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).

Click here to watch!

If the above link doesn’t work, watch here instead!

Password: HELLOTHERE

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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.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    1 year ago

    Oh MAN literally the entire time I was wishing it was 2 hours instead. I’m going to watch it, thank you so much!

  • aubertlone@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • tymon@lemm.eeOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      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!

  • Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • Hux@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    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?

  • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Wow, that was much better. Really cut down the bloat and kept the pace up. I particularly liked how you handled the forest chase scene with Leia’s kidnappers.

    spoiler

    Bummer ending to the 3rd Sister’s story arc though. :(

  • MrSebSin@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

    Loved it and thank you very much for sharing your hard work! Technically a smooth edit all the way through. My only nitpick out of the whole thing is a content one. The scene where Leia runs/plays in the forrest (12:50), felt very interruptive to the solemness of what’s going on Tatooine. Otherwise this is a fantastic fan edit and hope to see more of your work!!!

  • ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Watching it right now as I go to sleep and will re-watch it tomorrow morning while at work 😂

    Looks good so far ❤️

  • charlieb@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Incredible, adding it to the SW blu-ray collection if I can figure out how to dl without the mega app lol

    • Skia@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Maybe try yt-dlp with the Vimeo link. It worked great for me.

      yt-dlp "https://vimeo.com/822616851" --video-password HELLOTHERE

      Also, many thanks for this production! ♥

    • tymon@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Hell yeah, hope you like it!

      FWIW - the Mega App is a pretty light client and I usually uninstall it immediately with Revo once I’m done, ha

      • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for the tip, that app works great. I’ve long been annoyed with websites that throw up arbitrary download limits and such, and this works like a charm.

      • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Aww damn, I literally just found out about then stood up a docker container with JDownloader-2 today. Great to know that it works for Mega, because I refuse to install that app.

  • koreth@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This does feel like a real improvement. Nicely done! In the unlikely event I’m introducing someone new to Star Wars in the future, I’ll be sure to point them at this edit instead of the whole series.

    One thing that’s probably unavoidable given the source material but bugged me a bit is that because each of the original episodes had a climax, the edit doesn’t have a story structure where the tension builds up steadily to a peak; it kind of alternates between hitting the gas and hitting the brakes.

    Also, minor nitpick: the miniseries was 6 episodes, but some of them were short so the runtime was more like 4.5 hours.