Yeah, we've all talked about it and decided that 3PO's officially out of Episode I, although Commander Courage came up with the suggestion of replacing TC-14 on the Neimoidian ship with Anthony Daniels' voice. Which, I thought was a very interesting (while radical) idea. But ultimately, how would you explain how he conveniently ends up on the Lars' farm in II (which, in itself, never made sense to begin with)?

Of course, he could be entirely edited out of II, but that's Trooperman's call. That may be the more necessary change from a saga standpoint, however, because it never added up why a droid with 3PO's personality who spent ten years on a secluded farm with him, would not be recognized by Uncle Owen when he again conveniently turns up in ANH.

I like the idea of him saying the first line in TPM since he also has the first line in IV. So, if we go the TC-14 route and cut him entirely out of II, he'd end up being reintroduced in III as Padme's valet. But, how would you explain it on screen? I mean, wasn't he on the Federation ship when it exploded? Is there a way around it?

And if we don't go the TC-14 route, how will he be introduced in II? Trooperman, you'll have to elaborate on your ideas for this please. And anyone else who cares to chime in with a viable solution would be greatly appreciated.

I've given the newest portion of script to erikstormtrooper to post and to TJ to edit. We've rewritten the Padme/Anakin scene with no telepathy, new subtitles and a slightly different, more natural conversation. The previous version just wasn't translating well enough visually.

The other scene was Sebulba attacking Jar-Jar. With the rough cut, I'd really like to try to make Jar-Jar work as a likable character. Hopefully the new voice and subtitles will take care of a lot of that. But if not, we can trim this scene down even more to exclude ALL of Jar-Jar and his antics with a second cut.

So that should be posted soon. Thanks for hosting, Erik!

--InfoDroid