With all the talk (both here and in the TPM community thread) of having Shmi already be free by the time of AOTC, I wanted to share this attempt I made at the Watto scene to remove references to him selling her but maintain the information we need about the Lars family.
I think that has potential. Only the “years ago” line is a bit jarring, because the lip-sync doesn’t match. Maybe that could be fixed by shuffling the shots around, but I am not sure about that, I would need to watch the full scene again.