Many of you will be pleased to know that I am keeping Shaak Ti's death. The holo scene later only shows the back of her head from what I noticed and is REALLY obscure to watch. I'll live with it. There are greater imperfections we have to live with in this film than that one. The subsequent action has been pared down to remove the vast majority of incomplete animatics and to speed up the pacing. So far I think it works, but I'll be a better judge of things when I actually see this on a TV screen.
Here's a brief list of the major changes so far:
EP III deletions/modifications:
- New Crawl (Darth Editous is once again helping out on this one so many thanks still go to him).
- The line about "Vulture Droids"
- The line about "Buzz Droids"
- Neimoidian voice modulated (TBD)
- Battle Droids voices modulated (TBD)
- Palpatines's cheesy "Yes"
- Collapsing balcony "shoving" Obi-Wan. It would have broken his legs AND it was bad CG.
- Artoo crashing into wall
- Queen/Senator references throughout (not many fortunately).
- No friggin' midichlorians
- Anakin debating with Mace over killing/saving Palpatine.
- Palpatine's over the top moments while burning himself with force lightning
- Anakin asking "What have I done" right before pledging his soul to Palpatine
- Added bones cracking during the Padme force choke.
- "You underestimate my power."
- Padme losing the will to live.
- Silly medical droid lingo that detracts from the birth sequence.
Deleted stuff added back in
- Shaak Ti's death and escaping from Greivous (sans animatics and trimmed to remove redundancy with bridge scene)
- Mace, Yoda and Obi-Wan discussing the plot (trimmed to remove redundancy with war room scene)
- Rebel Alliance scenes
- Qui-Gon's return (voiceover in three places)
- Dagobah
Hal, to answer your question, here's where I placed the deleted scenes:
Shaak Ti scene just before Anakin & Obi-Wan enter the room where Palp is kept
Plot scene just before the Jedi Council scene where Anakin is begrudgingly accepted onto the council
Bail's Office scene just before the scene with Obi-Wan, Mace and Yoda in the "Huey Chopper"
Padme's apartment scene after Obi-Wan leaves for Utapau in the star destroyer, but before he briefs the clone troopers and departs in his own Jedi starfighter
Palpatine's office just before Obi-Wan riding the lizard for the first time
Dagobah just before Padme's funeral, right after "Have the protocol droid's mind wiped."