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Originally posted by: theredbaron
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Does it ditch or greatly reduce the podrace? 'Cause the podrace is useless - 'sif the people on Tatooine wouldn't be all over Republic credits - just an excuse to rip-off some epic chariot race.

No, but it cuts most of Jar Jar's redundent lines and actions, cuts all Annakin's yippees, etc, totally cuts the journey through the core with the big fish, etc. When all that crap is cut, the podrace fits into teh movie pretty well because we haven't already been saturated with redundent crap.