westo4

Hi Smudger!

I finally got around to watching your Episode IX and I have some thoughts I wanted to share.

Overall I think the technical aspects of the transitions between both the original episodes and scenes work great (I made some notes during the movie, I will list them later on). Congrats on a job well done! I wanted to start this off on a positive note, because I do think this is quite an achievement to be proud of. The story is quite cohesive when put together. I hadn’t watched the Ahsoka Alone arc since it had come out, so it was nice to see how that blended in with the Siege of Mandalore arc.

However I must say this wasn’t my cup of tea, and by no fault of your own. The Ahsoka Alone arc is just so weak, even in this trimmed form, that I found it ruined what came after. I made it to Maul’s capture and had to quit for now. I just couldn’t enjoy it like I did on my regular watches of those episodes. Because the first arc is so unfocused (things just… happen), the Siege felt very random and rushed as well. I truely love the ideas you put into this, from starting with the TOTJ episode to showing Ahsoka seeing the light in the Jedi Order again, adding Padmé’s funeral and Barris’s recruitment (which I haven’t gotten to yet). It all works on paper, but watching it I simply wasn’t enjoying it anymore. I do want to check out the later half of the movie at some point, because I think the added material can really make that shine brighter, but for now it’s sadly a DNF.

Below are the notes I made (there are in fact only 3, over the course of 1:36:00 I watched. Impressive!):
00:00:00 - LucasFilm logo is barely visible, is it meant to show up this early?
00:00:57 - “to” missing, “In a desperate bid TO defend their ranks,…”
00:05:05 - Transition is a bit jarring (might be in the source material though?)

It was never promised, but I’m still intrigued to see the movie you were planning out. It probably will never happen, and fair to you honestly you’ve already done an amazing job regardless, but I’m just curious to see how well it would work with the different story arcs blended together.

smudger9 said:

TOTE Devoted: Bariss and the other inquisitors are introduced to Vader.
Final Clone Wars scene of Vader and Imperial troops exploring the wrecked Venator.

Might be a stupid idea, but have you considered switching the final two scenes?
In my mind it would work as following: After Padmé’s funeral Anakin hears about what happened to Ahsoka, he goes to look for her. She’s dead, all ties to his old life are over. Cue Bariss and the other Inquisitors awaiting their new leader Vader, the true beginning of a new era.
I do understand how great of a closing shot the CW ending is though, so I understand keeping it as well. Either way I’m so stoked to see what you’ve come up with!

Just watched the first episode and it was great! I mean this in the best way possible: I never noticed the audio was changed. It felt like someone scored it professionally.

EddieDean said:

Sense check please!

I’ve made a major update to the spreadsheet, trying to make it absolutely clear for people which episodes to watch based on their preferences. There’s a new set of content at the top left to this effect. Can you guys please sense-check it and see if it clarifies things?

(Right now it just distinguishes usefully between Core and Filoni-only episodes, but this’ll be more useful once I plug in the ‘bonus’ ones.)

Also, are you guys able to sort the table yourselves? If so, try sorting by episode number!

It makes sense to me personally, but I’m used to how you structure the project now. It might be helpful to get some insight from people who experience the sheet for the first time, because I feel like it could be a bit of an information overload… or not. If it’s problematic it might help to merge the two expanded tiers, since the dinstinction between those is probably the least clear out of all four of them.

Sorting is possible by right-clicking on the letter of a column, if that’s the way you’re refering to, though I doubt most people would go through the hastle. It’s most helpful right now when you sort by colour, so that you get all the Mando cut episodes underneath each other for example. That’s quite a neat feature. The sheet is automatically sorted by episode number already 😉

homelyjedi said:

i can’t seem to get a response from smudger9. i want to watch the mandalorian episodes. does anyone know someway i can reach him, or see the episodes?

They haven’t been online in a while, just try to exercise some patience. They’ll be back.

EddieDean said:

• What do we think about the Ventress line in New Padawan referencing her past with Anakin? It’s not perfect lipsync but I borrowed this idea directly from Smudger because I thought it referenced their past nicely.

I thought it sounded quite odd as well tbh. I know that it’s in reference to the 2D episode, but it just took me out of it when I watched the episode.

The 2D episode is getting retconned soon anyway, with the novel Star Wars: Brotherhood promising the first canon meet-up between Kenobi and Ventress, possibly Anakin and Ventress too.

Not that I don’t appreciate the effort you put into it, the way you have it now is probably as good as you could make that change work.