I enjoy watching The Phantom Editor's edits of Ep. I and II, especially listening to his commentaries. In Ep. I, TPE talks about how one of the biggest failures of that movie was that a lot of scenes violated the "Enter late, leave early" principle of film editing.

When he cut to the invasion right after ol what's-his-face said "This can only mean one thing - invasion", I thought of ESB when Reikaan says "We'd better start the evacuation" and BAM! it cuts to the Imperial March and the approaching SSD. Fantastic. It strikes a perfect note, and that is exactly what TPE brough back with his "invasion" cut.

I wonder how Lucas' prequel-era editors would have handled certain OT moments like "evacuation".