yeah buddy as i was saying I've often thought along those lines until the problem with Sifo Dyas only dying 10 years before aOTC (so just after or before TPM) the Jedi Council is pretty much the same (a few differences but nothing life threatening) in TPM as it is in AOTC so I kinda ruled that out.

the one plot revelation I had been toying with is a much larger grander aspect of who Palpatine really is but rather..........

Could he be Anakins father? Could that be the surprise revelation? Could the whole creation of Anakin been part of Sidious's master plan to take over the Galaxy & turn the republic into the evil Galactic Empire with him at the head & Vader by his side?