Octorox said:
-A Plot to Destroy the Jedi?I agree there is a repetitive aspect to this scene with the “situation room during Grievous meeting with Obi” scene, but there is also a more layered concern about Palpatine. This scene, placed after the - long - overture was very good to set the mood of an uprising coup d’état from Palpatine. I think you should have inserted it (but I assume you’ll do that for your “real” edit of Episode III).
Yeah, I like this scene too, but I felt that with the war room scene unedited, it didn’t really work, and since this is supposed to be purely an extended edition, I didn’t want to do that. It will probably be in my full fan edit of episode III.
I’m hoping in your fanedit you pick to keep either the deleted scene (Plot to Destroy the Jedi) or the war room theatrical scene. Either one or the other because in L8wtrs he keeps both and the repetitive dialogue is so obvious that I feel it really detracts from the experience whereas in Hal’s he inserted the deleted scene and removed the war room scene which did not have any issues of repetitive dialogue and it improved upon the theatrical. Not saying if you should include the deleted scene over the war room scene but I think it would be best to decide on which one to keep rather than doing both.
Sorry for being off topic from the thread but wanted to throw in my 2 cents 😃
Late reply, but working on my ROTS edit, I’ve decided to use both scenes (for a lot of reasons), and I’ve managed to cut it down to the point where there is only one repeated line (“the dark side of the Force surrounds the Chancellor”), which I’ve justified to myself as the first time Mace is saying his thoughts only to Yoda and Obi-wan, the second time he’s revealing it to the council. I think it works, but honestly not 100%. I think I’ll need to watch my edit all the way through to determine.