TheoOdo said:TMBTM said:TheoOdo said:Naboo is retitled "Alderaan"
In this case Adywan will need to cut the extra OT SE Naboo shoots in his ROTJ revisited.
I think it's a good idea, but it could cause many editing troubles for a result that, perhaps, don't really worth it.
Well, that's an '04 addition and after all Adywan's edit was originally started to fix the problems with the '04 edit.
I honestly don't think it'll be missed. I was certainly unhappy to see it there for the first time, but maybe that's just me.
The shot need not be entirely wasted. It could be stuck at the beginning of the celebration scenes in Episode 1 (minus the hideous Gungan cry).
If Tatooine and Geonosis were merged for an altered Episode 2 the Tatooine celebration could be used there to mark the removal of the Federation from that world.
As for the Yoda/Palpatine lightsabre thing, I don't have a problem with the idea (a Jedi uses the Force for defence and even master Jedi would use a lightsabre to defend himself and others). Palpatine would use anything to attack someone in his way, when stealth, scheming and manipulation fail why not use a sabre? His fighting style was interesting and unique too. The main purpose of the fight isn't to kill but to manipulate Anakin into making a final choice by placing himself under Windu's blade so it's inkeeping with the whole Sith way of doing things. It just looks a little clumsy the way that the idea is executed.
I wouldn't have Palpatine maimed into looking the way he does.
It would be difficult to achieve an edit to alter this but I'd have had him slowly transformed into the mess we see him in ROTJ because of advancing age and being consumed by his own evil, rather than getting a Force Lightning blow back.
It might be possible to stick his unaltered face over the top of the prune version in the key scenes of ROTS to get this across.
The naming of Vader scene is really out of place, Palpatine goes from a subtle Mephistophelean performance to a comedy bad guy in a few seconds. He doesn't even match the version we see in ROTJ.
While we are on the subject of things Sith, I'd have Anakin use force lightning on Padme ( I hear some hisses from the readers at this point).
At no point does Vader use this Sith skill in the OT but he chokes people left, right and centre (I've already voiced my hope that Adywan stops Luke from doing the choke move in ROTJ:R).
When I was a child I used to think Vader used this method of killing and torturing people because he himself can not breath unassisted and I still like this idea.
If the old Force choke constantly reminded him of killing his pregnant wife would he keep on doing it, thus rubbing his own nose in it?
If he had used Sith lightning on Padme it would explain the sudden delivery of her babies and even go some way to explaining her death in child birth.
It would also explain why Vader never does it again and underline the horror in Jedi of seeing Palpatine do the same move on Luke.
See it all makes sense now.
I hope?