TPM-AOTC-ROTS

After watching _Revenge of the Sith_, my first task was to complete a project I've had planned since I first heard that George was actually producing a prequel trilogy.

During one of my high-school summers, I took the original Star Wars trilogy and wove all three movies together, scene by scene. You had the intro crawl and the Tantive IV being chased and captured by the star destroyer, and as soon as you expect it to cut to Leia sneaking about, you get the intro crawl from Empire and the probe droid landing, followed by the opening crawl from Jedi and Vader mentioning to Jerjerrod (or whatever his name is) that the Emperor is not as forgiving as Vader is. And quickly back to Leia and Artoo, then to Hoth, then to the droids going to Jabba's palace, etc. etc.

So I did the same for Episodes 1, 2, & 3.

Last night, I started watching the finished product. A couple small glitches (eg clicks and pauses), but that's okay. Especially when the image quality goes in and out and is bad most of the time. But at least the sound quality is good. Because we all watch Star Wars movies for the music, right?

A couple interesting juxtapositions presented themselves. Obi-Wan and Anakin are riding the elevator up to Amidala's apartment (Hayden Christensen's first scene in Clones) and then it cuts to the same two characters/actors riding up in an elevator on General Grevious's starship. Padme is comforting young Anakin after they leave Tatooine about how he really misses his mother. It then cuts to the scene where Anakin sneaks into the Sandpeople's camp and watches his mother die (and then starts slaughtering the Sandpeople). One juxtaposition in slightly worse taste is the scene where the green-girl jedi is shot in the back (repeatedly) by stormtroopers, then it cuts to a bleacherful of people standing up and cheering. Well, Anakin just won the podrace, after all.