Peregrinus said:Bingowings said:short of reshooting the films how could your ideas be converted into dialogue, footage and slipped into the material that already exists?
Stealing and re-purposing footage from all three movies in the PT and tweaking them as needed to fit (de-greying Obi-Wan, or adding a beard, losing a Padawan braid, etc.)... CGing some meat puppets with synthetic nervous systems to fill in action scenes and whatnot. I was rattled by the fact that, in ROTS, I empathised more with the Clonetroopers than the flesh-and-blood actors. I also know plenty of people in the Rebel Legion and 501st who would be delighted to shoot new footage to insert, as well. Degree of technical hassle would need to be addressed for each scene in turn.
With most of the changes suggested here there are possible technical solutions to putting those dreams onto the screen.
That was my thinking. Dream big, and then see whether it can be done, how easily, etc.
--Jonah
Keep dreaming big!
I thought it was one of the more impressive aspects of the PT that I too managed have an empathy with the Clone troops (I've described them elsewhere as brainwashed slaves) you can see how they both bonded with their Jedi generals and turned on them both down to a pre-programmed loyalty to the state that created them.
I know that the EU would have us believe that the Clone Troopers were eventually phased out and replaced by career non-clones and conscripts. I don't buy that myself. If the Emperor has a pre-existing and proven weapon (in the form of totally loyal and mass produced armies) why would he surrender that for troops who may change sides against him?
I'm actually more surprised that he didn't start to replace the population of the Empire with equally brainwashed drones.
There could be entire planetery populations of civilians and military bred and programmed like robots to serve the Empire (not to mention droids themselves becoming less and less like droids and developing individual awareness and loyalty).
The mess left behind by the two trilogies would make a worthy sequel trilogy in it's own right.