TheBoost said:I get your point here Bingo, but I also feel where Axia is coming from.
Ever get the feeling that a lot of fans would rather the entire movie (all six) just be packed with silent, black cloaked killing machines?
Boba Fett- He does nothing, but be silent and imply violence. The only thing he actually accomplishes is sneaks after the Falcon, and yet he's practically worshipped. We need to edit ROTJ so that he lives, sells the Death Star plans, and hopefully kills more people.
Maul- Dressed in black, rarely spoke, killed people. He's called a 'wasted character' as if the whole PT should have been based on him.
Greivous- Would have been much better if he was black, didn't talk, and killed more people. Forget that the major plot point of Ep. III is that Grievous is always running away. It's even better if he was actually Darth Maul reincarnated. And killed more.
Ewoks- Less Ewokeese, more eating people.
Chewie- Should be shown to actually rip off peoples arms.
C3P0- Needs claws.
Palpatine- In my edit he's not Chancellor. He just walks into the Senate, kills everyone, and only has one line "I'm the Emperor now, bitches."
Heh, heh, I know where you're coming from.
To me, it's not a matter of just adding in a bunch of "black cloaked killing machines" so much as adding at least a BIT of seriousness to those things that... well,... we just can't take that seriously.
(1) Boba Fett became cool due to the Holiday Special cartoon and all of the comic book appearances before and after EMPIRE, which is how he became a cool character (not to mention all of the cool adventures we kiddie fans put the "action figure" through). JEDI completely trashed what was done by fans (thus the things you mention WOULD be cool as it would re-align Boba to what most fans wanted to see out of the character)
(2) Darth Maul had the potential to be cool like Boba, but again was wasted in the same movie that introduced him: so no comic book stories or animated features with a few years from introduction to lame death to build him up.
(3) Making Grevious into Maul would give Maul "more to do" as well as:
(a) make the fight between Grevious/Maul and Obi Wan a little more personal - being that it would mean Obi having to face the guy who killed his master once again (as well as put a new spin when Obi fights Vader on the DS in A NEW HOPE)
(b) give further explanation to Grevious' lightsabre stuff (as in: he has the skill to operate a lightsabre much less has multiple sabres because he has always been a Sith Lord hunting Jedi between TPM and AOTC)
(c) would serve as a nice lead-up to what is going to happen to Vader (ie the Sith never throw anything away, or unlike the Jedi who believe in an afterlife/reincarnation, the Sith are athiests who believe in the here-and-now and use technology to prolong their physical life as long as possible - all of which would further develop the culture of the Jedi and Sith just by altering Grevious' appearance and name).
(4) Ewoks. Could they get any SILLIER? I mean they DO defeat the GALACTIC EMPIRE and all.... is it too much to ask to give them some teeth to at least explain HOW they are able to defeat the Empire?
(5) ehh... I don't know if the opportunity ever arises other than when he's choking Lando (and what can you do? Have Chewie pop his head off or squeeze his neck so hard his eyes pop out?)
(6) 3PO with claws... mmmmm
(7) well that would have made things a hell of a lot more simpler, wouldn't it?
Hmm, in fact, that could be a plot point: Palpatine sets the Senate up as traitors to the Republic by leaking evidence showing them secretly backing the Federation and/or rebellion against the Republic (you know, just like how it's looking like the Democrats/Republicans caused the economic crisis to happen just so we can have the excuse to push the entire country to socialism/fascism?). Through public support, he has them all executed - anything to align the Prequels with Roman (or current) history would be good in my book.