Octorox said:
ChainsawAsh said:
Blackhawk, we are DEFINITELY on the same page. That just sounds amazing - God, if only the real prequels had been like this ...

And that outline makes me warm up quite a bit more to the whole "Sith" thing.

I'd comment more, but I'm still a bit overwhelmed by that outline, and I need to get some real-life stuff taken care of at the moment. But wow, fantastic job there.

TheBoot, you have some good ideas, but it feels simultaneously too similar to ideas already presented to the point where it's really not much new, and too similar to the prequels as they exist today. I know that seems contradictory, but that's the feeling I got when I read them. Also, it's far too clear that Anakin is Vader at the end. But there are some good ideas in there, as well.

I still really hate the OT of preserving the OT secrets in the prequels. I thought the whole point of the prequels were to show everything the characters talked about in the OT. Anakin's fall, the Empire's rise, The destruction of the Jedi, The Clone Wars, Palpatine's rise to power, Luke and Leia's birth and separation ect. I don't like the idea of never seeing Anakin's gradual fall to the dark side. Sorry guys, I'm just not seeing it. The prequels failing was all in writing, acting, direction in characterization, not in story or concepts.

In that case why not call them Episodes VII through to IX and tell that story as a flashback and tell an even earlier story for I to III.

That way you can tell your story of the origin of Anakin as Luke discovering his roots after Endor and not worry about surprises and people watching in chronological order remain spoiler free.

Then you get your trilogy of trilogies.

To be very daring you could make Episodes I to III after Endor and set up the reason why Luke needs to investigate his past.

So the three trilogies run in reverse.