Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
Well, that's the problem. All original fans had 16 years to come up with their own ideas for what had to happen. And when it didn't, well...

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That is where i disagree, and I am a fan who has been there since '77. I never had any story of the PT in my mind for years after ROTJ, it was always episodes 7,8,9 that I had in my mind. Since ROTJ, every summer I would hope to hear news about The Sequel Trilogy, and the further adventures of Luke, Han, and Leia. I envisoned Luke as the Yoda of that trilogy rebuilding the jedi-council, Han & Leia getting married, and both Lukes kids and Leia/Hans kids being the stars of that trilogy, and possibly one of them turning to the darkside.

For the PT, the only thing I thought about was the duel on the Volcano between Anakin & Kenobi, and that is it. Going into TPM, I had no idea where Lucas was going to take us with 1,2,3 and I was really open to what was going to happen. Then after TPM, and then AOTC, and then finally ROTS, I started seeing all the things that Lucas missed, and then I started to get frustrated:

-Obiwan/Anakin/Uncle Owen relationship, where is it? Why does Owen hate Kenobi?
-The force ghost issue, anything specific?
-The birth of the rebellion, deleted scenes?
-This cleverly laid out plan to hide the twins is done in a two minute montage?
-The clone wars, watch the cartoons?
-The fate of Padme, why doesn't Luke remember her?
-The first prequel, Anakin & Obiwan are secondary characters?
-The stupid tie-ins to the OT, Jango Fett, Anakin building C-3PO, Death Star built in 20 years, Owen doesn't remember C-3po, a droid he owned for 10 years?

As I said, I started evaluating the PT after I realized Lucas missed out on so many great plot points, and instead of developing the ObiWan/Anakin/Uncle Owen relationship which would have really tied in to the conversation in ANH, we get nothing in detail, just Lucas putting it in cause he has to find a way for Uncle Owen to meet Anakin. That is the biggest failure of the PT, is great plot points like this and the birth of the rebellion, really good subjects that would have enriched the OT were pushed aside for a Jango Fett/Boba Fett father-son side plot, and other bad tie-ins that were just thrown in there as a time filler.

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