Originally posted by: musicman
Well, you still have the issue of Leia appearing in the OT as an Organa--it is explicitly referred to as Bail as her father in ANH, right, not just one of the people Obi-Wan worked with? I could've sworn she said Organa. That would take some editing to not have people putting two and two together pretty quick. Because in ROTS, the other baby gets taken with Bail--but, hmm...perhaps you could cut out Bail's line of "My wife and I have always wanted a daughter." If you leave out the naming of Leia, then it's very ambiguous.
I do think it would be cool for Leia not to turn out to be Luke's sister, and then we don't have to cut out that hilarious shot with Threepio walking up to see Leia giving Luke a kiss in ESB. And, for the record, I was one who always rooted for Luke to end up with Leia. It does seem more in the spirit of the original, you know? That whole, old-school, serial thing. The main protagonist gets the girl. And it is also in keeping with Kurtz and Ford's wishes--that Han dies. I think it would have been cool if Han died saving the team on the sail barge, and then Luke goes nuts on the criminals. It's a shame there isn't the kind of footage to accomplish that...or is there? I don't suppose there would be. Han's pretty integral to the rest of the story. Oh, well. There's my little mini-rant about how things turned out.
But at least if we can make it so Luke and Leia aren't related, then that's a help.
Well, you still have the issue of Leia appearing in the OT as an Organa--it is explicitly referred to as Bail as her father in ANH, right, not just one of the people Obi-Wan worked with? I could've sworn she said Organa. That would take some editing to not have people putting two and two together pretty quick. Because in ROTS, the other baby gets taken with Bail--but, hmm...perhaps you could cut out Bail's line of "My wife and I have always wanted a daughter." If you leave out the naming of Leia, then it's very ambiguous.
I do think it would be cool for Leia not to turn out to be Luke's sister, and then we don't have to cut out that hilarious shot with Threepio walking up to see Leia giving Luke a kiss in ESB. And, for the record, I was one who always rooted for Luke to end up with Leia. It does seem more in the spirit of the original, you know? That whole, old-school, serial thing. The main protagonist gets the girl. And it is also in keeping with Kurtz and Ford's wishes--that Han dies. I think it would have been cool if Han died saving the team on the sail barge, and then Luke goes nuts on the criminals. It's a shame there isn't the kind of footage to accomplish that...or is there? I don't suppose there would be. Han's pretty integral to the rest of the story. Oh, well. There's my little mini-rant about how things turned out.
But at least if we can make it so Luke and Leia aren't related, then that's a help.
Hmmm, Harrison Ford was all for the death of Han thing. Maybe we could convince him to film a few new scenes.
Isn't it kind of silly that they are shocked when Padme has twins? With our modern technology nobody gets shocks like this anymore right? Twins are very easily detected by ultrasound, so why would a civilization with faster than light space travel and creepy "ooba"ing robots to deliver your baby not be able to find this out? I mean it was clear Padme was pregnant so she had no reason to hid it and not go to the doctor, she lived on the weathliest planet in the galaxy and was filthy rich (do you have any idea how much an apartment like that costs in Coruscant the days!), so why wouldn't she know that she was having twins? And why wouldn't she tell her husband that she was going to have twins?
I think it might work just to lop off the scene after the birth of Luke, maybe even end with her scream and then somehow establish that she died. Since it is a robot maybe a sythezised female voice saying that we are loosing her, sir we need you to leave the room. With this Leia could potientially be Luke's sister, or not, depending on how ROTJ was edited (I don't see how Han-Leia-Luke triangle could be solved with out it though). It is easy enough to say after the fact that they were twins. Maybe after Luke's birth the next scene could be the funeral and Obi-Wan dropping Luke off at the Lars farm. It is a pretty abrupt end though. If the birth of Vader stuff was left in then I guess it would add the extra screen time needed to slow the pace of the ending to a reasonable speed. Even Lucas' ending is pretty rushed. Everything we have waited over 20 years to see happens in a tacked on blink of an eye at the end of three long and mostly pointless films.
I still think all these things should have happened in Ep. II and the closure of Padme dying, Luke being raised by Moisture Farmers, the birth of Darth Vader and the exile of Yoda and Obi should have been the premise of Ep.3. I think two confrontations between Anakin and Obi-Wan should have been made. The first was as a shock to Obi who could hardly bring himself to fight, this battle could have ended abruptly for some reason, maybe with Anakin loosing an apendage then escaping (mirroring ESB perhaps). In the next film, after Obi-Wan see what his old friend is capable of realizes that Anakin no longer exists, at the climax of the film Obi and Darth fight it out, with Anakin loosing and falling to his death, but unknown to Obi-Wan being saved by the Emperor. Of course none of this matters because that is not how it happened, I just like to dream sometimes.