8 Star Wars Movie Scenes Where Reshoots Are Painfully Obvious

While most of the entries so far have focused on filmmaking goofs and inconsistencies, this one is a little more complicated. Even more so than the other prequels, Revenge of the Sith underwent radical changes all the way through production, with entire storylines being changed or dropped after filming had wrapped.

One character hit the most by these alterations was Padme. In the finished movie, her character mostly functions to motivate Anakin, with his fear of her impending death cementing his road to the Dark Side. Nothing sums up the mishandling of this story more than her death though, which infamously happened because she "lost the will to live".

Deleted scenes focused more on Padme's active role in building a resistance to Palpatine though, with the character initially going as far as helping form the rebellion to come. Her active role in fighting back against the Empire initially brought her face to face with Anakin in the climax, as revealed by a key designer on the prequels, Iain McCaig.

Speaking about Padme's alternate arc, he explained that the original plan was for her to confront Anakin on Mustafar and even try to assassinate him, knowing the threat he posed to the galaxy. Ultimately she'd relent, loving him too much to do it.

Then, however, as McCaig explains it: "Enter Obi-Wan. Anakin freaks out, kills Padme, well almost."

It's unclear what was actually shot, what was scrapped in production and what didn't make it to the shooting script, but we do know Anakin's fear of Padme's death leading him to the dark side definitely came in the reshoots.

All these changes resulted in her character being weirdly sidelined in the finished movie, and that painfully odd death scene.