MalàStrana said:
I’m thinking about another spot to place the scene: between Anakin assignment and the plot to destroy the Jedi scene:

morning scene: Obi-Wan informs Anakin he has a meeting with Palpy

afternoon: meeting with Palpy: Anakin gets a new assignment

night scene: Anakin and Padmé small talk 'cause they are happy right now (Anakin has now many things to be glad about: a beautiful wife, the coming birth of his child, he’s going to enter the Jedi Council with the blessing of his friend the Chancellor… and he’s got an awesome apartment downtown: the guy is happy to say the least) (it would even be better to make a twilight/night transition like the one seen in Episode I)

dawn scene (plot to destroy the Jedi);

the rest goes during day time of the same day (rebellion scene at noon; gunner scene/Anakin and Padmé political scene at twilight; Anakin has the nightmare and meets Palpy at the Opera during the night).

This very slight restructure would also allow to take a breath during the chess game between Palpy and the Jedi Council which is (due to Lucas way of making this movie) sometimes too “operatic” and “functional” and which seems to go very fast within the very same day (that way it would seem it takes 2 days).

Well, thinking again about it and… I’m slightly wrong about that. Here is the best version I can think of:

Day One:

morning scene: Obi-Wan informs Anakin he has a meeting with Palpy
afternoon: meeting with Palpy: Anakin gets a new assignment
twilight: Yoda, Obi and Mace: “plot to destroy the Jedi” deleted scene
night: balcony scene: Anakin and Padmé small talk to be inserted here (they don’t talk about Anakin being appointed Palpy’s representative because it’s something Anakin keeps for himself like he does for other things - the slaughtering of the sand people, his nightmares about Padmé - in Hal’s PT).

Day Two:

dawn: Anakin is apppointed to the Jedi council but he’s not a master yet
later the same morning (around noon/afternoon): deleted scene with Padmé and cie
noon/afternoon (or middle day, hard to say): Anakin and Obi talk about spying on Palpy
afternoon: Gunner sequence scene (“I don’t trust him”)
twilight: Anakin and Padmé political fight
night: Anakin has the nightmare and meets Palpy at the Opera

I think it would be perfect for the pacing and the clarity of the passing of time in EpIII to have the balcony scene between the “plot to destriy the Jedi” deleted scene and Anakin at the Jedi Council, otherwise in your edit it seems that all of that happens in one big day (there is the mention of “this morning” in the rebellion deleted scene though). You also get a little moment of nice and naive happy interaction between Anakin and Padmé before it begins to fall apart with the Jedi Council scene.

Your thoughts ?