Originally posted by: Sluggo
what do you mean by this andy? are you saying that the clonetroopers were bad guys in the original SW universe?

Sorry - that wasn't very clear. What I meant was, Mandalorians would have been cool to feature in the pre-OT Star Wars universe, but they never materialized. Nope, we got legions of Clonetroopers in the final draft of the PT instead, and the rest is history.

So, I guess I'm saying, the little tiny hints about event before SW made in 1977/1980/1983 were and are still far more fascinating (and better ideas) to me than the results of millions of dollars of movie-making in the past decade.

I really wish someone with the skills could do a nicely written rewrite of the PT to make it fall more in step with the original elements of the story. I mean, think of all the things you imagined back when you were a kid about how Anakin became Vader, the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan's past, older characters in the OT like Mon Mothma and Tarkin, etc. Was ANY of it in the PT, except the volcano fight? I really don't think a million Star Wars fans writing a million different ideas would have come up with Jar Jar Binks, "Ani," midichlorians and the like (unless they were 9 - even I wrote a story about Boba Fett escaping the Sarlacc - how stupid I was).