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She holds a knife to his throat, he doesn’t resist, but she loves him too much to actually end his life. The rest plays out as normal iirc.

I’m guessing it was cut because the idea of Anakin dying at that point is absurd, so the scene would have no tension. It’s a shame though, it would make Padmé a lot more tragic (knowing she needs to kill him but being Unable to even with the fate of the galaxy at stake) and Anakin a lot more evil in direct comparison (since he has fallen so far that he Can kill her). It would also make his accusation that Padmé brought Obi-Wan to kill him make waaaaaay more sense.

I would say that Padmé being in denial as she is in the film is probably more realistic?

But SW has never cared about that, it cares about story and themes and characters and tragedy, so they really should have gone with this ending.