ImperialFighter said:
To be honest, I have the same problem with this, and was happy to wait until adywan's own future 'official' REVISITED threads, purely so that any good ideas didn't get scattered and lost over *too many* threads
I definitely understand your concerns, and this may not be for everybody. I'm simply trying to offer an outlet for some pent up revisited hype in the final stages of ESB:R where group discussion/input is generally finished. I also have to say that I have really wanted to discuss PT:R for a long time... and having started keeping tabs on these edits at 18, it's seems strange to not discuss the ones I'm really interested in until I'm almost 30...
If Ady requests it, I'm perfectly happy asking a mod to obliterate this whole thread.
Serling1979 said:
I always liked the idea of a second apprentice. It would keep the whole who killed whom story a lot more ambiguous and would make a great reveal in ESB.
The good thing is that the PT offers a lot of potential for these changes. It might sound crazy but we see Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan because we saw the movies.
Ewan and Alec resemble each other but what if Qui-Gon never existed. What if Liam Neeson played Obi-Wan and Ewan and Hayden would play Ani and Darth, respectively. There aren't enough scenes with Liam Neeson in the Episode 1 and it would take a lot of redubs of scenes with Ewan and Hayden to make them totally new characters.
It would be a lot of work but the interaction between the two actors is already there. You would just need to change the tone of the scenes and what the scenes are about. The visual clumsiness of the PT (Obi-Wan=light colored clothes=good guy and Ani=dark colored clothes=bad guy) could be turned into something really symbolic.
What do you think?
I don't really think that Vader as the other apprentice works. It's too clear cut. I think the group of apprentices works best - perhaps show Obi-Wan training a group of jedi. Maybe he could be watching lightsaber training from the top of an arena while talking to Anakin?
Another idea might be to establish "vader" as a term referring to someone who has left the jedi order. I know it sounds strange, but it might play out nicely. The title Darth Vader would then literally translate to "a sith lord who abandoned the jedi".