TMBTM said:

I kind of like the idea of "cloning" being the "macguffin" of the NPT.

The technology everyone (bad guys and good guys) wants to control but that don't really matter from the audience point of view, since what would be interesting should be the relationship between the characters.

Hell, the "moral" of the NPT could even be that the Force (used for good or evil, since the bad guys wins in the end anyway) is stronger than technology.

I like it as well, I think cloning or the clones should have been a really important concept in the PT. I think what surprised me the most about the PT is just how unimaginative they were. I couldn't believe they came from the same mind that created Star Wars. There was nothing novel or interesting about them other than the double-bladed lightsaber, but then I read somewhere that that wasn't even Lucas's idea, it was from EU. Even the design and concepts of the aliens and the spaceships were pretty terrible, they sorely missed Ralph McQuarrie I guess. I'll never forget my first impressions of the opening minutes of TPM. Uhh, wtf is that annoying Jar Jar thing? Uhh, Star Wars has SR-71 Blackbirds? Jesus, George, you could have paid me to do this stuff.