snooker that’s really awesome, I’d love to be able to use it for this! I’m surprised no one has really tried something like this for Padme yet, her lack of agency in RotS is generally accepted as one of its biggest issues. This subtle thing goes a pretty long way in giving it back.
Here’s a list of changes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUZSjG8QYeL7foDqdGZBMv0Otmc-40WAd1lCK2CCj5M/edit?usp=sharingI’ll try to respond to everyone, especially you Rogue, but for now that should give people a clearer idea of what I’m going for.
You might want to hold off moving some scenes until series 7 of TCW has finished as it overlaps with RotS and considering how well this edit joins the two together moving scenes like the ‘I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi’ scene might make the flow a little jankey.
Here’s another try at the Mustafar scene using snooker’s new clip and a few audio adjustments/line changes:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C4MQQtYfCKoR4zNnwuvyJeT11dCBBvKR/view?usp=sharing
The addition of Snooker’s Padmé stuff and your additional dialogue really help to make it feel less sudden.
For myself, I’m not overly concerned about the video game dialogue not fitting perfectly (I think the pitch of Anakin’s could be turned up a bit) because I think the lines themselves are possibly better for conveying betrayal better than the original or the stunted, choppy dialogue by cutting but not replacing.
I like the new padme clip. After watching this version several times and thinking about it more I think after “You turned her against me!”, the scene should play the same as the theatrical, except for “Only a sith…”. It cuts too many good lines that I enjoy, like: “you have done that yourself!" and “for democracy!"
I also miss ‘you have done that yourself’, even towards the end of TCW Obi-Wan was still blind to the problems Anakin saw in the Republic and Jedi Order (he voted against Ashoka’s exile but didn’t try prevent the trial in the first place) and he still sees Anakin as making the wrong choice and Padmé as making the right one (though I don’t think he knows about her little loyalist club yet) rather than Anakin’s view just being an extreme reaction to a legitimate concern about the Republic.
Also, sorry if you explained it somewhere and I didn’t see it, but can you explain why you cut the killing younglings reference?
I think the Nightfall scene was cut out making it ambiguous to what Anakin (or Vader) did in the Temple. Also, ‘younglings’ is a silly word which undercuts the drama. I don’t even know why Padmé says it in the official version rather than just saying ‘children’, I think it’s only ever been used by the Jedi. People do tend to quote other people’s words directly, including jargon, close to the event, but it’s been at least hours since that conversation and Padmé should probably have just edited it in her head by now removing Jedi specific words.
I may be wrong and non-Jedi do use it to refer to children but either way, it’s still a silly word.