Then it truly would have been a waste of time.
It is a waste of time. What's the reasoning behind it? I can sorta understand a fan-edit, because then there's an actual MOVIE to watch, there's an end result that works in the same medium the original does. but this isn't even an infinities thing. I don't know what it is. If you want to exercise your writing skills, re-writing, in prose form, the story behind a finished film, is possibly one of the poorer ideas I've heard of.
and I think this is nicer than if I actually critiqued your writing. You've got ideas but I don't think you're actually taking the time to learn how to implement them correctly. it's sort of like the dude in the covers thread who obviously hasn't gotten the knack of photoshop yet, but his faith in his idea is making him post up some pretty shoddy stuff. It's nice that you feel so passionately about your idea, but you need to step back and look at it from a different angle than INSIDE of it. And when you do that, I think you'll realize writing a fan-fiction retcon prose version of a finished movie, not a movie novel, not a movie screenplay, but a finished MOVIE, is actually a pretty big waste of time, regardless of how passionately you want to pursue the idea, in spite of how limited your experience is with the tools you need. I mean, I've read your reasoning, but it doesn't really fit with what you're actually doing. It looks like what you're doing tends to serve this purpose:
a) You want to see your name credited next to the words "Star Wars" in some capacity
b) You want to prove yourself as a storyteller
c) you want to criticize the movies without having to settle for something as ultimately ineffectual as a movie review.
unfortunately, you've shortchanged yourself by assuming reading Joseph Campbell and watching the Star Wars movies a lot is going to automatically put you in Lucas' headspace, and the mode you've tried to use as some sort of elaborate film criticism is even MORE ineffectual than a poorly written review. I mean--what are you going to do with this thing when you're done? Make it a script? Then what? A script is a recipe for a MOVIE. You gonna reshoot the movies? Turn it into an "Infinities" comic book instead? Unless you can get to THAT point somewhere along the line, this is a wholly fruitless endeavor. Now, of course, if this was a wholly ORIGINAL story of yours, in your own universe with your own characters, that'd be something completely different. But it's not.
that's pretty constructive criticism, I think.