I apologize if I missed it, but Bingowings suggested in another thread that eliminating most if not all of episode 2 and three, and just have Obi-Wan going straight to the fortress corrects a lot of problems. Yes, it eliminates the Vader fight, but I guess he agrees with me in that it wasn’t very good. Just my opinion.
It was never meant to be a fight … where it succeeded was obi fearing Vader … I thought that was much better than how bad episode 4 was.
This is how I interpret it as well.
As for the removal of EP 2 and 3, that could actually work. Tala could be a character that Obi-Wan just knows, her first scene with him could be in the ship on their way to the Mustafar System with him testing his force powers.
However, this would have to be someone else’s fanedit as it becomes too radical for the purposes of this one; which is to tone down dumb stuff and increase pace, emotion and (musical) continuity.