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Post #227570

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Darth-Adroit
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20 years ago, would anyone believe...
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20-Jul-2006, 7:03 AM
I’ll try a few:

- That the more George Lucas has to do with Star Wars the less the films feel like Star Wars.
- That the juvenile nature of certain segments of Jedi was not the exception, but the new rule for Star Wars Films.
- That a single Star Wars Video Game (KOTOR) would be deeper, more enthralling and written with more attention to detail than all three PT films. All with a budget of less than 1/100th of one PT film.
- That Ben Kenobi was not a rebellious, bad ass of a Jedi, but the stodgiest and most orthodox Jedi in the order and one that lost more fights than he won.
- That Ben would actually argue AGAINST training Anakin.
- That Chewie would see one of the greatest Jedi (Yoda) in action and never mention it to Han. In light of ROTS one can only see Chewie as an asshole for not speaking up when Han was bagging on the force in the OT.
- That Anakin would not be a spectacular fighter pilot when Ben first met him.
- That Ben would not feel how strong the force was in Anakin, but rely on the transmission of blood molecules into his PDA for this information. I guess I figured Ben would sense the greatness in Anakin the same way John the Baptist sensed it in Jesus. Instead Ben was just opening a PDF or an Excel file and prattling off numbers.

As many have pointed out George could’ve done a much better job with the PT if he would’ve just remained true to his own established canon. There are issues where there didn’t need to be issues. Just make Anakin 19 in Episode I and 90% of the contradictions and lack of character development in the PT could’ve been avoided.