InfoDroid said:The focus should be on Obi-Wan, everything could be through his perspective. If you eliminate the "finding Anakin" story, then Obi-Wan is there for every major plot point.
I think there has already been an attempt to do a Obi-Wan focused edit of the whole prequel trilogy (or did I just dream it?).
That's fine as a short film project but pointless as Star Wars Episode One.
Besides in TPM there is no 'finding Anakin' story as such, he kind of gets picked up by the others going (the wrong way) to Coruscant.
Perhaps there should be a 'finding Anakin' subplot, another possibility is that the Jedi know that the Chosen One is out there somewhere. Qui-Gon has a premonition that assisting in the Naboo crisis is the key to finding this child and unlocking the meaning of the prophercy, which is clearly important to them and for the greater good (they just don't know how much damage has to be done before the galaxy receives the boon that the child represents). "I Have encountered a vergence in the Force", becomes "I sense a vergence in the Force".
Qui-Gon hasn't met Anakin yet but he foresees he will so the council send Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to investigate the invasion and hopefully bring the Chosen One back with him.
Such a plot alteration would place Anakin further up the map of the story and foreshadow the rather wobbly way the Jedi deal with him in later life.