Nice ideas, TheoOdo... 1 quick question while I digest the other things you wrote: Why Tatooine? I always thought it was a big mistake to put any of the Prequels there... it's already a little hard to swallow that they would "hide" Luke under his father's actual surname... if they also hid him from his father on his father's home planet...

And one more: In your opinion... couldn't Yoda train Obi-Wan and not train Anakin without actually being in the movies? I always presumed we wouldn't actually see Yoda train Obi-Wan in the movies- this would have happened prior to the movies starting... This way, you can preserve the ESB Yoda is a "green alien midget" surprise.