I’d love to see what you’ve done with this series. I think I asked you for the link to the first part a while ago, but I think you didn’t saw it. Can you send it to me when you can, please? 😃
I have seen all three in one session. What a great achievement, what a good idea and what a satisfying way to execute it. I have never liked Rogue One very much, I’ve always seen it as a film that was not able to explore what it really wanted and that had to compensate for those shortcomings with easter eggs and somewhat cheap references.
However, I loved Andor and it seemed like a perfect redemption to that story, so this edit makes me very excited and seems like a perfect way to bring the intentions of the two works closer together. I agree that the difference in direction and editing with Andor is noticeable, but with this being sort of its “final arc” I can accept the faster pace.
Great work.
Wow, I love this idea. Can I have a link please? 😃
Another regular fan here. Can I have a link to the first part, please? 😃
I realized that I didn’t leave you a review of this one. Great job as always, Smudger. At first it hurt me to see the Corellia part removed but, as always happens with your edits, you usually cut things that I really like but I end up understanding the reason for doing so.
This one in particular, I really liked seeing it with the format you propose of a saga of The New Republic. Very much in favor of having a narrative that is as unfragmented as possible between series that will later have points of connection with each other.
As always, I’d also love a link. Thanks in advance!
As always, I’d love to see what you have up to with the current cut 😃
I loved this first cut.
Ignoring the abrupt sound cuts and small errors (I hear the cut scene of the villains in the destroyed temple during the Sabine and Ahsoka one after the reunion), I feel that as a first act the rhythm flows well and that it is a model introduction to a film, without a rushed pace but also feeling light and pleasant.
I also really like how you have resolved Sabine’s injury, I think it looks wonderfully well and that it can be understood that she has been injured without it being something as serious as what is seen in the series.
I haven’t been able to see the clip with the two medbay scenes combined, but it also seems like a great idea to me.
As a silly detail, I feel that the cut of the shot in which the New Republic cruiser appears is very noticeable
after the opening crawl. I suppose you will polish these details tho.
On the other hand, have you decided 100% to make just one movie for the entire season? I really felt this sixth episode like the beginning of a second part of something, with Ahsoka’s arc quite closed in the previous one. The second film may be considerably shorter than the first, but narratively it suits me better divided into two films.
I would love to see that first cut! Could I have a link please? 😃
Honestly, I don’t care what approach Smudger has decided to take with this edit. Having seen all of his previous work with live-actions series I have blind confidence in his judgment when deciding what stays and what doesn’t. He always cuts things that seem essential to me until I watch his movies straight away and I understand that that’s not the case. He simply has a gift.
Looking forward with infinite desire to see his work with Ahsoka.
Good work with those transitions 😃
I think intuitively we have made them very similar. Very good material to watch a marathon before the fifth episode!
Hello, this is my edit of the Ahsoka series so far. I want to change things because I’m not convinced about ending it on a cliffhanger like that, I’m open to you telling me parts that could be cut or edited to make it lighter. The idea is, if possible, to also include chapter 5 and reduce the footage so far.
The edit includes:
-The first four chapters together.
-Music from The Old Republic, Rogue One and some movie from the saga throughout the entire movie.
-Smooth transitions between chapters.
-Classic opening crawl and saga-style credits.
-Quite aggressive and experimental color correction.
Runtime: 2:34:44
Feel free to comment if you want a link 😃
Hey, I would like to see this! Looks good and want to see those episode transitions 😃
I’m working on an edit myself, but I want to wait for the fifth chapter to see if I can fit it in and give it a less cliffhanger-based ending. Also, I think mine is going to be much less conservative (I’m including the SWTOR soundtrack in certain scenes and cutting others quite a bit).
Could I have a link, please? Thanks in advance!
Smudger9, did you maybe consider combining Ahsoka and “The Mandalorian” into one film series?
It seems eventually all those shows will lead to one big crossover event - Dave Filoni’s movie.
Plus, Ahsoka already appeared in your previous “Mando” films and Thrawn’s return was hinted there before.
So, if you made them all just “Star Wars” films, this one would just be a continuation of some storylines that started in the previous stories.
Absolutely. Lucasfilm updated their Eras timeline this week so I’ll probably go with “The New Republic” as the logo for these. I’ll wait for the end of the Ahsoka series before committing to this and I’ll also need to tinker with my Mando S2 to include the now essential Ahsoka/Morgan confrontation.
EP1: Mando S1
EP2: Mando S2
EP3: Ahsoka S1 P1
EP4: Ahsoka S2 P2
EP5: BOBF
EP6: Mando S3
EP1: Mando S1
EP2: Mando S2
EP3: Ahsoka S1 P1
EP4: Ahsoka S2 P2
EP5: BOBF
EP6: Mando S3Did you consider maybe intercutting Ahsoka with TBOBF and Mando s03 to have one coherent story with the same protagonists?
If I remember correctly, you weren’t 100% happy with the Mando/Ahsoka/Luke stuff being the last act of your third Mando movie.Maybe you could make it the beginning of the -let’s call it-movie4? We have there Ahsoka and Mando meeting, Mando and Grogu reunion and from there, both protagonists, Ahsoka and Mando go their way and in both storylines, the return of Thrawn is heavily mentioned. And in both storylines we have Carson as a recurring character. So maybe it would make sense to make it two movies with Ahsoka and Mando stories intercutting (like the one you did with Boba and Mando) with the big finale being probably the return of the admiral Thrawn.
Or just add the Luke/Ahsoka/Mando part to the movie 4, as a prologue, and then add some scenes from the first episope of “Ahsoka” to your movie edit of Mando s03. You could even end it with a nice cliffhanger, of Baylon and Shin rescuing Morgan and then the next movie could be Ahsoka-centered.
