So many things to comment on and my DVD player is rejecting my copy of "The Clone War" so I cannot yet give the detailed comments I intend to.
But I want to toss out an initial note, if I may:
I want someone to emphasize how important (and overlooked) Anakin's bad dreams are to understanding him. If we understood at the beging of AOTC that he was having accurate premonitions that his mother is being tortured, but Obi Wan and the council were preventing him from going to her -- then everything he did would make more sense.
This concept should be really valuable in re-editing this film. It'll make almost anything Anakin does feel more natural because we would know up front how difficult it is for him every day to stop himself from running off to his mom.
I think this can be done, but I want to give specific notes when I get my disc working again -- assuming it's even interesting to you.