FANTASTIC NEWS TO SHARE
Somehow Youtube have cleared my second episode, “Usagi vs Casey: Don of Justice”, which means I can premiere it on the platform this coming Saturday July 6th!
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In December 1993, the season finale of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Seventh season ‘Shredder Triumphant’ aired.
It would prove to be the final episode to feature the traditional Fred Wolf Animation Look and Feel that had become the benchmarks of the franchise.
In 1994, the ‘Red Sky’ era would commence, bringing with it a new tone and scope to the show, giving the Turtles more of a harder-edged attitude.
The days of the happy go lucky Fred Wolf era were to take a permanent back seat.
Until now.
Several decades later, we wind the clock back, before the skies ever turned red, and we ask the question, ‘did they ever have to at all?’
What if the eighth season of the Fred Wolf cartoon had retained the same look, feel, and charm of the first seven seasons?
NOW…THE STORY CONTINUES
Picking up exactly where ‘Shredder Triumphant’ left off, Krang, Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop on the run. Krang still has his android body and all of its might. Shredder has his cunning, and Bebop and Rocksteady have their strength.
And as for the Turtles? They still have their wits, their quips, and their passion for Pizza.
New adventures, new ingredients, this is TMNT ‘93!
Taking a leaf out of Transformers Fanatic Films’ book for their unofficial Transformers G1 continuation, I am recycling footage from across the span of the original TMNT series to bring it to life with the aid of an A.I assisted voice cast.
My experiences with Elevenlabs are proving more creatively rewarding, especially when I add my own editing skills into the mix. Having re-edited several episodes of Captain Planet utilising A,.I, I have grown even more ambitious.
I am happy to announce that preview samples will be available through my profile on Spoutible.
First two episodes (of a planned trilogy) are available now.
Episode 1 is about 15 minutes, episode 2 is a lot shorter at just six.
PM me for links
Right, so in an update to this, I’ve had a few exciting new ideas, but I’m half-way through my current draft and to implement them would mean ditching what I have, so I may just make two versions and then determine through test audiences which is better.
In the meantime, the last scene of the first draft is more or less complete, so if anyone would like to preview that bit and give it feedback, feel free to PM me.
Just remember, it’s only the ending, not the full film, and it’s very brief, most of it is taken up by the credits
Got some interesting answers over on that reddit. Will work it into what I’ve got cooking!
Thanks, I’ve directed the question there.
Thanks for taking an interest.
…I guess the silence on the matter means that sort of thing hasn’t happened yet?
Anyway, here’s what I intend for my opening text crawl:
As the battle against the SEPERATIST movement rages on, the fearless JEDI KNIGHTS of the REPUBLIC contend with the rise of a new threat to the REPUBLIC…
With COUNT DOOKU missing in action, GENERAL GRIEVOUS has taken command of the separatist armies and begun a dangerous advance on the galaxy…
As the dream of lasting peace slips further and further away, for one troubled Jedi padawan, ANAKIN SKYWALKER, it all too easily manifests into a nightmare…
Quick question to ask the devotees of the lore
Has a Sith lord or apprentice, ever, at any point, canonically ever been able to possess a Jedi master’s mind? And if so, what methods?
(And as a little tease, this part doesn’t involve Anakin)
This sounds incredibly interesting. I’m excited to hear more details on the restructure. Like does Anakin follow the council into hiding or does he remain at Palpatine’s side, “staying loyal to the republic” until he changes his mind about Palpatine? In any case, the project sounds fascinating.
Thanks for the interest, it is quite a herculean task, and one I didn’t think was possible until I rewatched Episode III over the weekend and saw promise in the idea
In the first few test drafts, Anakin doesn’t go through much temptation, but it felt like there was no conflict and it could easily have been a day in the life for him and Obi-Wan rather than something more climatic that spoke to Anakin’s indecisiveness and morality, so in later drafts he’s tempted more and he goes through more trials, I don’t want to say too much just yet because I have to be certain some sequences work the way I’m theorizing,
I’ve tested something out that I thought for sure would need tweaking in the the first act though and that worked very well, so with luck what I’m building next for this matches my decades old memory.
