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> The pacing for Ahsoka, for example, is just awful. Feels like they literally asked the actors to drag out the content. They were all over the place with the B
by wharvle 3y ago
> The pacing for Ahsoka, for example, is just awful. Feels like they literally asked the actors to drag out the content. They were all over the place with the Boba Fett series.
It’s so incredibly drawn out that the best version of Ahsoka is likely to be a fan edit currently in the works (by an editor with a good track record) who’s aiming to come in under 3 hours. It’ll assuredly be strictly an improvement. There have already been a couple attempts because the show’s so obviously and painfully bloated. The shortest is around two hours and reviews were positive.
Obi Wan’s at least as bad. It could be half its length and nothing of (even under generous accounting) value would be lost.
Most of the Disney Marvel shows also burn screen time like it’s free. Not that Netlix’s were any better about that, aside from one or two total seasons out of the entire effort.
IDK if this is somehow cheaper for them, writing 3-5 episodes of content and streeeetching it to 8-10 episodes, or what. They still have to have stuff on screen, so I wouldn’t think it’d save them much.
- ctippett 3y agoIt's worth mentioning the quality for fan-made edits can be, and often are, remarkably high. The only version of Obi-Wan I've seen is a fan edit by Kai Patterson (Obi-Wan Kenobi: The Patterson Cut [1]), which condensed the whole series into one 2.5h long episode/film. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi:_The_Patterson_Cut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi:_The_Patterson_...
- sotix 3y agoOn this topic, is there a definitive fan edit for The Hobbit? That’s also too dragged out over 3 movies.
- shiroiuma 3y agoThere are several very good ones. The older ones like The Tolkein Edit were good early attempts, but the quality is bad (720p IIRC). My current favorite is the "M4 Book Edit" version. It's 1080p I think, and does some interesting things, such as editing the scene where the archer guy shoots Smaug with the killing arrow. In the original movies, he uses his son's shoulder to aim, which is cheesy and kills the suspension of disbelief; in the M4 Book Edit version, they actually edited the video to replace his son with a stone wall.