It might have been fun to have still have him fall off the little bridge thing but into the bowels of the factory line and shut down the external defenses around the Seperatist conference allowing for Mace and the Other Jedi to land undetected (Obi-Wan and Padme land but they are detected straight away).
Good idea. No hanging onto the flying platform, no losing his head, and certainly no bad jokes to go along with it.