adywan said:RoccondilRinon said:I just found this thread and have to say I love the idea of removing references to Naboo and calling the planet Alderaan. If it can be pulled off, it should be done.
But you would have to remove the end battle from TPM totally for a start. Remember Leia says "Alderaan is peaceful, we have no weapons" yet the Gungans do and Naboo have starfighters. Then there's the matter of Bail organa. Now in the PT a senator represents the planet. Palpatine is senator for Naboo then becomes chancellor and Padme then takes his place, but Bail is also a senator. There are just too many things that would need to be changed to make Naboo into Alderaan without making the PT even more conflicting with the OT than it is already
I would have to disagree with you there, Ady. Granted, it would take some work, but here is how you can do it:
(1) weapons: being that this is a good 20 to 40 years before ANH (if not 50), you could make it in Episode 2 or 3 (whenever the Emperor gets his complete power over the senate to create the army) that some or all worlds agreeing to the Chancellor getting his war power have to disband their own personal armies - thus Alderaan (and alot of other worlds) become weaponless and thus more open to Imperial entanglements. All it would take is one or two lines of dialogue (and not even from a main character) to state that.
(2) Padme is the Queen: she shouldn't even be in the senate. Granted, they have the bit where she gives up her Queenship to become a senator, but that can be removed or rejiggered so she is still the Queen. Thus, Palpatine is the first acting senator, who is then replaced by Bail Organa, with the Queen making her presence in the senate to warn the other worlds of the consequences of giving the Chancellor the war powers act. It would be no different that us having a President AND a representative at the UN.
- Also, get rid of the stupid "I got voted Queen again" bit. Votes and Royalty do not mix. Either you're King or Queen until death or you're something other than a monarchy.
Also also keep in mind that Leia is a princess, thus Padme almost has to remain a Queen in order for Leia to retain her royal heritage (which is kind of odd if her father is not a member of nobility).
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Another idea is to go by the first draft of THE STAR WARS, where upon Alderaan was the capital of the Empire, not Coruscant. I always imagined one of the reasons Tarkin picked Alderaan was not just that it was Princess Leia's home, but that it was the former capital of the Old Republic (which was replaced by Coruscant with the creation of the Empire - ie the contrast between Rome [the old empire] and Constantinople [the new empire]). Destroying it would be a final symbolic gesture that the Republic was truly dead.
The bottom line is that Alderaan should play a major part in the prequels to give the destruction in ANH some more weight - you know, other than the billions of people dying and all.
Besides, isn't Alderaan a much better sounding name than friggin Naboo? I mean, that sounds like something Mork would say! It's like Django Fett. Hey, if you're going to bring up Django, why not call him NERO Fett (as in Franco Nero, who played Django)? Doesn't that have a better ring to it than Django (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/)?
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Speaking of which, why is it that the simplistic and one could argue goofy names in the first 3 STAR WARS films sound cool or fitting (Greedo, Jabba the Hut, Han Solo, Darth Vader, Lobot, Rancor, Sarlacc, hell, even EWOKS, etc) and the names in the prequels sound stupid or beyond childish (Jar Jar, Padme, Naboo, Darth Maul and Sidious, COUNT DOOKU, etc)? I mean, Lucas named a villian after a Number 2 fer chrissake!
If he was intending that, couldn't he have just called him Count Bono (http://www.metatube.com/play/6374/South-Park---More-Crap.html)?