Originally posted by: darkhelmet
I agree with C3PX on what the basic resolve of the Anakin/Obi fight should have been; I have trouble with Obi leaving Anakin at all without even so much as finishing him off for mercy's sake! He doesn't pick up his lightsaber, because it seemed like an uncalled-for thing. No set up for it at all in the prequels. Seemed just a lame/rushed way for obi to have it in ANH.

I gotta go, but, C3PX, I downloaded your edit twice, and the video comes up only as colored static. Is it corrupt? I can hear the audio.

I'll check on that video. Other have downloaded it and watched it no problem. I'll try it myself. I agree with you about Obi-Wan picking up the lightsaber, and I honestly don't think its absence will hurt the film. They admited that they forgot about that part and had to go back and shoot it, and the way they did it it really doesn't fit too well. If you are watching your friend buring to death, I think taking his weapon would be the last thing on your mind. How I would suggest editing it, would to be have all as it is, with Anakin catching fire before Obi's eyes, and having him seem to die then and there. That way Obi-Wan already believes he is dead, rather than leaving him to die. I think this could be achieved by freezing the section of film with Anakin's body to show he is not moving, while keeping the rest of the shot moving. Not sure how to do that myself, but more difficult things have been done in fan edits.

EDIT: Just downloaded my clip and skimmed through it, it works fine. Perhaps you don't have the right software for it, it is a normal xvid file. Can you normally play divx/xvid files? You may just need to get an xvid decoder, if you still can't get it to work maybe I can redo it in mpeg or something later when I get the time. I really think you and I are kind of on the same page with our ideas for the ending though. Mine shows Padme birth Luke, die, then fades to her funeral, then show Obi-Wan passing Luke off to his relatives. There is no reason to disguise the fact that Luke is the son of Anakin since the last name is a dead give away and Obi-Wan talks about Anakin just a short ways into the movie. I think if every instance of the use of the name "Lord Vader" or "Darth Vader" is removed from ROTS, we will know something fishy is going on with Obi-Wan's conversation with Luke, but we wont have necessarily made the connection of Darth=Anakin. Even if people were to make the connection, it is still fun to have it shrouded rather than flashing in the sunlight. I think just about every one who saw my clip didn't like that I removed the scene of Palps rescuing Anakin or the birth of Vader scene. My idea also keep the Luke and Leia thing a complete surprise until Jedi, that way we are as baffled with it as Han is upon first hearing it, or it allows the sibling idea to be somehow skillfully edited out of in the event of a saga edit.