Thanks for resurrecting this thread! I am not sure if you are referring to jarbear’s videos specifically, or my changelist, or both, but I appreciate the thoughts.

I do think I’m going to pull back on a few more radical ideas. I like the idea of using the first-half of the Mustafar scene to set up Vader’s arrival at the end of the battle. Maybe I could give that servant new dialogue regarding Tarkin or the battle. Also, I think it would be helpful to replace Krennic’s shuttle with a regular Imperial shuttle that we see Vader use later in the film in those Mustafar establishing shots. Might be some extra work, but it would be like Vader’s shuttle coming down from the Devastator to pick up Vader and take him to Scarif. Then you could just change the dialogue to, “My lord, your shuttle has arrived.”

Regarding the disk, my original intention was to keep continuity with ANH when Vader says, “Several transmissions were beamed aboard this ship by rebel spies.” The plans being carried physically aboard seems to contradict that. If the viewer had never seen this scene before, I like to think they would still feel tension for the rebels being able to make it off the stranded ship in time, or if the other ship could escape before Vader boards it. But, it seems a lot of people feel the tension would be lost altogether without the disk element, so maybe it is a contradiction we’ll have to live with?

I’m also curious whether or not I should still deemphasize Galen actually “laying a trap” within the Death Star’s design, and if that undermines Luke’s impossible shot at the end of ANH. There seems to be fair arguments for and against.

But really, all these things are not the most important changes I want to make. Instead, it is characterization and dramatic arcs that I want to focus on, but I am still curious if these changes were worth the trouble to maintain continuity with the original Star Wars. Maybe people have better ideas to make the two films more cohesive than I have suggested.