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Post #905268

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Wexter
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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Date created
7-Feb-2016, 10:52 AM

So you are proposing that the backstory should have gone something like this: Vader conceives two children, but they are both taken away before he learns about their existence – the boy is placed with someone named Skywalker, who wants to raise him as his own, but is soon murdered by Vader. I like it a lot, but it would really strengthen Luke’s motivation to go bad: not only did they blatantly lie to him, they even kidnapped him from his real family.

This would make it a very different story from what we know as Star Wars today. Even though I wouldn’t have gone this route, I fully agree, that ROTJ was the first film that really messed up the whole backstory. If only they had it planned more precisely from the start and didn’t deviate from the plans.

I would like the sequel trilogy (in the form of a good fanedit) to be compatible with the OT, in which case Leia would have to remain Luke’s sister. I still have no idea, why they needed to make them siblings in ROTJ. If they decided to trim the initial plans, they should have just dropped the sister element altogether and it wouldn’t make the slightest of difference for the overall plot.