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so I’ve often wondered what I would do in an edit of TPM.

Change the crawl, thats for sure. Nix the second sea monster, put back in some of the better deleted scenes… but what else.

I fall into the catagorey of fans that dislike AOTC more then TPM. Not that TPM is perfect, but I’ve always felt the issues with it were mostly conceptual, and not editorial. Anakin should of been older. Naboo should of been Alderaan, Obi-wan should of filled Qui-gon’s role, etc.

Still though, having recently completed edits of AOTC and ROTS, the temptation was there to do something with TPM. Both my other two prequel edits were greatly shortened, AotC down to 1h 45m, rots to 1h 50m. TPM could actually end up being longer, with the deleted scenes added and no Major sequences deleted from the movie. Watching it again recently, it did strike me how slow a movie it is, so adding running time does not seem advantagious.

But what to remove?

Simply cutting all of Jar jar’s dialogue does not seem logical to me, as many people have done in the past. Although he will have some trims here and there.

So then it hit me…

Delete all of darth sidious’ scenes.

I know I know, this seems absolutely ridiculous. and those scenes were to many the high points of the movie. But still, I always like to be contraversial, and and if I’m going to do an edit, I want to do something substancial.

The way I see it, if Palpatine appears, but sidious does not, this perserves the darklord’s identity all the way up to the end of AotC. ANd though it makes TPM a much less dark film, that sort of fits in a way as the first episode. So darth Maul would be the only darker element in the film.

I’m sure this will leave me open to critism, and I’m all for it. I’d like to get people’s thoughts on this before I go ahead with it.