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Post #595331

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Bingowings
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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13-Sep-2012, 7:57 AM

 

These are special editions.

So I'm with Ady in saying that the PT should be adjusted to match the OT.

The line from Ben should stay.

The PT should be adjusted to match it as much as possible.

The scene above is surplus to requirements, it adds zero value to the OT or to a special edition edit.

Personally, I'd remove the more overt elements of the Anakin/Padme 'romance'.

The acting is terrible and the situation makes no sense and just makes the Jedi look really weird and creepy.

So no wedding, no deliberation about if the romance is wrong or right.

Anakin and Padme's mutual attraction would be obvious.

Her pregnancy would be obvious.

But who the father is could still be a bit of an open question.

She hangs around Bail Organa a lot so maybe things didn't work out between her and Anakin and he is resentful.

The audience should think that maybe Leia is the child and Bail really is her father.

If we see only one delivery the revelation of twins will be a bigger surprise.

That way we can see Anakin fight Obi-Wan and see Padme give birth but still don't know that Luke's father is Vader or that Leia is his sister.

I'm very drawn to the idea of removing Yoda from the PT and reduce him to awe filled mentions.

Having him replaced by another Jedi, preferably a human creates space to inject fresh material of higher story value to replace the stupid material removed.

Ideally Anakin and Padme should be under less focus and become more realistic and easy to care about. So much of what we see them do in the official cuts makes them dislikable (Anakin's entitlement and whining coupled with his child murdering and domestic abuse, Padme's prick teasing and her eventual selfish child denying suicide).

Ian McDiamid does a reasonably good job at playing Palpatine but if he had a Tarkin like character to spread the load it would be easier to lance the worst scenes of ROTS where he acts like Henrietta from Evil Dead 2.

If new characters (particularly Jedi) took up some of the slack the PT would be more about the collapse of the Republic/the rise of the Empire and less of a soap written by a 14yr old boy.