Octorox said:No offense but I completely despise TheoOdo's idea. The point of the prequels is to show the glory day's of the old republic and how they came to an end. There needs to be a huge but gradual shift in attitude and style from TPM to ANH. To have the Jedi and the Republic already laughable Day 1 does not show that.
For me, the most important thing any fanedit can do is make the films of the PT mesh better with the OT. In ANH, it's clear the Old Republic is long gone. There's a sense that the Empire has been around for a long time, and a sense of loss for the ancient glory days. In order for those glory days to be ancient and worth that nostalgia, they would have to honestly have been gone for some time, in my view. The Republic is still the republic, but as Palpatine says in the original cut of TPM, "it's not what it once was".
I think something that is very clear in the OT is that sense of loss. When we're with Yoda on Dagobah in ESB, there is a sense that he is a purveyor of a lost ancient wisdom but to show that time straight up...it cannot compare to the immense spectacle that builds up in our imaginations. When we watch Yoda training younglings in AOTC, it suddenly seems trivial and mundane.
Certain things should be cloaked, I feel, if they are to retain their power. Is the Republic as we see in the PT worthy of that feeling of loss? I don't think so, so I think it should instead be stated that, once again, the glory days are out of sight and fit back into the comfortable mists of our imagination where they can take on grand, exaggerated forms. The important thing is the idea of a good, just society. That is not the society we see in the PT.
To say it in short, the Old Republic should be an idealised society, in my view. Such a society cannot be successfully presented literally.
Secondly, my meaning with the new dialogue was to show not that the Jedi are a joke, but that they are mythical and mysterious with some, especially the enemies of the Republic, even doubting their existence. This, I think, lends them more mystery and explains better why a mere 18 years after their fall people would be so skeptical about their existence and the existence of the Force as we see, for example, Han Solo and the chocked imperial both are.
That's my explanation of what I meant, and I think I'm rambling a bit now, but, hey, to each his own.
Edit: Another idea. Can we have at least one mention of Anakin Skywalker being a famous starpilot in an opening crawl? For all Obi-Wan's talk in ANH, we certainly don't see a lot of starpiloting on Anakin's part...so if we can't see, at least let us know it.