ChainsawAsh said:
WheresBlackhawk said:
Breathe, ChainsawAsh, It's all good. It may just take some time to get everyone on the same page. Patience is a virtue. I'm with ya, man. Like you and Erik said, if we pay too much attention to the prequels or the EU or the old scripts we have already blown the CONCEPT we were going for. A few pages back I posted THE FACTS as SHOWN in the OT. Those are really the ONLY things we need to stick to. As someone previously said, this PT should be exciting whether you watch it 4-6, 1-3 or 1-6. If we only stick to the facts, it will make the whole project more exciting for the viewer, because they won't know what to expect.

Erik... I like some of your ideas, but i don't think we have the time to spend an entire movie on just Obiwan's development. AND I think we really need to try to make Yoda a PRESENCE without being PRESENT. He should be built up as being, frankly, the most powerful Jedi, but not seen on screen to make his appearance in ESB that much more of a surprise. Luke was surprised...after all the build up, so should we.

Still curious about people's ideas for the wars.

Sorry if I came across as a jerk in my last post, I really didn't mean to. I have a very set idea of what I'd like this to be, but it's difficult for me to communicate that in words since it's not fully-formulated in my head, either.

That concept art is pretty interesting. We should take a look at some OT-era unused McQuarrie art, too - he had some good stuff that wasn't used if I recall.

BTW, my real name is Erik, so if I get mixed up and think you're talking to me when you're talking to Erikstormtrooper, I apologize in advance. It's already starting to get confusing to me.

It depends on what you want to do with these prequels.

I first watched ANH back in 1977 when it plain old STAR WARS and it blew me away, I read every bit of the background story that turned up in magazines and books, and this largely fuled my expectations of what the prequels were to be like.

Then came TPM and not only was it a not very good film but it largely ignored all the little titbits of the story that we were fed for the past twenty odd years.

This is why I'm so protective of the background elements that matter most (Obi Wan is the cause of Vader's need of a breath screen, Vader is THE Dark Lord Of The Sith, Boba Fett is somehow connected to the Shocktroopers of the Clone Wars which fought against the Jedi. Leia was old enough to remember her real mother before she died).

There is still a lot of breathing space between those points but to ignore them is (in my opinion) making much the same mistakes that Lucas made.

It's like growing up an orphan and wishing you knew your father only to find out the man you thought had killed him was him.