet in the Star Wars lore.

Anyway, if you ever plan to make some kind of change to your edit in the future, my advice to you is this: make Djin be the real protagonist of this story, since Mando storyline is the strongest point of BOBF, and as for Boba, leave just what is really necessary for us to understand his arc. I like Boba and I care more for him than for Mando, but in the BOBF, less is more with him. Just my two cents.

Thank you so much for sharing your edit.

Anjohan said:

I’ve totally missed this.

It’s not a bad idea, and if I revisit the edit I might look into taking a similar approach.

Cool, I think this will improve the story A LOT.

MalaStrana#2 said:

It looks very good: at last a Disney Wars on tv production not looking cheap ! (I don’t count TCW/Bad Batch since they heavily derived from Lucas era standards)
A few nice stuff into it as well. My only worry is that it’s a prequel to a prequel I don’t like by more or less the same team.

Agree on every word.

This turn out good. This youtuber made a restoration of the scene too, if you are interested:

https://youtu.be/qGcArxTB-dQ

What’s the run time of your edit, please?

Ah, understand. Thanks for answering.