WheresBlackhawk said:
Sigh...it appears everyone's interest has waned.

My interest hasn't! In fact, it was all I was thinkng about on the commute home today (although admitedly my car stereo is broken :)

I think we hit a snag on a thorny issue of hard/soft sci-fi before the project got rollicking with momentum from all the cool ideas we AGREED on. Clones be damned!

I think the Anakin/Beru/Owen family unit, and the idea of making Bail Organa a major heroic character were SPOT ON. Episode One should be a rip-rollicking swashbuckling adventure flick with Obi-Wan as the main hero, and Bail and Anakin as his crew.

If we aim to NOT worry too much about clones, and the exact manner of the fall of the Jedi and Republic until Ep. 2, maybe we can keep brainstorming ideas and plot points for Episode 1.

Let's call the Ep. 1 baddies 'Mandalorians,' just for the sake of a name, (call them Bob for all I care right now) and worry about how they fit into the bigger picture later (like how Lucas did with the Empire and Darth Vader).

The Mandalorians need a leader, and probably a secondary villain. I'll try and come up with some ideas ASAP.

Also, since the Emperor is out their somewhere, whether Palpy himself is in Ep. 1 or not, it's not unfeasible to have a dark Jedi involved somehow, because evil Jedi are awesome and lets us have lightsabre fights. He doesn't need to be identified as 'Sith,' even if we chose to incorporate the Sith organization in later episodes or not. Some mysterious black garbed, red-sabred badass involved in the plot (even tangentally, perhaps even at odds with the Mandalorians) could be cool.