I watched your edit yesterday and it’s really amazing. You managed to highlight all the great ideas and stuff of this series and make it into a really fun movie. At no point, I felt like I was watching a fan edit and I don’t think I would have noticed any of the missing scenes if I didn’t know they exist.
I do still have some feedback on a few scenes/cuts or transitions that felt a little jarring.
The first would be Leias kidnapping. I like what you did there but the fade to black with the musical sting (is that what it’s called?) felt somewhat off. Maybe it was just a black screen for too long or maybe the music was a little too much, I don’t know.
Then there is the cut rooftop chase from the second episode. I didn’t actually miss that scene at all but it being cut caused two problems for me: First of all, the appearance of the bounty hunter droid came too sudden and out of the blue for me even with the scene earlier of all bounty hunters being alerted. Maybe it’s the same in the original cut, but this appearance felt a little disjointed. The second problem I had with the cut rooftop sequence is that it included the scene where Obi-Wan struggles with the force when he saves Leia from falling. Without that scene we are only told that Obi-Wan is not who he was (with the exception of that one shot on the transport after leaving the city planet) which makes it less impactful when he gets his powers back since we never really saw that he lost them in the first place.
And related to that scene: After Obi-Wan and Haja part ways, you cut to Reva suddenly and aggressively jumping down from the roof to confront Haja. That felt quite jarring as well and would IMO work better if she just comes around the corner and stops Haja.
A few minor things: I didn’t quite get Talas motivation or why she suddenly made the decision to help Obi-Wan when she’s with Leia in the tunnel. It went from Leia asking her to do that and her not wanting to go to her just leaving the next time we see her. I can’t remember if that’s any different from the original cut but I noticed it here.
Seeing Lolas red light was the only time I noticed the original episode structure since that shot still had the cliffhanger feel of the original. Not sure how much can be done about that though.
The scene of Vaders shuttle landing for the final duel seemed to stutter for me for some reason.
And finally, the last scene with Owen. Without Reva abducting Luke and Obi-Wan helping to get him back (which I didn’t mind to lose in this cut even though it has some great Owen and Beru scenes), there was no motivation at all for Owen to suddenly change his mind and agree to have Obi-Wan closer to Luke.
When watching the movie, I thought it could have simply ended with Obi-Wan boarding the shuttle on Alderaan but I get why showing him as Lukes protector again is important and the same goes for him meeting Qui-Gon in the end. Still, Owens change of heart didn’t work for me in the context of the movie.
I also remember having thoughts about the conversation with the guy from Jabiim where Obi-Wan and Tala convince him to help but I’ll need to rewatch that scene.
But as I said earlier: Really great work!