Originally posted by: Jumpman
Go-Mer,
CO's right. Episode IV was only meant to mimic the Saturday serial's he loved. He never really had anything but a backstory outline for the Prequels, just to give weight and context to the Original Trilogy.
He did mention that if he ever would go back and tell the backstory that they would be different in tone and style. But, he didn't have it all planned out. He had the highlights in outline form as CO said. But, there are hints in his outlines and drafts for the Original Star Wars of what the Prequels could shape up to be like if he made them. The biggest hint was the Prologue to the original Star Wars novel.
Still, I think you and I, are the only ones at the moment who believe that he made it work quite well, even if he didn't have it all planned out to the letter.
And what's this issue about the word youngling? It's just a word.
Go-Mer,
CO's right. Episode IV was only meant to mimic the Saturday serial's he loved. He never really had anything but a backstory outline for the Prequels, just to give weight and context to the Original Trilogy.
He did mention that if he ever would go back and tell the backstory that they would be different in tone and style. But, he didn't have it all planned out. He had the highlights in outline form as CO said. But, there are hints in his outlines and drafts for the Original Star Wars of what the Prequels could shape up to be like if he made them. The biggest hint was the Prologue to the original Star Wars novel.
Still, I think you and I, are the only ones at the moment who believe that he made it work quite well, even if he didn't have it all planned out to the letter.
And what's this issue about the word youngling? It's just a word.
As far as youngling is concerned, I take it as this, a young jedi is called a youngling. A young "regular" kid is called a child. Much like Obi-Wan is a man and also a jedi, young Ani at the end of Episode I was a youngling and a child as well. That's my take anyway.
I wanted to take my girlfriend to see Episode III in the theaters. She wondered how come I liked Star Wars so much. She had only seen Episode I at that point and didn't like it too much. I convinced her that we would watch all six movies in order together (including the Clone Wars cartoons). So we watched I and II on DVD, and she liked II a lot more than part I. She and I really liked the romantic aspect of it. At that point she couldn't wait to continue the Saga. I tried to get us to watch both volumes of Clone Wars before going to the moves to see Episode III, but we ended up seeing I, II, III, Clone Wars 1 & 2, then IV, V and VI. It's a totally different (and IMO better) watching them that way. As soon as we saw the title "A New Hope" it was so uplifting after seeing the sad ending of "Revenge of the Sith". Her questions about the OT were totally different. Does Leia know Darth Vader is her father? Does she find out? When? Does Luke know? Find out? When? Brother and sister? Do they know? And we couldn't stop picturing Anakin inside the Darth Vader suit. And yes, that was a good thing. It was also really cool to see the Anakin we remembered from "Sith" at the end of Return of the Jedi. It even goes along with what Obi Wan says in ANH. "Your father was murdered and betrayed by Darth Vader", which from a certain point of view, was true. We had no problem believing that the good in Anakin all but died at the same time as Mace Windu, and the young ghost makes PERFECT sence. Her favorite SW films are II, III and VI.