InfoDroid said:Bingowings said:I think Sidious is more cunning than that.
He started the Naboo crisis as a ploy to get Anakin (who is all sweetness now) into the Jedi fold and to weaken the Chancellor so he can replace him.
He is just using poor Maul as a Sith calling card.
Bumping off Qui-Gon defending a corrupt Republic turns Dooku, splitting and weakening the Republic and Anakin gets rid of Dooku and strikes the final blow against an already weakened Jedi Order and dying Republic.
He doesn't want Anakin yet, he wants the Jedi to train him so that he can learn to hate them.
As it stands in the movies in their current form, that's true, Bingowings. But how much more of a dynamic could you add by making Anakin the McGuffin of the story?
In ANH it was the Death Star plans. In ESB it was Luke. In the prequels, we don't really have one, unless you count "Syfo-Dyas" which never really went anywhere.
These movies need an Ark of the Covenant... Something for them to chase.
The object to chase down is the the Trade Federation Invasion (that's the Death Star of Episode One) everything else is dancing in the background, just as who the Emperor and Vader and Luke's father is and how could the Rebels ultimately win danced in the background of ANH.
Episode Two should be a character building exercise with the plot becoming more complex and the dancing moving further to the front (and that too needs major restructuring to come close to fulfilling that goal).
Episode Three is closer to what it should be (the apparent triumph of evil) but it too needs a lot of work on it.
It makes sense that Anakin should be the ultimate focus of all six films (just as Luke is the main focus of OT in isolation) but for Episode One to work it needs to get our heroes from point A to Point C via Point B.
At the moment it's point C to point B to Point A and back to Point C.
The first episode needs a more simple structure to draw people into the more complex weave to follow.
Little details like having The Chosen One Prophecy and Dooku touched upon add the same flavour as having Jabba and the Emperor hinted at in ANH, something that leads into the next episodes without destracting from the coherence of Episode One as a seperate unit but they shouldn't be at the centre when there already is target that is barely being hit.