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Bingowings said:

Back to TPM for a minute, that room with the pit in it (Lucas loves his death pits) what's it actually for (other than having a fight in)?

It looks as though Qui-Gon and Maul are pretty much trapped behind those force fields so why doesn't Obi-Wan just call for back up?

They could switch off Qui-Gon's door and wait until Maul get's so bored or hungry that he jumps down the pit himself.

The more I watch it the more it makes sense for that fight to take place on the droid command ship and have the reactor controls in there.

That would make it imperative that they get in there and risk getting cut down by Maul so they can shut down the droids.

you could use the beginning where the jedi fight the droids as the scene where they storm the control ship.

On the nosey, welcome to how my mind works.

It seems odd now that Maul doesn't speak at all in the duel.

I get the feeling there were lines in there originally but they were all cut to make him seem cooler.

The bit where he points to Qui-Gon seems particularly odd in silence.