I got some suggestions on reddit on whether or not I should change the title of the edit so it doesn’t give away that it’s a happy ending
Suggestions included “Trial of Skywalker”
What do you guys think?
IT BEGINS
Progress is going well, first draft was a little shaky, as they always are, I was building it off of remembering scenes and ran into a few narrative hiccups, but the good news is I think I have an 87 or so minute runtime for it, will try to extend it to a tidy 90
Lately I’ve begun brainstorming a way of turning the darkest, most downbeat Star Wars prequel of them all into a feelgood movie that leaves the characters more or less in a happy place…sort of.
Anakin will be haunted by a potential turn to the dark side and the potential loss of Padme in childbirth through his dreams, and there are times in the film where you will see him presented with choices to go down, but through it all, even in moments of weakness, Anakin chooses not to act upon them. Palpatine is captured, Dooku is disabled and captured, Grevious is killed
It’s not all light smiles though, Order 66 still happens, and Jedi are still killed, it just happens much earlier in the movie so as to set up the council fleeing into the outer rims, setting up the movie’s climatic act, which just so happens to the first act of Revenge of the Sith!
I’m calling this “The Triumph of Skywaker”
I haven’t touched Bond in a while, not since I tried to do a 3-in-1 of Skyfall/Spectre/No Time To Die that, in retrospect, I don’t think quite worked or made sense, so I thought I’d try something simpler and focus only on No Time To Die.
The goal here to to simplify and reduce the amount of time consuming filler or scenes and moments that are later recapped in the film by the characters, acting as if we hadn’t already seen most of it, this allows me to remove whole scenes and you won’t feel lost if they aren’t there because of all the exposistion.
Madeline’s childhood flashbacks are gone, and instead we now open the movie on Bond’s mission for Felix and the CIA, after the titles, we cut to Bond arriving in London to meet with M. From there, the movie runs along as normal until the final fight, where Bond survives, opens the hatches, and escapes the island with the submersible aircraft.
The trap for Bond at Vesper’s grave has been repurposed for the ending, with Bond’s visit now entirely peaceful and giving Bond his emotional closure at last, tying all the movies back to how it began.
I’m currently putting the finishing touches to a feature cut of X-Men 97, but it will be a most ‘unique’ edit, in that I won’t be using much of the Zero Tolerance or Fatal Attractions storylines (to delve into them would make the edit too long). instead, we focus mostly on the Maddie/Jean drama, the trial of Magneto, the massacre of Genosha, Storm’s journey to reclaim her powers, and lastly a big final battle between the X-Men and the Sentinels.
From what you can guess from that last bit…yes, Gambit’s going to survive Genosha and join the X-Men alongside Rogue. Rogue chooses Remy but does not join Magneto’s side to avenge him.
There’s a minimal use of Sunspot, he appears in the opening rescue scene, again in the “Fire Made Flesh” segment, and then again talking to Jubilee in the mid-credits scene, the post-credits will set up Zero Tolerance and reveal Magneto also survived Genosha.
Timeline/Change List
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And that’s it, we’re done
Here’s the cut list, since I’ve yet to add one (and just did so for the IFDB entry)
-Altered dialogue between Blight and Planet while Planet lays on the operating table in “Deadly Ransom”
-Added entirely original scenes with Blight and MAL after Planet is captured and then later freed from “The Conqueror”
-Added a scene between Blight and MAL revealing the true nature of the Hate power is that of Lust from “Mission To Save Earth Part One”
-Cut some shots of Blight and MAL from “Mission to Save Earth Part One” to avoid repeated shots when the altered scene plays
-Altered Blight’s threat to the Planeteers in “Mission to Save Earth Part Two”, and later altered dialouge towards the end just after Pollution’s rings are destroyed.
-Altered dialogue for Captain Planet just before Pollution retreats back to the rings towards the end of the episode to indicate the reason for Pollution’s destruction is tied to Blight’s capacity for love.
I decided to do a few little fun A.I-assisted Captain Planet edits by adding or ‘altering’ scenes from various episodes to give the show something of a classic TV trope: The hero and the baddie having a flirtatious love/hate relationship. Since one for Doctor Blight and Planet didn’t exist in the show, I had to make it up myself!
