TPM and AOTC are much more straightforward narratives with a lot less going on. ROTS has a whole section of the movie devoted to what’s basically various simultaneous chess matches going on on Coruscant. Most of these scenes in this section have little direct connective tissue to other scenes, which makes them really easy to move around. AOTC is also this in the middle, but obviously to a lesser extent. Moving stuff in ROTS can significantly change the meaning of scenes through context, whereas only the love plot in AOTC is really affected in meaning by restructuring.

Very interesting to think about them all from a more general fan editing perspective. It’s kind of funny to think that TPM is probably the most fan edited movie ever, because I think it’s the least improvable of the three.