Hal, I just had a dumb yet possibly okay-ish idea for V4! If I recall correctly, in your edit, you go from Anakin slaughtering sand people to Obi on Geonosis. You cut out Yoda sensing it and saying, “Young Skywalker is in great pain.” Which I totally get! It makes no sense to have that scene when neither Yoda or Mace ever attempt to confront Anakin about it. However, that short scene has that really cool Qui-Gon VO saying, “Anakin! Anakin!! NOOO!!!” I’ve always dug that and thought it was pretty powerful stuff. Have you ever tried putting that over the shots of Anakin killing the sand people? Does that make sense? Like, at the medium shot of Anakin, after the shot of him decapitating two sand people, you super impose the “Anakin! Anakin!!” Then, right at the final slice, as it transitions to the Obi scene, we hear the “NOOO!!!”
Hopefully it’ll work. [shrugs]

“This is an emotional moment. Anakin just killed some sand people.”
“You mean Arabs??”
“Nooo… No, you racist. No.”