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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
George's revised "vision" for the I-VI Star Wars story arc is very, very similar to the story of The Winter's Tale. A man (in this case a king) becomes jealous that his wife's expectant baby is actually the result of an affair with a close friend of his. He goes crazy and tries to kill her. The baby is spirited away from the father and adopted by an old shepherd. Sixteen years pass, and the story suddenly shifts to the grown-up child (who is a girl in this case) who, after a series of events, is reunited with her father, who has become repentant.
George's revised "vision" for the I-VI Star Wars story arc is very, very similar to the story of The Winter's Tale. A man (in this case a king) becomes jealous that his wife's expectant baby is actually the result of an affair with a close friend of his. He goes crazy and tries to kill her. The baby is spirited away from the father and adopted by an old shepherd. Sixteen years pass, and the story suddenly shifts to the grown-up child (who is a girl in this case) who, after a series of events, is reunited with her father, who has become repentant.
Could it be that this was one of the influences of the original PT story from 1983? Was Anakin to turn to the darkside and kill padme because he though she was having an affair with Obi Wan? Certainly that seems to be where Lucas was taking things, though this jealousy aspect was almost completely written out of the final film. To translate it to Star Wars: A man (in this case The Chosen One) becomes jealous that his wife's expectant baby is actually the result of an affair with a close friend of his, Obi Wan Kenobi. He turns to the darkside and kills her. The baby, Luke, is spirited away from the father and adopted by an old moisture farmer. Twenty years pass, and the story suddenly shifts to the grown-up Luke who, after a series of events, is reunited with his father, who has become rependent and is redeemed.
Hmmm...