RoccondilRinon said:
Why this fuss again about tying TPM into AOTC and ROTS? It works well enough with as many connections as it presently has (although I'll concede the connections themselves, like much of the movie, could do with some tweaking). None of us are complaining about Adywan not doing more to tie ANH into ESB and ROTJ, despite ANH being a lot more standalone than TPM.
The thing about the PT is that we know this is Anakin Skywalker's story arc. Like Luke's humble beginnings from farmer to hero of the Rebellion is the OT arc. The PT is similar to Anakin from slave to hero of the Clone Wars (the difference between the two comes down to the final choices they made concerning the Force, Dark and Light (which on a side note should be the ONLY religious focus in all Star Wars movies and everything else should be soley in the domain of the EU. =P). When Anakin's journey really begins in Episode 1 is also when the Clone Wars at some level of it should start as well. Right now Anakin Skywalker and the possibility of a galaxy wide destructive conflict IS NOT at the forefront as it should be.
TPM begins with a trivial dispute over taxes along with a blockade that stops trade to a planet that apparently can't survive without space trade for like 2 days... A very lush natural and rich planet with a power reactor room the size of the Death Star's main reactor can not survive without space trade? That makes no sense and most of the movie makes NO sense and probably breaks it's own continuity at several levels if we even understood what the story was about...
Therefore, I agree that more than half a movie needs a major over haul if not taken out entirely... Why not make that half taken out the Gungans AND replace it with a major plot driver for the other two movies? No one likes the Gungans other than kids younger than 3 and everyone else wishes they would just die. (Have Jar Jar in Ep.2 though, he has like no lines and officially starts the Clone Wars which wipes out almost all the Jedi, so we're suppose to hate him... lol).
Overall, as Anakin's journey begins, so should the escalation of a galaxy wide war that ends with the destruction of the Jedi Order. Anakin starts his life as a Jedi by the end of TPM... it end in ROTS... The Clones Wars should start by the end of TPM (with the acquiring of human Cloning Tech) and also end in ROTS... Kinda makes sense right? Or am I losing it? =P
I really like Ady's elegant nods to the PT in ANH Revisited. The holo display map in the Rebel War room. The DS graphic from AOTC in the Rebel breifing, and the "Battle of the Heroes" music when Vader and Obi duel. The things is that the movies ARE suppose tie in with each other, not only with tech but with the conflicts and characters and just over all story arcs...