First, I owe TJ an apology for not getting back to him faster -- I've been tremendously busy, but I posted here without contacting him and that must have felt vexing.
Second -- that cut is very rough and there are fixes for the concerns that I have which I think will much better reflect the script's intentions.
As to the "Force Talking," that ship has sailed. We are going to make it work because the entire climax rests upon it. Reaching out to Padme in this scene accomplishes enormous amounts. People's reactions to a rough cut are so unpredictable as to be almost, well, very little help.
I know there's no putting the cat back into the bag, but let me say that I find this sequence is great in this admittedly rough form.