I can certainly understand what you mean. It’s certainly not my favourite scene but I think catching on to the breathing foreshadowing made the scene a lot better for me. It’s such a simple catch and you miss moment.
I’ll have to watch for that on my next viewing of the saga.
I was also mistaken. My thoughts (in part) on The Phantom Menace is here.
Out of curiosity, how do you rank the Skywalker saga films?
That thread had a lot of really interesting takes on TPM. I enjoyed reading through it.
As for my ranking I still have a preference for the OT despite the fact that the PT has grown on me a lot these past few years but its not set in stone and will likely change over time.
V > IV > VI > III > I > II >> VII > VIII > IX
TPM and ROTS are really close for me, as I said, and so are ROTJ and ANH.