ben_danger said:
hmmm, if only there were an obsessive collective of people who spend their spare time correcting these problemos....
there is a stack of potential issues, but as i said its just an idea. i just like the idea that obiwan goes out with the best of intentions to save anakin, but ends up practically killing him enstead.
I thought the idea of having them arrange the twins-thing before the duel too, though the clothes are a problem. Anyway, it still makes sense, since if you put it the way we're suggesting, Anakin's "death" (in case you try to keep Vader's identity unknown) would be something that wasn't foreseen, so they'd have to decide everything quickly, which is actually the way it seems to be in the movie. Still, You could have ObiWan go to "rescue" Anakin from the order 66 as a whole separated thing of "keeping Yoda's destiny" a secret...you wouldn't loose Qui Gonn's scene.
Obi runs from Utapau. Message from the Tantive. Gets to the ship. They arrive to Coruscant. Obi goes to Padme's. Padme goes to Mustafar. Duel. Birth scene. Twin arrangement.
That way you'd make Anakin and ObiWan more worried about each other, and you don't loose Yoda's micro-storyline. The only scene that should be gone is that of ObiWan and Yoda in Coruscant sending the emergency code(that way you're giving the history a soft twist). And if you want to make it even deeper, as I said, make it seem as Anakin and Padme had told ObiWan about them being a couple. So Kenobi is this friend that could be silent and support his best friend against the Jedi's rules. Making one best friend keep the other's secret would help you a lot (really, a lot) in order to make the story fit Obiwan's lines in ANH.
Besides, if you try this, plus the other stuff of having Anakin go straight to Padme's right after Palps reveal, it'd be just excelent how Padme's character would grow even reaching the level of importance of Leia in ESB (more or less) and not leaving her be just some stand-aside, plain character in the movie.
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The main challenge to make it all work would be to insert at some point of the sequence, some dialogue that proves ObiWan's preoccupation about Anakin. Considering Bob's abbilities in editing, I don't think that'd be a major challenge.
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On another aspect, don't know what you plan to do on Padme's death Bob, but it might be better if the only one who suspects that "there's still good" in Vader was Luke. Padme's hard broken and dissapointed.
I try to keep making some plot-suggestions, though at times I feel too invasive with my comments, it's just that I have so much confidence in this edit as the ultimate ROTS fan edit. BTW, long time no see the visuals guy, Vaderios where're you?