I’m playing with that idea based on Smudger’s edits and I’ve been wanting to open a post about it for a while, but first I wanted to do something really solid. The question is that for now this idea of interconnecting the two stories would only work in a film, because it seems strange to me to make films of two timelines that have nothing to do with each other. But it’s a matter of trying, maybe Smudger will come up with something.
Really looking forward to seeing how this looks after your other edits! I think it’s the series that most lends itself to becoming a “classic” Star Wars movie with all its mannerisms, and at the same time there are quite a few things that can improve the result. I’m quite liking Ahsoka, but like almost everything, I think I’d like it better in a movie format.
I can’t believe I forgot to review this one!
I don’t know if it’s your best work (I think the second season was much more confusing when it came to rearranging it), but it’s certainly the one that most convinces me of how necessary this project is.
Season 3 was a bit of a hit or miss, with some episodes that I didn’t enjoy at all for the first time with this series. I’ve never felt so much like a season needed to be re-edited in some way to work better, and I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with your work.
Without a doubt, this is the best way to see it and I think it is the one that most emphasizes the emotion of everything that happens and the weight of the final victory. In some way, that ending that I feel rushed for a television episode here feels organic and suits me much more as a movie, and I think that undoing the tension of certain things that remain in the air from one chapter to another works better in order to not make false expectations with what is going to happen.
As always, great job!
Can I get a link please? This sounds interesting 😃
It is much more difficult for me to assess these edits than the Mandalorian ones because, unlike that series, this one seems practically flawless from start to finish. Where in the first I see an almost repair work (not because what you omit is not good, but because as a whole I see that not everything contributes to the core of the story), in this one I feel that the objective is to make it work in another medium, and the truth is that I think you succeed.
I have seen the two films this weekend and they have seemed to me to be two thrillers with exquisite pacing (I have not noticed the weight of the three hours at all), with excellent decisions when it comes to managing the plots of the series and the information from the flashbacks, which I think is distributed even better than following the series, at least when doing it week by week.
I think it’s another great job, possibly as movies are better than The Mandalorian and I love the idea of doing a marathon that culminates in Rogue One once the second season is available.
The problem with this season is that we have 4 episodes and for now it doesn’t seem to be about anything in particular. The introductory approach was fixed in the second episode, they have dedicated an entire (and quite long) chapter to asserting that Gideon is coming back and now we have a main character with no firm motivations and Bo-Katan, who does seem to be more restless, completely stopped in the plot without being able to convert them into an active agent. Grogu seems to have a more active role in the plot, but he doesn’t feel any evolution and the flashback is basically the same information that Ahsoka told us in the second season. We know that the plot of the pirates in Nevarro still lies ahead, which also seems secondary in any way, and we have seen a large squad of Ties that “cannot be from an imperial warlord”. A thousand chips thrown into the air and nothing picked up.
In order to translate this into a film, I agree that things will have to be reconsidered and it is difficult to propose it from now on compared to the two previous ones, which, even with very different developments, had a much better focused dramatic axis. Let’s hope that the remaining four make it clearer to us, but for now Favreau’s writing is seeming quite erratic and dysfunctional to me beyond the fact that there are things that I am quite liking.
Well, I think this episode can help the film feel much more choral (I was thinking it could give it some Rogue One vibes) if, as some say, you alternate parts of Pershing’s plot between those of Din and Bo-Katan. I admit that I was watching the chapter and thinking about your edits.
As always, I am speechless with your work and I love how you know how to see what is important in each episode to rescue the necessary information. That being said, I do agree with WitchDR that seeing Grogu and Din reunite for the first time with the purrgil scene doesn’t quite work for me either.
In that sense, I think that the way Grogu appears on the ship in the mandalorian’s ritual scene could work as a “revelation”, or you could still mix the purrgil scene with the final of TBOBF, which I think linked very well with Grogu’s decision in the third film. Maybe make some way that when the N1 goes into turbo mode at Grogu’s request it jumps into hyperspace and spins with the purrgil scene?
Otherwise I find it great! The first episode was almost a reminder of everything that came before with the strange addition of the IG-11 plot, it seems very appropriate to jump to the second almost directly.
Looking at the first chapter (which I agree is quite weak), I think that this season the concept of this series as an anthology with a very marked POV is over. The starts of the previous two seasons were focused on a specific adventure that seeded subplots into the main story, but these 30 minutes almost seem like they were pulled from a longer movie or series. We have been on several planets with several conflicts going on at the same time (pirates, the recovery of IG-11, Din’s redemption as a Mandalorian), with a much more choral plot that makes clear the presence of several characters from previous seasons since the start.
I think that, as they point out here, the quality of Filoni’s works is super variable and seasons have started badly on other occasions. Without going any further, the beginning of this second part of TBB also seemed quite weak to me and has ended up giving great episodes.
That said, conceptually I like Mandalorian much more than Andor and I think that it formally has traits with more personality, but the development of one and the other is light years away. If Andor is much better, it is not for being a more adult series, but because Mandalorian has not managed to give real weight to its conflicts by not daring to take any firm step (the separation of Din and Grogu, the resurrection of characters, etc.) .
Mark me as interested 😃 I would love to see your work after seeing your great results with Mando
Hey, this looks great! I don’t know if the classic Star Wars movie format will suit this series as well as Mando or Clone Wars (I’m referring to the opening crawl and the end credits), but of course something very interesting can come out of joining their plots. For now it seems to me the most solid series of Star Wars, and its impeccable visual section I think it can help a lot to the feeling of being a movie.
Very good those first 30 minutes, I haven’t even noticed the jumps because I watched the first three episodes in a batch. Good sign.
