Brimley said:

Yes, the prequels are a strange case. Clearly someone must have mentioned to George that he was ruining two key reveals in ESB while scripting them. Obviously his objective was to deliver "money shots" (ie- Yoda kicking butt, Anakin strapping on the big black mask). Done, case closed.

And I understand DominicCobb and Jaitea's points about how the PT exists to be played AFTER viewing the OT. When I'm blessed to have children one day, I assume I'll show them the OT before the PT.

However, that's a moot point in this discussion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the basic conceit of this thread/project to alter the PT so that it better fits in with the cultural landmark that is the OT? Preserving the sanctity of the original narrative above all?

My reason for wanting the PT to come afterwards is, no matter what you do, if you put the PT first, you're ruining the sanctity of the original narrative. If you watch 4 then 5, you get all the surprises. But if you watch 1-2-3-4-5, then, even if you have preserved the twist that Anakin is Vader, the twist is still ruined. Because then the twist is just "Anakin is still alive and he's this guy who's been in the past two movies" as opposed to (if you don't watch the PT first) "Vader is Luke's father which means that Luke's father turned to the dark side and Obi Wan was lying and his father isn't really dead and OH MY GOD!"

You get what I mean?

Anyways the reason I make this argument is not because I don't believe there should ever be a version of the PT that preserves the secret. On the contrary I think it would be interesting to watch. But it could never be my definitive. And I really want Revisited to be my definitive. So I guess what I'm hoping for is that Ady will change his mind, or at least that we'll get two different versions of Episode III.