Hal 9000 said:
I'd also like to open the floor for last minute ideas about dialogue for the medical droid. The idea is to communicate that Padme is injured in such a way that she will die a few years down the road.
Currently the droid says, "She has sustained severe injuries. She will survive, but she may never fully recover."
Although your current wording leaves it open-ended enough to tie-in with what Leia infers in ROTJ, here's a possible alternative that's equally open-ended, but leans a little more to the possibility of her untimely demise -
Perhaps the medical droid could instead say "She has sustained severe injuries. We do not know how long she can survive."
Or something similar such as "She has sustained severe injuries. It's uncertain how long she can survive."
Or something equally similar such as "She has sustained severe injuries. We cannot say how long she will survive."
Just a thought you may or may not prefer, seeing as you asked.
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Either way, I look forward to checking out your trilogy versions eventually. Although I have very fixed versions of my own in mind where a lot of scenes are concerned, I'm always interested in what others choose to do.
I see that you're intending to alter the colour of Windu's lightsaber. Good stuff, as I know that adywan is intending to change the colour too, and that's something I'm looking forward to seeing eventually.
Just as an aside, the *other* colour change to a lightsaber that I really loved was in bobgarcia74's preview clip for his Episode III: Reign Of The Dark Side edit...where he changed Anakin's blade to RED instead of blue for his duel with Obi-wan. Personally, I think it looks terrific compared to the blue on blue fighting of the original.
Yes, I know that some will say that having the same colour of blade 'symbolises' the tragedy that they were 'Jedi brothers-in-arms' to begin with, but it sure brings a more visually-stiking look to the shots as far as I'm concerned - and I look on Anakin as already being very set on his dark path by the time that Padme gets choked by him anyway - going by George's direlogue anyway - so a 'Sith'-like colour change to his blade (for *whatever* reason) is fine by me at this point.
But doesn't that contradict the fact that Obi-wan then tells Luke years later that his father wanted him to have his lightsaber one day...and it turns out to be BLUE in STAR WARS:ANH?...
Simple, Obi-wan *lied* for a start as far as I'm concerned. I don't recall Anakin mentioning any such thing to Obi-wan in the first place...and seriously doubt that it would be something he would have even given a moment's thought about 'offscreen' at the time either...considering his wife was still *secretly* pregnant, and the fact that he had bigger issues on his mind at that point, such as galaxy-wide domination...
Therefore, due to Obi-wan's 'twisting of the truth' in ANH which suited his mission intentions at the time...I'm happy to imagine that he could also easily have given Luke *any* old lightsaber that he happened to have in his belongings at that time, which happened to have a *similar-looking* hilt to the one he picked up in ROTS...but which happened to be blue...
OR...if it was indeed the *actual* RED one that he picked up in ROTS, that he'd merely fiddled about with it at some point during the years so that it wasn't a 'Sith'-colouration anymore! This is my preferred option, by the way. ;)