Lately I’ve begun brainstorming a way of turning the darkest, most downbeat Star Wars prequel of them all into a feelgood movie that leaves the characters more or less in a happy place…sort of.

Anakin will be haunted by a potential turn to the dark side and the potential loss of Padme in childbirth through his dreams, and there are times in the film where you will see him presented with choices to go down, but through it all, even in moments of weakness, Anakin chooses not to act upon them. Palpatine is captured, Dooku is disabled and captured, Grevious is killed

It’s not all light smiles though, Order 66 still happens, and Jedi are still killed, it just happens much earlier in the movie so as to set up the council fleeing into the outer rims, setting up the movie’s climatic act, which just so happens to the first act of Revenge of the Sith!

I’m calling this “The Triumph of Skywaker”