Originally posted by: Tim Lehrbach
I actually hadn't thought about the senario in detail...it's pretty funny actually.
It boils down to Lucas trying to fill plot holes, but made more in the process.
I think the initial idea was distorted in the prequels, In the ROTJ novel it's kind of expanded on (which Lucas approved, but has since been abandoned).
From ROTJ Novel
"When your father left, he didn't know your mother was pregnant. Your mother and I knew he would find out eventually, but we wanted to keep you both as safe as possible, for as long as possible."
Instead Lucas changed it so Anakin did know about her being pregnant, he ends up turning because he has visions of her dying during childbirth, the unborn child may have something to do with the turn, but you're given the impression it has more to do with learning the power to save his wife from death.
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"When I saw what had become of him,I tried to dissuade him, to draw him back from the dark side. We fought...your father fell into a molten pit, when your father clawed his way out of that fiery pool, the change had been burned into him forever".
Again more changes, Anakin catches on fire at the bank of a molten river instead of falling into a pit, how he burned up isn't really that important, but the fact that Kenobi never sticks around to see him climb up the bank of the river, or pit as it was...adds more confusion to the logic of their thinking.
And the Leia "remembering" thing:
""...and your mother took Leia to live as the daughter of Senator Organa, on Alderaan".
You can tell it was the plan to have Anakin's wife survive and go live on Alderaan, then die from some unknown cause like a broken heart or some nonsense, when Leia is little (since Leia remembers some details in ROTJ) ..... I guess Lucas didn't feel like he could let Padme survive Episode 3, and leave her death unexplained between the movies, which is understandable I guess...He could have painted himself out of the corner with Anakin causing life threatening injuries to Padme, and having her die after spending some time with Leia or something....blech.
But basically he changed so much stuff around on these prequels, all it did was make Kenobi and Yoda look like illogical cowards, he turned Anakin into a desperate idiot ..instead of being obsessed with gaining power, and Padme' a melodramatic depressive.
I actually hadn't thought about the senario in detail...it's pretty funny actually.
It boils down to Lucas trying to fill plot holes, but made more in the process.
I think the initial idea was distorted in the prequels, In the ROTJ novel it's kind of expanded on (which Lucas approved, but has since been abandoned).
From ROTJ Novel
"When your father left, he didn't know your mother was pregnant. Your mother and I knew he would find out eventually, but we wanted to keep you both as safe as possible, for as long as possible."
Instead Lucas changed it so Anakin did know about her being pregnant, he ends up turning because he has visions of her dying during childbirth, the unborn child may have something to do with the turn, but you're given the impression it has more to do with learning the power to save his wife from death.
and
"When I saw what had become of him,I tried to dissuade him, to draw him back from the dark side. We fought...your father fell into a molten pit, when your father clawed his way out of that fiery pool, the change had been burned into him forever".
Again more changes, Anakin catches on fire at the bank of a molten river instead of falling into a pit, how he burned up isn't really that important, but the fact that Kenobi never sticks around to see him climb up the bank of the river, or pit as it was...adds more confusion to the logic of their thinking.
And the Leia "remembering" thing:
""...and your mother took Leia to live as the daughter of Senator Organa, on Alderaan".
You can tell it was the plan to have Anakin's wife survive and go live on Alderaan, then die from some unknown cause like a broken heart or some nonsense, when Leia is little (since Leia remembers some details in ROTJ) ..... I guess Lucas didn't feel like he could let Padme survive Episode 3, and leave her death unexplained between the movies, which is understandable I guess...He could have painted himself out of the corner with Anakin causing life threatening injuries to Padme, and having her die after spending some time with Leia or something....blech.
But basically he changed so much stuff around on these prequels, all it did was make Kenobi and Yoda look like illogical cowards, he turned Anakin into a desperate idiot ..instead of being obsessed with gaining power, and Padme' a melodramatic depressive.
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Even though it is in the novel, and not in the movie, it shows Lucas did not have this 'master' plan even on how Anakins unamed wife survived or died at time of filming the OT, or how Anakin turned either. Also in ROTJ novel, Uncle Owen is Kenobis brother, which would make more sense, cause it would make it so Anakin would never know where they live, when in the PT, Luke lives in the same exact place his half-brother still does, under the same last name, SKYWALKER! How stupid is that!
This is where Lucas didn't plan out the PT, so it hurts the consistency with the OT: Anakin is born on Tatooine, and creates C-3PO, who is owned by Owen Lars, his half-brother, who never moves after Anakin becomes Darth Vader, and keeps this special boy Lukes last name of Skywalker, only to encounted the same droid twenty years later, who is along with the same droid Anakin & Padme brought with them when they came in AOTC, what one big coincidence!
Oh yeah, and also, if Palpatine created Anakin through the Midiclorians, then now the end scene in ROTJ is Grandpa Palpatine electrocuting Grandson Skywalker as Father Skywalker watches, and then Father Skywalker kills Grandpa Palpatine to save Grandson Skywalker two movies removed of Father Skywalker blowing up Daughter Leia's planet, and then freezing in carbonite her boyfriend! Geez, just don't let her date him if you don't approve Darth!
What the Prequels have done, is make me realize how stupid these characters are for the choices they made, Thanks George!