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!

  • Nix@merv.news
    1·
    1 year ago

    Downloding from mega is not working. Even trying to download with jdownloader causes a bandwidth exceeded error. Can you upload it to google drive until you figure out making a torrent of it?

    • tymon@lemm.eeOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ll try to compress the file size to below 5gb if possible - it’s currently just over 9gb - and i’ll look into another hosting solution. Can’t do Google Drive - it would get immediately flagged - but I’ll see what I can do.

            • tymon@lemm.eeOPM
              2·
              1 year ago

              Hey - I’m currently doing a super long encode of the cut to be more torrent-friendly, BUT: I just uploaded a more compressed and still great-looking version of the cut to MEGA, it’s under 5gb and should be easily downloadable. If it’s not, I’ll update you when the torrent encode is done.

              • Nix@merv.news
                2·
                1 year ago

                Sweet thanks I’ll try and see the torrent for a while when it’s ready

  • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Just finished a watch, incredible job pulling all of the great parts from the show together into a very convincing “movie”.

    There were a few (like literally one or two) rough / noticeable jump-like cuts which I imagine were just unavoidable with the source material and what you needed to do with those scenes.

    Overall this is a fantastic edit, you should be very proud of this and I have already recommended it to a lot of my friends and will continue to do so (probably in lieu of ever suggesting the show itself lol).