@Darth Ender Ha Ha :)

You know me too well.... Funny how all those examples you have given are things I have taken quite a bit of time looking at and wanting to fix or pad out the timing flow better and capitalize on opportunities.

you have practically nailed my dream edit of empire (visually with a few omissions) although I won't talk about the changes exactly.

Perhaps I have a timing affliction :) Think depth, think scope and think a grander scale and being closer to time. It's where I am at that is what burns inside me for this film... I Can't help that.

I think people get pessimistic and put their preservationist hat on sometimes over making changes which could be for the better. But unless we try to explore some of the possibilities we can be none the wiser about how to make any improvement at all. But I will also except that sometimes an idea goes rotten before coming to fruition or simply does not work and is forced and damaging. Where as sometimes things fall in to place naturally.

I never said I hated it did I :)

Perhaps Arnold never needed to jump into the canal on his motorbike in terminator 2 we could have just cut to him riding his motorbike all of a sudden in the canal? we clearly saw him observe the canal that is enough we did not need to see him do that jump did we no... that achieved nothing at all.

Think Space car chase...It's about the build up to it whilst not changing the actual end result. Trying to improve upon the build up is no bad thing.