Totally I understand. His cut of not worked really well to fix it but I understand wanting the structure to remain the same.
Thought I’d bring it up here incase anyone wants to give it a shot and fix it with vfx
Who ever said it would have to involve VFX? I just removed the portion of the shot where the lightsaber is visible.
Personally I find this very abrupt and don’t think it works.
Also it’s strange how we hear Merry quietly say in the background of that shot, “There were always whispers of his hunger to cheat death.” Like, what? Why would the galaxy at large ever have reason to believe that? Most of them didn’t even know he was a Sith in the OT.
That’s never explicit in the OT.