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I'm sure no one cares, but since I wrote these I figure I might as well put them out there. This is what I would have done if Lucas handed me the scripts for the prequels and said "don't change it too much but make it not suck."

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_Attack of the Clones_, major differences:

Final scene: Padme has been captured by Maul and Dooku. Anakin starts to go to rescue her alone, but Obi-wan tells him to that he needs him to fight the droid army. "Control your feelings, Anakin. Remember the Code!" Anakin, remembering what happened to his mother, replies, "To hell with the code! I'm going my own way." He grabs a lightsabre off of a fallen Jedi and jumps into the fray with two sabres. Obi-wan leads a hopeless battle against the droid army and Jango Fett. Eventually Anakin ends up on a Separatist cruiser in the low atmosphere that is bombarding the surface, where he meets Darth Maul in the hangar bay.

Anakin fights with two sabres against Maul's lightstaff. Maul clearly has the upper hand throughout the fight, being quicker and much more skilled, but Anakin is physically stronger and stronger with the Force, and it becomes a stalemate. As the fight marches on, both Maul and Anakin become visibly furious that they cannot seem to win -- it is a first for both. Without Maul guarding her, Padme is able to escape and slowly makes her way to the hangar bay. Meanwhile Obi-wan manages to defeat Jango in a crazy battle that features all of Jango's gadgets and all of Obi-wan's Jedi abilities and cunning.

In the end, Anakin gives into his anger, lets out a roar and calls upon the full fury of the Dark Side to defeat Maul with a tornado of attacks. Padme arrives in the hangar bay just to see the end of the fight. They do the "forbidden love" kiss. However, Count Dooku arrives and interrupts them with a Force lightning attack that stuns them both.

Anakin tries to deflect Dooku's lightning but is not strong enough. The scene is similar to the end of ROTJ as Anakin lies on the ground getting fried. Finally, Padme distracts Dooku long enough to give Anakin a second. Too weak to use the Force, he reaches his right arm down a hatch to turn an emergency decompression switch. When he does, all of the doors and hatches in the hangar shut, and his right arm is crushed. The hangar bay decompresses and Dooku goes flying out into the atmosphere.

Padme is crying when she goes to help Anakin, who tells her "I will never leave you." She cuts his crushed arm off just below the shoulder and helps him off the ship. The movie ends with their secret marriage.

Other changes:

* Anakin is more of a Han Solo-type character -- he has a cockiness that comes with things coming so easily to him, and also a sharp wit. He gets along with Obi-wan well and there is a running gag between the two of them who "owes" the other one.

* When Anakin is assigned to "a babysitting mission" (later to be revealed guarding Padme), he remarks, "Can't be any worse than babysitting Obi-wan."

* I would COMPLETELY rewrite the "love scene" dialogue.

* Increase the length of the Palpatine/Anakin scene to increase it's meaning later.