Again I'm probably jumping in to rehash something that's already been discussed, but when it comes to the Anakin scenes in Episode III, I'd actually hope that there isn't a lot of work done that needs to be done to the scenes he has with the Emperor -- in particular the "opera house" conversation.

I've heard rumours that Robert Towne, the writer of "Chinatown", was brought in to script some of the scenes between Anakin and Palpatine, and if that's right, it shows here. Out of all the scenes in the movie -- if not all three PT movies -- that one holds me most. Ironic that in a movie busting with CGI madness, duels up the wazoo, and Ralph McQuarrie paintings, the one scene with greatest impact is just two guys doing nothing but sitting down and talking philosophy. It says a lot for Ian McDiarmid, who basically has to deliver backstory exposition the whole way through that scene, and yet does it with such wistfulness and menace it actually compels you to watch. And it also comes from that low, evil tone that forms the soundtrack -- that tone is part of the opera, of course, but it unsettles you in the same way that ambient sound in the Bespin carbon chamber did during ESB. I know it's got the friggin' midichlorians in it, but please, guys, I beg you not to razor it more than you absolutely have to. It's one of the few scenes worth anything in the whole PT.