KENOBI - The Boonta Eve Redux
KENOBI - The Boonta Eve Redux
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).
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.
Oh MAN literally the entire time I was wishing it was 2 hours instead. I'm going to watch it, thank you so much!
Thanks! I hope you like it!
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.
It is a great pleasure of mine to announce that you were granted the rank of the Master.
While the title itslef grants no privileges in the universe at large, it is a sign of recognition, that those who matter will respect.
May you have a good life and may the Force be with you.
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!
I'm using Connect (mobile app) and can save. What are you using?
I'm on kbin.social, which doesn't have much in the way of dedicated apps yet because it currently lacks an API.
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
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.
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Bummer ending to the 3rd Sister's story arc though. :(
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?
I’m commenting so I can find this later! Thanks
Hell yeah
Me too. Is there another way of saving posts here?
Depends on what instance you’re in. On some like Lemmy.world, you can save, but in kbin, the same functionality is called boost.
Don’t mind me, I’m just here for the food.
Same
Incredible, adding it to the SW blu-ray collection if I can figure out how to dl without the mega app lol
Maybe try yt-dlp with the Vimeo link. It worked great for me.
yt-dlp "https://vimeo.com/822616851" --video-password HELLOTHEREAlso, many thanks for this production! ♥
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
Making a account just for this ty again
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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.
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.
Commenting so I can find and watch this later!! Thanks for sharing!
You're very welcome - I hope you enjoy it!
Watching it right now as I go to sleep and will re-watch it tomorrow morning while at work 😂
Looks good so far ❤️
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!!!
I think I might just watch this!
I hope you like it!
The link and password work for me. THANK YOU! THIS IS AWESOME!
Thanks!! Hope you enjoy it!
Nice
Looks great, thank you for sharing!!
You're very welcome, hope you dig it!
This is amazing, doing the characters some justice here. How it should have been, great edit!
Thanks so much!
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.
Just started watching this. It's very impressive. I never actually watched the TV show - I've only another 2hr edit to compare this with, and so far, it's noticeably better than that one.
@tymon@lemm.ee is the audio supposed to be mixed in Stereo or Mono? I see that there is a Stereo track but both tracks are identical (no Stereo separation). Thanks for making this! This fixes the one main complaint that I had with the series!
I'm sorry I tried Mega and it had me create an account and now wants me to subscribe with $12/month to download and jdownloader is rate limited "509 Bandwidth" can you please upload it somewhere else? Is this spam just to sign up for Mega?
Do you actually think I'd go to all the unpaid labor of editing a mediocre show for the sole benefit of getting a few people on Lemmy to be frustrated enough with MEGA to sign up?
I don't know why jdownloader isn't working, but I'll see if I can compress the size of the export more.
