Wow, I finally saw the edit in AOTC that everyone's been talking about since September. Some guy recorded it off his camera while it was playing on his tv and put it up on youtube, I couldn't find a better version.

Anyway, what a terrible change!

Yoda's sighing in defeat and Dooku's ship is still right there next to him. Slice the damn thing open with your lightsaber! And don't gimme that whole excuse of "Yoda was exhausted from the fight" or something /plinkettvoice.

Seriously, what a stupid alteration to make. Lucas once again in his "I'm gonna paint it Jar-Jar" mode.

Pretty ironic how the first two prequels have now been even further removed from their theatrical cuts and yet we now have ROTS exactly as it was (probably because the wipe was removed for the hdtv/dvd transfer without actually touching the source files and then they just forgot when they went back for the new transfer, but that's just my guess).