An example of ‘altering’ a scene is included here (Deadly Ransom)
An example of ‘adding’ a scene can be found here (The Conqueror)
Currently working a little on “Mission to Save Earth Part 1”, and added this brief scene revealing blight kept the truth about the hate ring a secret, and that she opted for an altogether more toxic dig on the “Heart” motif altogether to reflect her love for Captain Planet, and that she is happy he can’t be summoned, as she believes Pollution would have killed him
I had originally intended to do a move length version of this, but found the work too overbearing and went for a standard tv length episode instead.
For a show that’s celebrating it’s 30th anniversary and may potentially be tying up all it’s loose ends before a major continuity overhaul in a few years with the Johnathan Entwhistle-helmed reboot, you’d think Power Rangers might have wanted to go out with something worthy of those three decades worth of entertainment than bringing Zedd down to Earth through simple conversation. So I’ve taken to the editing suite to correct that.
The solution comes in merging this episode with the events of another big crossover episode in the show’s recent history, the Beast Morphers story ‘Grid Connection’, which guest-stars Jason as well as the MMPR team, so by bringing them in we tie everything neatly full circle
Lord Zedd no longer has a ‘fantasy’ of Rita, she is real, I took their scene together and placed it just before Jason and the Dino Charge Rangers are confronted by Goldar Maximus. This also allows “The End” to serve as the unofficial prequel to “Once & Always”, the way fans prefer.
I replaced all scenes of Evox piloting the Geo Zord with footage of Zedd in his command room from Cosmic Fury. Andrew Liang was the original choice to replace Robert Axelrod as Zedd, and he had to step down due to online bullying, so I find it fitting I use all of Evox’s lines for Zedd here.
Edit is available now. DM me for a link.
Changed my mind on doing a feature-length cut, it will now be a standard 26 minute episode. You can close this thread.
I have now reuploaded this edit, so you can DM me for links.
The 30th anniversary series of Power Rangers went out with both a banger of a series and a whimper of a finale. So I’m looking to beef it up a bit for the feature-length recut using a slightly reworked episode of Beast Morphers as well as the Power Rangers/Street Fighter short film to weave a new narrative and hopefully provide the series with a worthier conclusion.
Despite a lot going on, there are still several episodes that I would consider ‘filler’ or ones that could do with significant scaling down to get to the point quicker.
Those episodes are:
The Beast Morphers episode I am using is Grid Connection, and if you know anything about that episode, you’ll know where I’m going with the rejiggered ending. Power Rangers will close out it’s 30th anniversary with all the dinosaur themed Rangers going up against Zedd, Goldar and the Geo-Zord.
While browsing Youtube for signs of fan-generated Transformer content, I stumbled on some rare commentary tracks from Transformers superfan Chris McFeely, which he did as a favour for a couple of friends over on the Moonbase Two community. While the audio commentaries are still avail bile on the Moonbase 2 website’s archives, the visuals they accompanied remain in pretty bad quality on Youtube.
These commentaries I don’t believe are present on any DVD release that he has contributed to (some of you TF fans may remember he did the commentaries for the Takara trilogy and the Transformers movie)
I downloaded the commentaries and attached them of downloading those commentaries and seeing if I can attach them to higher quality copies of the episode
The episode are
-Seachange (season two)
-Call of the Primatives (season three)
-Carnage In C-Minor (season three)
All three have been uploaded to Internet Archive. DM for link any time.
Wow, didn’t think anyone would be interested.
I’ve sent you a link.
Is there any chance this is still available? Thanks either way.
I get a lot of requests for it so I’ll probably be re-uploading it soon. Just need to figure out how to make space for it
Thanks for the feedback my friend, always a pleasure to get these and suggestions on how to improve. Those all sound like great ideas, the danger room sequence from Apocalypse would have fit there quite well I’d have to agree and would be book-ended when we head into the future!
And boy did I miss a trick with a Logan forest fight
I’ll definitely have to see if I can start this up again with suggestions like this in mind, it’s a fun concept I’ve already went back to a few times now, always changing bits about them