JasonN said:
Bingowings said:
There is so much so wrong with episodes I, II, III and IV and that the only thing you can hold between them is what does work.
Episode IV? Isn't that supposed to be the original Star Wars?
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Whoops! Thanks for flagging up the gaff! I'm happy sit corrected.
To those who found it depressing, think of it this way if it was easy to fix it wouldn't be anywhere near as open to our imaginations to play in.
There were some interesting edit options that I've never seen before in the review itself.
Like having them cut the door open before the droids turn up, having the ship blow up after they have escaped (making them have to rethink their plans).
My linear edit approach would explain why they took a kid to a warzone.
Making the Queen the central character could give the story an arc.
She wants to liberate her planet but is frustrated at every turn by the inaction of the bureaucratic nightmare the Republic has become and takes matters into her own hands.
Having the dispute about a rival claim to the planet rather than a Trade dispute gives the conflict a more upfront reason for happening and puts the native Gungans into a stronger position (the Naboo and the Neimiodians are duking it out over a planet that doesn't legitimately belong to either of them).
Once you start thinking of ways to fix the first part it automatically fixes a lot of what's wrong with the prequel trilogy as a whole.
So think positive, see it as a worthy challenge and start the new year firing up that imagination.
A bad trilogy could be the greatest gift Lucas ever gave us because it really pushes us to the limit to try and fix it.
I also like the idea of Qui-Gon being the true phantom menace.
A point could be made about the ends never justifying the means and that bending the rules has sometimes dire outcomes.