In my earlier edits, I tried to keep the running time under 3hrs. However, when I played it for my friends who aren’t familiar with the SW universe, they felt Anakin’s backstory in Ep I was a little disjointed. They were not convinced as to why Qui-Gon believed Anakin was special. So I had to pad it back up to make it more cohesive to a SW newbie.

Should I remove the scene when Anakin confesses to Padme that he slaughtered the Sand People, and possibly remove Obi-Wan’s scene with Count Dooku in Geonosis?