I was hoping to see Anakin & Ben Kenobi portrayed as great friends that get torn apart by their diverging reactions to the war around them. I imagined the final duel to take place on top of a volcano. I imagined (& hoped) the clones would be real Mandalorians in mandalorian armor. I imagined that the clone wars would be about the Mandalorian warrior race trying to conquer the republic. B/c they come from only one planet, they clone themselves in order to have a large enough army to take on the Republic. I imagined the Republic, with no standing army, relied on the Jedi & volunteer forces from various planets to fight the Mandalorians. When these proved unsuccessful, i imagined the Republic resorting to the controversial tactic of cloning the Jedi to combat the Mandalorians. This would begin tearing apart both the Republic & the Jedi order due to the strong reactions regarding the ethics of all this. The cloning Jedi thing would've tied in nicely the the whole C'baoth thing from the Thrawn trilogy, which i had just read at the time. I also remember reading something somewhere suggesting that Obi-wan might actually be "OB1" which stood for "Old Ben 1", inferring that the Ben Kenobi who teaches Luke might actually be the first clone of ben kenobi left over from the clone wars. I thought it would be really cool if the new trilogy addressed that possibility, but left it open-ended so that we never know for sure whether we're watching a clone or the real mccoy in A New Hope. I of course, assumed the Emperor would play a major part & use the events around him to rise to power. I also imagined it would look & feel like the classic trilogy & blend seemlessly together, visually speaking. I hoped they would use practical effects, makeup, puppets, and model work whenever possible, & treat CGI as a last resort for the most difficult effects. I hoped GL would only direct the first one as he had originally planned.

Looking back, i still wish we had gotten most of those things instead of what we did (maybe with the exception of Obi-wan in ANH possibly being a clone...)