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

If Mega is giving you download problems, consider installing jdownloader here. It’s a really incredible downloader program that you’ll probably wanna keep regardless.

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.

    • tymonOP
      2•2 years ago

      You’re very welcome - I hope you enjoy it!

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    @[email protected] 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!

  • freamonEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    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?

    • tymonOP
      1•2 years ago

      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.

  • korethEnglish
    2•2 years 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.

  • MrSebSin
    4•2 years 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!!!

    • tymonOP
      2•2 years ago

      What do you mean? Is it refusing to play, or not letting you download?

        • tymonOP
          3•2 years ago

          That’s very bizarre, I just tested it in two other browsers in private windows and it’s working. Not sure what that’s about.

          I just added an alternate link if you’d like to try.

        • chi-chan~
          4•2 years ago

          Mega is very problematic.

          Once, I had a file I needed to download for work (long story), from late in the evening to VERY early in the morning. I tried 3 OSs (Linux, Android, Windows), 5 browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Tor, Brave, Librewolf), Mega’s extentions, Mega’s app for Windows, Mega’s app for Android, and few free VPNs.

          After I got permission, I tried with my personal Mullvad VPN account. Only *then* I succeeded to download that file…

  • charlieb
    4•2 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years 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! ♥

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

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      • DarraignTheSaneEnglish
        2•2 years 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.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years 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.

    • tymonOP
      3•2 years 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

  • Hyacathusarullistad
    6•2 years 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!

    • tymonOP
      6•2 years ago

      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

      • Hyacathusarullistad
        2•2 years ago

        I’m on kbin.social, which doesn’t have much in the way of dedicated apps yet because it currently lacks an API.

    • tymonOP
      3•2 years ago

      You’re very welcome, hope you dig it!

  • @[email protected]
    17•2 years 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!

  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 years 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. :(