logo Sign In

Post #1470394

Author
CaptainFaraday
Parent topic
Community Focus Thread 1: The Phantom Menace
Link to post in topic
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1470394/action/topic#1470394
Date created
3-Feb-2022, 7:39 AM

I wasn’t thinking about it when I watched the chance cube scene, but, I think it could work with a bit of clever editing. Make the bet for two slaves, like Qui-Gon originally wanted; Watto disagrees that a pod is worth two slaves, but greedily agrees to let chance decide, pulling out his weighted chance cube. He rolls it, Qui-Gon uses the Force, Watto is pissed off, telling Anakin that if Qui-Gon isn’t careful he’ll end up owning him too, etc as the rest plays out like the theatrical.

The only thing I can’t figure out off the top of my head is what to replace “red, the boy, blue, his mother” with to convey the idea that red = both and blue = neither.