This speculation is pointless; in the end the film is crippled beyond hope. I was an idiot for liking this film, and anyone who says this is the best Star Wars film is just as idiotic as I am. Lucas proved his talent at not only making bad movies by this point, but making the most possibly incompetent whenever possible. Gary Kurtz kept him locked up as long as he could, but Lucas purged him when at the earliest possible moment. Lucas is a sadist; he knew ESB was a flawless masterpiece and did everything in his power to ensure that level of quality would never exist in the franchise again. He erased everything Kasdan wrote in the script for Jedi and tricked people by keeping his name credited. He divorced Marcia and erased her out of history mere weeks after Jedi’s premiere. He picked the most untalented and obedient yes-man to direct the film. He went the extra mile by adding more nonsense and choosing the laziest possible route that existed. You think the Phantom Menace was bad? We were warned for SIXTEEN YEARS that it was going to be the worst thing possible on film, AND THEN he bored an even deeper hole with AOTC so that the bad would outweigh the good permanently. Only now has the franchise climbed back into average at best quality, but we are never going to have a true masterpiece in the Star Wars saga again.