C3PX said:
The depths of problems like this are beyond fixing via editing. This is reconceptualize and rewrite level stuff. The problem with this whole fanedit craze is we decide that everything wrong with a twenty year old film can and should be fixed, and the end result is a hacked up film. Just take a look at all the ROTJ fanedits who tried to "fix" the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi by removing them...

Sometimes good enough ought to just be left alone. Fanedits work when you take something crappy in hopes of making it into something bearable (though this begs the question: what is the point?). But fanedits of decent or good movies is something hard for me to get my head around.

There are a lot of creative approaches to the Ewoks than just cutting them out (giving them more realistic facial movements, fleshing out their culture making them more like real alien people than cuddly teddy bears who take down the Empire without prior experience etc).

My personal bag with them is that they never feel real enough to believe in.

The idea of a shorter than average tribal community fighting along side the Rebels being the deciding factor in a ground battle is perfect (it shows that the Empire like it's leader underestimates the power of individuals and over estimates the power of it's technology).

The execution currently doesn't work but that possibly is fixable.

It's certainly worthy of discussion.

But I conceed not on this thread so I'll scuttle back from my little vacation away from the topic.