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Originally posted by: CO
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
impossible, this could not have happened no matter how hard gorge tried, why because we knew it was coming. i think it would have be soooooooo much better if lucas had kept everything about the PT quite from the begining. so that no one knew about the clone wars, or the anakin obiwan battle, or any of that. so much fo the PT was ruined by the fact that people already knew so many key plot points, think for a second how good the PT would have been if boom outta nowhere the clone wars started in AOTCs, no one would ahve known about it and everyone would been like holy shit a galactic waar OMG. or when anakin started fighting Obiwan, if the fact that obiwan had beat anakin but a volcano and left him for dead wasnt know think about how that scene would have been. that right there is lucas's big mistake. if the PT was 100% peoples imagination and stuff they got from the OT the PT would have been so much better. cause you would have had "I AM YOUR FATHER" surprises in there.

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I definitely agree with your post, the biggest achilles heel of the prequels is that we knew the story. While your watching TPM, you knew that ObiWan, Padme, little Anakin, Palpatine, and Yoda were in no real sense of danger, because we knew, except for Padme's fate, they would be in Episode IV.

The biggest challenge Lucas faced was our imagination. We all had an idea of how Anakin turns to Darth Vader, how the duel would be, how they would wisk Luke & Leia away to their foster parents, how the Jedi would be taken out one by one, and how Yoda and Kenobi would go into hiding. That is pretty much the main facts of the prequels, where are the suprises?

Sure, the PT could have been better, with Lucas letting go from TOTAL control of the PT, and more like he did in the OT. Sure the kiddiness factor could have been toned down in the TPM, and well I won't defend Jar Jar, that was just a mistake.

I think the real reason the PT would never be as good was the characters. No matter if Lucas did things many different ways than the way he filmed these movies, Luke, Leia, and Han Solo are just lovable characters that cannot be matched. They had PERFECT chemistry, and that was like lightning in a bottle. The PT was about ObiWan, Padme, and Anakin, even if they were cast to perfection I still don't think we would have loved them as much as the OT big 3.

I have to agree but it doesnt excuse the crap like Jar Jar Caotain Tarpals and two headed pod race announcers etc and pointless plot points like Qui-Gonn finding Anakin, Anakin building 3p0 etc (which leave possible inconsistencies and things up to the viewers interpretation) etc, I was happy to give Lucas full liscene to bring the backstory to life without my imagination clouding the issue, To me some parts the things I imagined were exceeded and pleasently suprised by Lucas' interpretation of things, but others I felt dissapointed by his interpretaion of things which could have been done better, and the overall exection of the P.T story(though I like the basic story) he had put in front of us was not realised to its full potential,and which I will always feel was damaged by the crappier elements of TPM and it flowed over in to the next two movies, I will always contend to the end that Lucas should have got a decent collebrating team(eg Empire Strikes Back) to work with him, instead of basically having doing everything which would seen less critism of the dialouge etc and then maybe/maybe not we would have had the chemistry(I doubt it personally myself) of the big 3 in the O.T and would made certain things more convincing, and maybe the crappier elements of the P.T would have been discarded,