Thanks! And I totally understand what you’re saying. I don’t think it could work for every edit, but I think it might work for some. I’ll have to try to put it together sometime and see if it could work at all.
And you’re right, I didn’t realize just how many scenes there were in this part of the movie until now. Honestly I think it is sort of a side effect of George waiting to tell the bulk of the story until the third movie in the trilogy.
It’s honestly the section where 80% of the film’s problems lie. The rest of the movie is pay off for stuff that should have but didn’t occur in that section, which you’re definitely right is partly because of the last minute cram nature of the trilogy.