Yeah, you're right ... I guess it just seemed to me that everyone else is thinking in such a radically different direction than us, and I think your outlines are so good, Blackhawk, that the idea of compromising to make it "less sci-fi" seemed utterly ridiculous when (I feel) that Star Wars is a sci-fi fantasy to begin with.

That and I'm rereading the Zahn books (I haven't since the SE came out) and realizing that TheBoost is right about them, so I was already disillusioned about that, then to come here and see everyone arguing over whether it's "too sci-fi" or whatever just seemed ridiculous to me.

I think any prequel story we'll come up with is going to be more sci-fi-ish than the original trilogy anyway by necessity - we HAVE to deal with politics, we HAVE to deal with cloning, etc. I just want these things to be interesting and make us think, regardless of how "sci-fi" it is.