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oh. and I was going to say, while it does make sense for Qui Gon to tell him to hide, I also had the impression that he wanted Anakin along to watch him. When the council says he can’t be trained Qui Gon tells Anakin to watch him and take note. I don’t know how he expects Anakin to do that when he is hiding though. I think it was just a bit of an oversight on George Lucas’s part.

No problem. Your welcome.
I think my sister actually liked Anakin. I told her she may not like him in the next movies if we watch the original films. I think you trimmed Jar Jar well to make him the “everyman” you mentioned. I think it’s easy for us to understand why he follows the jedi, his “lifedebt”, but since nearly every edit skips his banishment I still felt the need to pause to emphasise the lifedebt so my sister and dad didn’t miss why the heck this creature is tagging along lol. All in all I still think it’s better without the banishment and all his clumsiness and helps salvage the movie.

I saw on the fan edit database an edit of TPM called “the phantom mending”. It had a couple favorable reviews and sounds like it made a couple more radical edits than your installment. I was wondering if you’d seen it because I didn’t see it anywhere, or any forums about it and was curious.
EDIT: Actually I signed up for fanedit.org forums but just noticed the confirmation went to my spam folder. So I will be able to look there after the site is working.

I enjoyed it a lot as well. It works very well as a fan edit. As mentioned, the minimum dialogue comes off as a strength but you also had to use a lot of action sequences instead which can be tedious. Those movies can already be tedious however so it’s not much of a criticism. I think I only lost myself a little in the action since the soundtrack is worked in so well.

I really enjoyed the intro from the maul fight to the bar and I thought including Qui Gon in Anakin’s dreams helped tie it in and make that fight relevant. From those dreams and the narrative you put together we see Anakin’s motivations simply as a need for control in his life.

I also enjoyed the clone wars montage and seeing Anakin and Obi Wan smile during their battles, giving them a little character. I personally like the idea from the clone wars animated series better as to why order 66 occurred, making the clones complex characters rather than obedient fighting machines… but for the purposes of this film, including the lines about the clones following any order and being genetically modified to be less independent does help explain their turning on the jedi later.

I would highly consider watching other edits made by you or your team, especially star wars films or films I know. It was very good.

I really enjoyed this edit. I could hardly tell it was an edit and it seemed like it could be the original film. My dad thought it was good. My sister enjoyed it but had reservations about one part once I told her the difference from the original.

Take the reservations with a grain of salt since this is the last version of your edit but my sister and I tend to agree about this. She expressed surprise when Anakin suddenly went against Qui Gon’s orders to hide and took action in a space ship. When I told her what was in the original film, she seemed to like that idea better and asked to see the original episode 2 next instead of a fan edit. I tried to explain why that’s not a very good idea. I will probably get my way anyway and we’ll watch an edit.

My thoughts on it, and I think a lot of fan edits make this mistake, is they make Anakin a little to competent and action oriented and forget he is also a child. This is a small reservation out of the whole edit you put together masterfully but I thought I’d give my feedback since my family felt the same way. Taking the spinning out of this space ship scene is good, but I think including the part where Qui Gon asks him to hide in the ship and the part where Anakin tries to justify his action with something like, “well he told me to stay in the ship”, might go a long way with that particular sudden action he takes.

Thanks for all the work you put into this edit. Again, it was masterfully done though it was on the soldiers of giants.

Same here please 😃 . I really like these ideas and would like to see how they were implemented.