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Post #1077320

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Jeebus
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The Saturday Morning Prequel Trilogy
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Date created
18-May-2017, 10:55 PM

For me, the thing I like about this idea isn’t that it preserves the twist, but rather it almost totally eliminates the problem of Anakin’s sudden turn. We, as the audience, are with Obi-Wan when Anakin turns; we don’t know what happens back on Coruscant. We are with Yoda when Obi-Wan goes to fight Anakin, we only get to see Obi-Wan return with Padme in his arms. We’re left to wonder what happened on Mustafar. Even if the hypothetical first-time viewer knows that Obi-Wan trained Anakin, and that Anakin becomes Vader; they still have the luxury of piecing together what exactly happened on Mustafar as the OT progresses.