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The scene with her funeral also has her family in it. Lots of faneditors throw that scene with the family in Episode 2, so having more of them in Episode 3 would be good, no?
 

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In my ever-in-gestation Star Wars edits, I lose the nonsense about Padme "losing the will to live" (Anakin chokes her nearly to death, and then she dies just after giving birth). But then I also intend to cut the line in RotJ about Leia remembering her mother. Letting Padme live doesn't really resolve the issue. If Luke and Leia are twins, how come Leia can remember Padme but Luke can't? Would Padme really have abandoned Luke to be raised by Owen and Beru if she was still alive and raising Leia?

Mind you, I'm not telling anyone else how to handle their edits. I'm explaining the choices I intend to make. There is no perfect solution, so whatever anyone does is just one's own best guess as to how to fix it with the footage available.

Also, it's often easier to snip one small part out of the OT rather than try to make the PT fit exactly. For instance, I intend to cut Ben's line in Ep. IV about Anakin being "a great pilot and a good friend." We see no examples of those things anywhere in the PT, and it's a tiny snip that doesn't drastically alter Ep. IV. It's not because Ep. IV is flawed; it's just a matter of making the best of what we have to work with.

And again, that's just my way of doing it. I actually look forward to seeing the "Padme lives" edits because it's a unique and innovative way to handle the problem, and as I said, there is no one perfect solution.
 

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What's wrong with Leia remembering Jimmy Smits' wife instead of Natalie Portman? That's how I always interpreted it, and no need to edit ROTJ.
 

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TV's Frink said:
What's wrong with Leia remembering Jimmy Smits' wife instead of Natalie Portman? That's how I always interpreted it, and no need to edit ROTJ.

That's who I feel Leia was talking about as well. The only problem with it is Luke says, "Your real mother" and Leia doesn't go "Wait, what do mean my real​ mother? I was adopted??"
 

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Her "real mother" died when she was very young, the other mom could have easily been Smits' second wife.

If we go down the road of editing the OT, there are all sorts of inconsistencies to "fix." Better make Obi remember R2...
 

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TV's Frink said:
If we go down the road of editing the OT, there are all sorts of inconsistencies to "fix." Better make Obi remember R2...

Actually, in the new novelization 'The Princess, the Scoundrel and the Farm Boy', Ben whispers to R2 "Good to be flying with you again, old friend" - or something like that... ;-)
 

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Don't get me started on novelizations...
 

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It's all very clear if you read the cereal boxes.
 

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It's easy to fix the Ben/R2 issue. Just remember that Ben lies straight up to Luke's face about nearly killing his father. Saying he doesn't know R2 would be a walk in the park.
 

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TV's Frink said:
Her "real mother" died when she was very young, the other mom could have easily been Smits' second wife.

But there's no story purpose in Luke asking about that. He's thinking about his birth father and how he never really had a family like that. He wants to learn something about his own birth mother, to have something to hang on to. Up until this point in his life, he knew no one who he could ask about his mother. (Actually, he probably did ask Owen and Beru, who gave some hastily made-up answer.)

Asking Leia about her adoptive mother would be rather random and non sequitur. He's not related to Ms. Organa and he's never met her either.
 

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DominicCobb said:
It's all very clear if you read the cereal boxes.
I don't know if I can like this enough.
 

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L8wrtr said:
It's easy to fix the Ben/R2 issue. Just remember that Ben lies straight up to Luke's face about nearly killing his father. Saying he doesn't know R2 would be a walk in the park.

Yup, but he does not say that he does not know R2.
He does not "seem to remember ever owning a droid."
So, either:
1 - he really lost a good portion of his memory.
2 - he lies, lies and lies again.
3 - he never felt like R2 was "his". Or any droids. So what he says is true. From a certain point of view.
 

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I post this every time the topic of Obi-wan's lies comes up. :p
 

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TMBTM said:
Yup, but he does not say that he does not know R2.
He does not "seem to remember ever owning a droid."
So, either:
1 - he really lost a good portion of his memory.
2 - he lies, lies and lies again.
3 - he never felt like R2 was "his". Or any droids. So what he says is true. From a certain point of view.
Well, just like with Episode 2 fanedits, someone could dub a line in when it cuts away after he says "Hello there! [cut]-Artoo!" so the audience can make the logical jump that they know each other.
 

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Fanedit wise, you just have to treat the prequels as a separate (But sorta similar) continuity. The two trilogies cannot be tallied up, that way madness lies. e.g. Padme needs to die at the end of ROTS, because the two weirdo space-monks wouldn't be able to abduct her son otherwise.

I still struggle to conceive of a credible reason to explain how Luke and Leia could be separated at birth, while their mother was still living? Maybe if there had been a prophecy specifically stating "The son of Skywalker would destroy the Sith" and Anakin was only aware that his wife was pregnant with one child (Because space Ultra-Scans are cr*p?) then maybe it would make sense that only Luke had to be hidden from Palpatine/Vader.
 

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Now I try to see the PT as kind of peplum movies. It's old fashioned (in the way the "romance" is done for example), cheesy at parts, you obviously have some anachronisms (with the OT) but in the end you don't care because you know it's not exactly what happened. It's "canon legend" to me. It's there. It gives you the back story. But you don't have to trust everything it says.
 
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