Oh I'm sorry. I thought you were saying on in your recnt posts you could change Tatooine in Episode One to be Geonosis.

I agree with that. However, I also brought up the idea of keeping Tatooine in the later episodes but having it be a world formerly ruled or governed by the bad guys of the clone wars that is then abandoned by the time of episode two.

That way you could then place shmi on tatooine as in the existing film. The idea would be the lars family moved from geonosis to tatooine between the events of episodes one and two to settle tatooine.

Maybe Cliegg Lars lost his leg in the clone wars and he's an old veteran who was given land on tatooine as part of his pension? :D

You also suggested maybe geonosians like podracing too. Well, there are shots in the podrace that look alot more geonosian than tatooine-ish so I agree with that.

Then there are the parts in AOTC where anakin is on his speeder looking for his mother passing through tatooine landscape that looks geonosian.

Oh my head.

But I'm all for turning tatooine in TPM into geonosis. But geonosis needs to bve the red rock world and tatooine needs to be distinct from it: sand. Lots and lots of sand and flat plains.