Thanks for the feedback, Miasta, and to Rikter too (naturally!). When and if you watch ep. 2 all the way through, I think you'll see a lot of similar choices made between my version and Attack of the Phantom. One in particular, in the re-instated dinner scene with Padme's family, there's a reaction shot of Anakin to Padme's "he's not my boyfriend" line that I was shocked to see was handled in an identical fashion, having seen his version only after I'd completed mine. He goes a bit farther in certain areas, removing the asteroid chase (unless I'm mistaken... sometimes it's hard to keep all these edits straight) and simplifying the search for Kamino, while I think I overhauled the love story a bit more than he did.

Glad you liked the elevator scene being cut in ep. 3. That was one thing I was a bit nervous about, thinking it might be too abrupt. But while I enjoyed the elevator scene when I first saw it in theaters, there's something about it that doesn't stand the test of repeated viewings for me, and they already spend time vivisecting tons of battle droids in the hangar, and the elevator scene is pretty much just more of the same. The hardest thing for me with ep.3 was trying to remove Palpatine's mention of midichlorians in the opera scene... I've seen ADM's edit, but I forgot how he did that, and didn't have it around for reference. I eventually was able to grab a bit from before one of Anakin's responses and use it as a reaction shot to mask the edit of Palpatine's dialogue. Sometimes all that slow paced talking comes in handy.