DominicCobb said:
Bingowings said:
I will once again bore you all to death with my preferred sequence of events.
In ANH there is constant reference to the Rebel Hidden Base and the plans so it makes sense that the final destination of the film is Yavin and the use of the plans to destroy the Death Star. The characters all follow a path to that single destination which results in an action packed end sequence.
I would have Padme on Coruscant representing her people with representative Binks and trying to prevent an invasion diplomatically at the beginning of the film. Have some transmission on the Queen's secret channel cut off and disputed as nonsense in the senate but supported by some Jedi (Dooku, Qui-Gon) with resistance (Maceinyourface Windu). She then heads off home and is shot down over Tatooine. They pick up Anakin after winning the parts to repair the ship and then rescue the significantly damaged planet by Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon landing on the droid command ship fighting droids and finally facing Maul in the reactor room. Obi-Wan shuts down the droid army or sends a full report to the senate and escapes before Anakin purposefully destroys the ship, everyone celebrates and they eat barbecued Jedi Master...
If you've stated this series of events before I must have somehow missed it. I love it, I think it'd be much better. The question is, is it possible?
I think it could be done but on the sort of intensive reworking level that Ady uses rather than just shuffling the existing scenes.
As I've said elsewhere when I watched the first trailer for TPM I assumed that the duel with Maul took place on a spaceship and that Padme telling everyone to get to their ships would take place in the same time that the earlier hanger scene took place. TPM (Naboo, Tatooine, Coruscant, Naboo) seems to go around in circles when it really needs to go in a straight line (for me Coruscant, Tatooine, Naboo).
As for Jar-Jar George made two big mistakes there. One the whole Stepin Fetchit thing which sort of makes me wonder if George has some sort of condition in that he let that and all the other ethnic tropes pass (cowardly sneak attack by slit eyed robot obsessed industrialists... from the guy who owes so much to Japanese culture that was weird).
The other was just making him a clown instead of giving his clumsy actions a story/character grounding. I would make him a full representative of his people so re-dubbing him to be eloquent and mannered but out of his depth when it comes to physical activity. Not many politicians would be graceful in a war zone (a fish out of water).
Having the Federation fleet vanish leaving one ship behind seemed weird too.
But this is clearly not the direction this edit is going so I'd continue talking about it over here.