With the other comment, I don't mean telling a completely different story than what is hinted about in the OOT, but rather telling it a different way. The Trade Federation/Seperatists/clone storylines are so poorly-developed. One of the few intriguing aspects of the PT for me is the arch of Palpatine's rise to power, and playing the various sides against one another in this master plot. I think that part and the political stuff is decent, but the specifics of Anakin's becoming a jedi and falling to the dark side, the origins of the twins, and relating it all to the revised original trilogy totally blows. There is a list of a million problems with it, which people have covered again and again here, so it doesn't make sense for me to repeat them. What I would love to see are ideas for the prequels that don't have any reference to ideas and characters that came from anywhere other than the Lucas conception of the prequels. The re-writes and ideas I've seen always refer to bettering what is there, and other than the Palpatine stuff, I don't really know what is worth salvaging from that. I don't mind Qui-Gon or Darth Maul, but given that they were tied up in the rest of the garbage and they both die for basically no reason in the first film, theres a bigger and better role that both could have played.
With the other comment, I don't mean telling a completely different story than what is hinted about in the OOT, but rather telling it a different way. The Trade Federation/Seperatists/clone storylines are so poorly-developed. One of the few intriguing aspects of the PT for me is the arch of Palpatine's rise to power, and playing the various sides against one another in this master plot. I think that part and the political stuff is decent, but the specifics of Anakin's becoming a jedi and falling to the dark side, the origins of the twins, and relating it all to the revised original trilogy totally blows. There is a list of a million problems with it, which people have covered again and again here, so it doesn't make sense for me to repeat them. What I would love to see are ideas for the prequels that don't have any reference to ideas and characters that came from anywhere other than the Lucas conception of the prequels. The re-writes and ideas I've seen always refer to bettering what is there, and other than the Palpatine stuff, I don't really know what is worth salvaging from that. I don't mind Qui-Gon or Darth Maul, but given that they were tied up in the rest of the garbage and they both die for basically no reason in the first film, theres a bigger and better role that both could have played.