I appreciate that, but I don't think this idea is worth exploring because all it will do is further soften an already weak story in the prequels. The prequels have two story arcs, Anakin's fall and Palpatine's rise. To remove one leaves very little, and let's face it, they weren't good enough in the first place. But I think attempting this change is actually going to make them even weaker.

Besides, I still don't get why people have to watch them in Episode order. The assumption that they are supposed to be seen that way isn't well-founded as they weren't written that way. The prequels were written in the knowledge that virtually everyone knew Vader was Luke's father. Any attempt to rewrite them after the fact is just going to fall to pieces. It won't work.

Don't get me wrong, I totally applaud radical revisions if it is going to improve something; I just think this idea will achieve the opposite.