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Hands down the best of Smudger's three Clone Wars edits (so far). The story flows incredibly well and despite being two story arcs it successfully makes it all feel part of one bigger narrative (introducing Cad Bane midway through the Ryloth arc certainly helped this). The overarching theme of children helped. By choosing Ryloth you get Ahsoka continuing to grow as well as the clones and their young Twi'lek ally which helps to connect to the final story of the Force sensitive children - very well thought out! While the final part - the hunt for the eponymous Children of the Force - in the final section of the movie felt a little rushed this is hardly the fault of the editor and it does him justice that he was able to weave in so many other ideas that matched the title he had given this edit anyway.

From a technical standpoint there were no moments where reconstructed dialogue to transition between stories stood out - something I know is a challenge in putting a variety of normally loosely connected episodes together. Honestly, from an audio and visual perspective the movie flowed so wonderfully. I have so much credit for Smudger for being able to pull this off. It genuinely felt like I was watching one single story.

Highly recommended and I can't wait until Episode IV comes along!