I think the inciting incident in ROTS should be that Palpatine tells Anakin that he is Sidious.
I think this is a good idea. How do we implement it?
Whoops, sorry for the double post!
I made an edit that put the talky bit after the opening first, but it turned out a bit meh and now I’m thinking to start the movie with one of Anakin’s nightmares and the original opening battle directly after that.
Then I would implement some dialogue from Anakin’s turn into the scene where Palpatine tells Anakin to kill Dooku. (stuff like “only then will you be strong enough with the dark side to save Padmé”, I did something similar in my first edit)
I think this should be the moment where the reveal happens, because Obi-Wan is unconscious and Dooku is at Anakin’s mercy.
Also the scene is rather static and shot in close ups, so maybe we can rearrange some shots or create some new ones to give room for one or two more lines of dialogue.