Sluggo said:Bingowings said:ben_danger said:despite all the good arguments made for having fett, i do feel it would be a distracting subplot, and kind of unnecessary, and could be viewed as a fan service (like fett in AOTC). i would only include him if you find that the restructured ROTJ creates a gap that he could fill. i wouldnt go making a gap to put him in.
As you say it's an idea and like some ideas on here it will appeal to some people and not to others.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating and nobody has cooked it yet.
Personally I'd like to see the idea made and if it becomes in my power to do so and nobody else does it I'll do it myself so people can put it in or leave it out or do it differently at their own discretion.
Fett in AOTC is a fan service when he isn't being a bounty hunter (I'm fine with him being hired to kill Padme, the clone template buisness was the fan service as was little boy Boba).
He was definitely a fan service in ANH.
I'd totally watch an alternate version of Jedi (at least once) where Fett sells the plans to the rebels. That's the fun of these ideas. I like some ideas, don't others and other folks like what they like.
It really is the double edge sword of the Special Editions. Once Lucas changed the films, it totally blew any idea about what is canon and what is not away, if you take my meaning. Once he opened the films for changes, all hell hath broken loose. Totally agravating on one hand and kind of fun on the other.
On the one hand it would have be great to see six (or nine) really good Star Wars films right off the bat but on the other hand Lucas has encouraged (by accident) a whole unstoppable wave of talent and creative thinking made possible in no small way by the technology his companies helped develop, which are now available for a large number of people to buy.