Octorox:
"If someone could matte Theed in the distance in some of the wider forest shots one could imply that it wasn't improbably far"

Ooh, sounds like a nice thing to have a go at doing. I'll try putting something together when I get home, if nobody else has tried before then.

I definitely would prefer to cut out or minimise the Ota Gunga (or however it's spelt) and the planet core stuff. Always hated that sequence, it's just filler. And I still don't get how they get from a deep ocean to being in a river running by the palace (which becomes a waterfall, so they couldn't have come up that way). Dumb. But I also feel totally removing Jar Jar has too great an impact on the rest of the movie. Either that or I just care enough to alter it so radically. Meh.

What I do care about is painting mattes, so I'll stick to that and leave the Exorcism of Jar Jar Binks to you. :-)