If you’ve read the drafts of the original screenplay, you know he not only reused some unused concepts in the PT, but unused names. Utapau, Mace, Windu, Cleeg, and a bunch of other names come straight off the pages of early drafts. Quite fun in some ways.

I really hate it that he thinks he has to spout so much BS about his original plans. I’d be far more interested in the twists and turns he went through. I’d love to hear what his real original plans were for Vader (the name is intriguing). Did the father aspect come to him when he picked the name or later. But we will never know because he thinks he has to cover his tracks and make us think he always intended it that way. I think there is some kernel of truth in his BS, but I want to know exactly what that is, not hear his BS. Because he may fool the casual fan but not us diehards.