I’m a professional film and TV editor. In between jobs, I recut the Kenobi show from a weak 6-hour miniseries to a strong 2-hour movie (including full sound & score remixing via split-audio I managed to get).
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My goal for this redux was to create a tight, entertaining adventure story from the original assets.
Unlike the Patterson cut, or other fan-edits, I did not add any external assets (with one tiny exception that I’m sure you’ll all notice, ha). Adding external assets from other films and shows (or original VFX) tends to break visual unity, and in my opinion is a glaringly obvious addition. The work by other fan-edits is very impressive, but would not fit with the goal of this project.
The Boonta Eve Redux is comprised of the original show itself, but pared-down, shaped, and made strong.
That said, it’s important to note that no amount of re-editing can fix fundamental story problems. In my opinion, the entire existence of Kenobi is a rather unfortunate misadventure, driven almost wholly by Disney wanting to push content for content’s sake. I feel strongly that having Kenobi and Vader encounter each other between RotS and ANH is, for many reasons, a critical mistake; likewise, having Kenobi and Leia encounter each other is almost as bad.
However, this re-edit addresses some of the most glaring oversights and mistakes of the original show, while highlighting its few true successes. Ultimately, I feel that it’s a major improvement.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the cut. Feel free to share, create torrents, etc.
Thanks for watching!
UPDATE: I’ve uploaded a more-compressed (but visually great) version of the Boonta Eve cut to the MEGA folder. It’s just under 5gb and should download much more easily. I’m building a torrent encode currently and will link to that within the next day.
Oh MAN literally the entire time I was wishing it was 2 hours instead. I’m going to watch it, thank you so much!
Hey dude!!
The file is still downloading via mega, but I just wanted to throw down a kudos!!
Looking forward to watching your re-cut and I’ll share my thoughts after watching!!
Just curious, did you manage to include the redone VFX by pixeljoker95? That really would put this edit over the top!!
Anyways, cool beans and thanks 🙏 for sharing.
Thanks very much! I really hope you enjoy it.
I did not include pixeljoker’s VFX - when I began this edit I set a limitation on myself to see if I could extract the story only from the original assets. I cheated once - which I’m sure everyone will notice, ha - but otherwise, this edit includes only materials that actually aired.
Pixeljoker’s stuff is pretty great though!
Dir sir, madam or otherwise.
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Wish there was a way to bookmark posts without commenting, but because there isn’t I want to make sure I say thanks for the effort you put into this!
Thanks so much! Also, in case I’m mistaken, I believe there actually is a way to save posts, or at least there appears to be one for me. Do you see a Star button on the post? That saves posts for me, not sure if that’s a feature on all lemmy instances
I’m looking forward to watching this.
Unrelated: anyone know if the RotS Super Cut has been updated since adding content from the last season of Clone Wars?
