Bingowings said:I remember back around the time of TPM some magazine carried a picture of a plain steel looking Fett helmet and armour which (like Jengo) had no dings or dents in it. No paint just shiny metal.
Did I dream it or does anyone else remember what I'm talking about?
On a different note it kind of came up over in the ESB/ROTJ wishlist thread so I'm going to post it here.
A lot of people don't like the dreams/flashforwards/visions in ROTS and feel they are out of place in the Star Wars universe.
At the risk of being branded a heretic, the cave sequence in ESB is a form of dream/vision but it's done in a completely different way.
If we saw Anakin's dreams of his mother and Padme in a more stylised and dreamlike manner with symbolism and ambiguity (rather than just a clipshow with a wobbly distortion) like Luke's vision of his head inside Vader's mask would that be more acceptable?
I seem to remember that in the novelisation of AOTC Anakin dreamt of his mother turning into glass and shattering (or was that somewhere else?).
These could become mini-projects in their own right.
How could they be done?
It's our chance to put a bit of David Lynch into Star Wars all those years after he turned down ROTJ.
A way you could work this in is in the same way it was done in EMPIRE: it is a "Kobiyashi Maru" in the Jedi temple that Yoda sends aspiring students through. You could FX in a tree in the middle of the Jedi temple surrounded by a mist or swampy area (not just a simple tree mind you). Anakin walks in and has his vision - maybe he fights a black cloaked figure or multiple cloaked figures. When he cuts them down, he sees that they all have faces of those he cares about: Obi, Padme, his mom, etc.
And I vote for the Jedi Temple blowing up and being blamed on the Seperatists/Federation ala Ben_Danger's and Bingowing's suggestions.
in fact, could we change "seperatists" with "rebels" or "federation"? For some reason the word Seperatist just doesn't have the same oomph as the other words when describing either an outside or internal threat to the Republic/Empire. In fact I think it would be fitting to call them the Rebel Alliance, to show that they started under Count Dooku as well as show that they had money behind them from the get-go. That could actually play Dooku to be a tragic anti-hero of a sorts, if the past idea of him being a rogue Jedi were to be used.