The difficult task is having Prequel Obi-Wan youthful, powerful, and so on, yet still keeping him directly recognizable and wholly related to Sir Alec Guinness's original interpretation. Anakin really wouldn't be that difficult. Honestly, in I he simply needs to be a more passionate/spontaneous/energetic Luke, and II a more experienced young Jedi, and in III...well it all falls from there. I think everyone here feels that having him fall to the Dark Side basically because of a girl was just juvenile as can be! Anakin should have fallen due to the pure seductive hold that the lure of the Dark Side exerts on a susceptible user of The Force, along with his impatience, anger, and desire for Galactic order and security.

A part of me now believes that there should not have been Prequel films. Perhaps its all due to hindsight; having to see a great franchise and host of characters all get replaced with a worthless new cast of characters and mediocre films, and the complete and utter ruination of what was an incredibly promising back-story. At any rate, I now think that it would have been best if Lucas had simply not gone in the Prequel direction and had perhaps even kept the Prequel era on a lock-down, leaving it to fans like us to do what we're doing...think of our own immediate back-story. You could have the Tales of the Jedi and Ancient Sith. etc stories, just not the Prequels. Wasn't it better with mystery behind Kenobi, Skywalker Sr., and the Fall of the Republic/Rise of the Empire?!? I'd now say so.