I’m really excited for this edit.
Thanks, Cap! I hope it lives up to your expectations.
Anyway, I just completed sound editing for the Coruscant scenes, and while doing so, I decided to take out the line, “he’s too old.” from the jedi council’s rejection of Anakin.
Admittedly, that line never was a great one to begin with, but I kept it in for v1 and v2. I figured since it was going to be mentioned in Episode II thanks to a deleted scene I added, that removing the line would be bad for the trilogy as a whole.
But the thing is that, in context of Episode I, it’s nonsense. It’s obvious that everyone on the council is sensing bad vibes from Anakin. That alone is enough of an excuse for them to reject him. Saying “we’re not gonna train him because he’s too old for this crap.” makes the scene more complicated than it has to be.
Of course, the thing that will obviously come up is how this might affect Episode II. After all, Obi-Wan does mention to Mace that he and Yoda were right about the boy being too old in my edit. My take on it is that, because it’s such a small detail, and because it just barely has any relevance to the trilogy as a whole, the audience can leave things open to interpretation over when the argument over Anakin’s age happened. There was probably a debate over his age just before the council decided to let Obi-Wan train him, perhaps as a last hurrah to stop him from being trained.
Whatever the case may be, it’s a bad line. I don’t think anyone is going to miss it that much.