CWBorne said:

I think for my draft (at least at the moment) the Anakin's arc benefits seeing exactly what he gave up to go with Kenobi, and even how a place like Tatooine was had potential before the war destroyed much of hope and possible prosperity. I want to be able to return to there in the third prequel and have it illustrated exactly how damaging this conflict has been, even to planets not directly involved in the war.

Imagine if we could completely reboot Star Wars and create the perfect 9 films as they should have been (so leave episodes 4 and 5 pretty much identical, and the parts from RotJ that would have allowed it to be more open ended to lead into the next 3 films, and obviously completely redo the prequal trilogy). If that could be done then including things like flashbacks (which currently seem very unstarwarsy, for lack of a better word) would be a brilliant way of doing this. And I think what you have said would definitely be better than George's way of doing things as you are suggesting we see change on Tatooine between one visit and the next. Sorry if you have said this already but would you be showing Tatooine near the start of episode 1 and then not again until episode 4?