Rogue Leader said:
SilverKey said:
Then, AOTC's openingcrawl could explain that in the 10 years since TPM, the Separatist movement has grown since TPM, and that both sides are preparing for war. To counter the threat, the Republic has issued the creation of a clone army. The vote Amidala returns to Coruscant for, is the vote about whether or not to deploy the army.
Actually... the eroneous as well... the thing about the creation of the clone army is that the Sith are pulling the strings for BOTH the Seperatist and Republic Forces... You're thinking along the lines of the Seperatist being this independent outside movement when it's the Sith manipulating both armies for the sole destruction of the Jedi.
You see? The only casualty is are Jedi and the TF are pawns in the Sith's ambitions. "The war is over? Sidious promised us peace" or whatever the hell he said... They were IN on the Sith's plan from TPM into ROTS for their own gain all along and then Sidious betrays them by dispatching Anakin to slay the Seperatist Leaders in ROTS...
I wasn't thinking about making the Separatists an independent movement. In my version, they would still be played by Sidious. In the movies as they are, they know they are in bed with the Sith, but they don't know the Sith's greater plan. Sidious just needed an excuse to get more power and to create an army that would do his bidding (including help wipe out the Jedi). That's why he started the war. I'm not saying my idea is waterproof, but it could still work with all those elements in tact.
RoccondilRinon, you make some good points. What I like about TPM is that it is showing us the beginning of the beginning. But in retrospect, too much time is wasted in TPM. You say the saga isn't about Anakin. Maybe it wasn't to begin with, but with the prequels it is. There is a lot of focus on his character, but by making Anakin so young in TPM, we miss a lot of his development. That's because most of it happened off screen between TPM and AOTC. We go from this sweet kid to an angry teen, who has to be just that because there is only one movie left to show his fall to the Dark Side. Lucas himself has admitted that there about 60% of the PT's story is in ROTS, and in my opinion he just wasted the time he had with TPM.