Harmy said:
No offence, but I think this is all bullsh*t, I don't like the prequels and I hate the idea of adjusting the OT to match with them. If the prequels were never made or were made with more thought of matching the originals (which is the way it should have been not vice versa) we could think that Vader became evil by choice, out of lust for power, not because he was lame. And we could think that he never knew that this woman he once raped had a son (or, as we sadly later learn, twins). But then, when he chases Luke in the Death Star trench and he feels that "the force is strong with this one," which must have been pretty rare in the dejedied galaxy, and later hears that this boy's name is Skywalker he can surely add two and two together. But I think the theory that he'd known all along and even knew where Luke and Ben were is totally off the track and can only be thought of because of the inconsistencies the f*cking prequels created...
I understand the board I'm on and everything so I won't argue the merits of the prequels (which I dig... a lot) but this line always bugged me. Any truly creative endeavor a person undertakes will likely grow, expand and change during the process. Zombie84 has made, in my opinion, an irrefutable case that Lucas never had the saga planned out anywhere near as much as he claims. So when he began developing the prequels, his entire conceptualization of Star Wars changed.
Can any of you honestly say you've written something, made a video or done something that requires even a modicum of creative thought that didn't grow and change and head in directions you didn't necessarily have planned out in advance? At least a little bit? Any creative writing I've ever done usually became something more/better/different/other than I thought it would; ditto when I've come back to old ideas.
And again, I'm not arguing the merits of the prequels on this board. I'm also not arguing the OT should've been changed to match them (because the originals are far superior). This is about the creative process and how it works, not the end results of what Lucas has made.