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Post #1392786

Author
Hal 9000
Parent topic
Star Wars Episode III: Labyrinth Of Evil (Released)
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Date created
12-Dec-2020, 12:03 AM

It wouldn’t be LOE, but you could make a good ROTS edit with this scene arrangement:

  • Anakin and Padme reunite; pregnancy revealed
  • Grievous arrives on Utapau
  • Balcony scene (“love has blinded you”)
  • Nightmare (ends as Anakin walks off, Padme remains asleep)
  • “I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi” deleted scene
  • Obi-Wan telling Anakin that Palpatine requests his presence
  • Opera of Squid Lake
  • Yoda’s counseling session
  • Palpatine appoints Anakin to Council
  • Council unhappy about this
  • Bail’s apartment deleted scene
  • Obi-Wan asking Anakin to spy on Palpatine
  • Jedi traffic scene
  • Padme and Anakin “you’re sounding like a Separatist”
  • Second nightmare with Obi—Wan, “I feel lost”
  • Kashyyyk battle
  • 3PO serving drinks political deleted scene
  • Anakin and Obi-Wan farewell, Obi-Wan heads to Utapau
  • Petition of Two Thousand deleted scene
  • Obi-Wan arrives on Utapau

I wonder what you all’d think of this. It’d be… quite different from LOE as we know it, so I don’t want to sort of do a bait and switch.
It borrows some of the nice things about L8wrtr’s edit, and lets us hang onto the Yoda counseling scene. The fundamental difference from LOE would just be that the nightmare would now precede most of the political setup. This uncouples it from the tighter implication in LOE that Palpatine is causing Anakin’s nightmares (rather than a genuine vision that would narratively need to occur to feel satisfying).

Perhaps the “alternate version” could feature Padme’s death and be structured as above. It wouldn’t be LOE per se, but it might be the best way to present a version with that ending intact.