You make an excellent point on the timeline. It's my curse of writing before thinking everything through. I just can't accept the PT starting with a 9yo Anakin, and then how old he looks at the end of Jedi being in his mid to late 40's supposedly. I'm kind of nitpicky over stuff like that.

The whole Jar Jar thing; yeah, I get hit a lot over that :P At least he wouldn't be in my story so that should earn me points!

What it all boils down to is I'd focus on the characters and the adventures they have, and then wrap things up with Anakin becoming Vader in EpIII but without the whole suiting up montage. I wouldn't focus on connecting all of the dots as we already know what happens in the OT. George went overboard in trying to explain everything and it backfired.

I would have focused on Anakin's and Obi-Wans relationship and adventures, because when it all went south in EpIII it would have been more dramatic. All of the political stuff would have been dialed down, and the Clone Wars brought forward because we really didn't get to see it; only bits and pieces.

Mind you, these are only ideas I have floating around in my head. I don't have the talent to actually put it down on paper properly even though I've been a fan since '77. What thinks you?