Jar Jar Bricks said:
This was removed because we need to remove the Force speed/teleport. This ability doesn’t show up anywhere else in Star Wars canon, and it introduces a plot hole when Obi-Wan is trying to catch up to Qui-Gon and Maul later on.
Thanks for the response. Mind you, this debate is over small things here, but I’ll bring up my counter argument nonetheless. Lol
I thought someone might bring up the super speed ability. Sure it might open up plot holes, but if you really think about it, there are a million other plot holes as is. Why pick on this particular one? For example, last night it occurred to me why Darth Maul didn’t just use a force push when Obi-Wan was hanging by a thread near the end. And why didn’t Yoda and the rest of the council join Obi-Wan and Qui-gon to face the possible Sith? The first Sith lord in who knows how long comes around, and they send two jedi while the rest sit around the council twiddling their thumbs. Wouldn’t they want to send their best? My only point here being that I don’t think every single potential plot hole needs to be dealt with. I’d rather just the cringe scenes be removed (and they have been). Besides that, haven’t you seen this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3dI-ghYimg
This is a scene which I do think could be hypothetically reinstated. I don’t know enough of the history of this edit as for why it was initially removed, but if I had to take a guess, it’s probably because of Obi-Wan’s bad wig and also because it foreshadows Qui-Gon’s death too much. Characters don’t talk like this unless something bad is about to happen lol.
I think this scene is a pretty hefty loss just to speed up the pace a bit. And I don’t think we need to consider foreshadowing when all of us here know how Star Wars ends anyway (and lets face it; there are no surprise endings to be found in the prequels). But maybe that’s just me! I do think this scene is the only poorly edited scene in this whole fan edit, though.
As for the other scenes I brought up, those aren’t even worth debating since they aren’t that big of a deal to me. This is still an amazing edit. Haha