CWBorne said:

You could probably in a sense present three variations of Tatooine: the one with burgeoning development and some authority in the first prequel, one with abandoned buildings and clear decay in Obi-Wan/Owen scene via the last prequel, and finally the craphole we see in A New Hope.

That's exactly what I'd love to see in our theoretical prequels, but that doesn't help me figure out how to work Owen into it (if at all), OR Anakin. Or Obi-Wan finding him there...now I'm all confused!