As for Padme, I’ve replaced “Stop! stop! Come back! I love you!” with “I don’t know you anymore” to keep her consistent after she backs away… Although, yes now it feels a little like she is way less forgiving of Anakin and for less reason. You just have to remember mass murderer I guess, and through that lens she’d be in the right. Or any lens, really. But we’re all so familiar with her being inexplicably lovestruck with said mass murderer in the theatrical that it feels off.
I actually think it feels [i]less[/i] sudden now. With the reintegrated Rebellion scenes she’s already committed herself to doing what’s right over loyalty to the institution she’s served since she was 14 and to the man who introduced her to politics. She’s already seen the Republic go off the deep end in the War and now it looks like Palpatine has also betrayed her, that’s a lot of loss for a person and now Anakin has shown he’s clearly been with Palpatine since the beginning (or as far as she can see anyway). It actually gives her a chance to show some emotions of he own (namely anger and betrayal) rather than just existing in the orbit of Anakin.
It also helps remove the single worst scene of any SW film (and I include Jar-Jar reacting to the pink horses in TPM) which is the scene in AotC where she forgives him for wiping out an entire village and passes it off as ‘normal’ behaviour.
Here’s a newer pass:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P97bR4caigVEJ6Ph_dVRS7qTznH_FvEM/view?usp=sharingIdk why but the “you werent there” was pitched up on the previous two passes, bringing it back down in this one fits better and to a point that I’m okay with.
I’m not sure how easy or not it would be to add a sound (and possibly a visual) effect of one of the plume eruptions in the background when he says the line. It is undeniably more muffled than the rest but making it look like it was drowned out by the location would help I think. Though the integration is far more natural than it was and It’s too good a line to loose I think.
I’m working on a way to make Anakin attack first, but VFX isn’t my strongest suit
Well beyond my skills, but the frames from when Obi-Wan is holding out his hilt should be enough to copy forward to cover over the blade, as long as you add the sound effect of him igniting as the camera is on Anakin flipping then you can avoid having to try and fit it into another part of the scene. It looks like you’ve essentially done that anyway but with a cut.
Also, going back to the point RogueLeader made above, The shots of Padmé boarding her ship are long shots so it [i]might[/i] not be too difficult to have a hooded Obi-Wan walk up the ramp behind her and 3PO to show they’ve agreed to do this together (or at least he thinks he’s there to help Anakin and she thinks he’s there to stop Anakin) as it should just be a matter of taking the existing Obi-Wan and have him follow rather than appearing behind some boxes.
It’s not massively important, you could just not show him at all with the assumption being that he’s already onboard but I agree that seeing him hiding doesn’t fit with Padmé’s new motivations.