Update : I have reincorporated deleted scene #4 so that all of Padme's scenes dealing with preserving democracy despite the Chancellor are now a part of the movie and make her character stronger while making the rift between she and Anakin hopefully more believable.

I am currently editing the scene where the Jedi confront Palpatine and Anakin decides to become Sidious' apprentice.

Thanks to Erikstormtrooper and TheTome for their critiques of the movie's opening crawl, the substance of which has been a continual source of story complication. Special thanks to Erikstormtrooper for taking the time to lend his writing expertise to the rewriting of the crawl!