CP3S said:
Mithrandir said:
I wander if this sort of reveal will have any input in ady's version of PT...
Reveal? There was nothing revealed. Fans have known all of that stuff for as long as I can remember, and those things are part of what made the PT so very disappointing to us. It seemed like a really cool story, and we waiting so many years to see it, then it was nothing like we expected. Not being like we expected would have been totally fine, maybe even a really good thing, but it was done really poorly, and established continuity from the first films was ignored and forgotten.
The only part of it that was new to me was Lucas saying that Yoda doesn't fight. Between being a wise sage and making statements like "War does not make one great", I think most of us just assumed that he doesn't fight and that he'd just use the force to protect himself if it came down to it. It is nice to hear young George agree on this, though.
Mostly off topic, but an interesting somewhat related mention: There was an old animated chess game called Star Wars Chess, Yoda played the role of the white Rooks. Anytime one of the white Rooks/Yodas captured a piece, he'd use the force against them. For example, white bishop taking black pawn would be a Stormtrooper pointing his gun at Yoda, and Yoda waving his hand and saying, "Backwards is your gun" which caused the Stormtrooper to flip his gun around shoot himself instead of Yoda. To take out the black rooks, which were AT-ST's, Yoda would levitate it into the air and use the force to squeeze it into a ball, if I remember right. Hardly canonical, being a silly chess game for Star Wars fans, but I played it when I was fairly young and I think it went a ways into shaping my perception of how Yoda might go about a fight. I mean, when you have the ability to lift space ships out of swamps with just your mind, why use a stupid laser sword?
I never believed in Lucas when he said it all was planned. Even if there were things we knew previous to the PT, this document shows a rather high level of plot elaboration for that time. Which is surprising for me at least.
Based on this fact, that even while a lot was changed, some other structural elements of the plot have always been there, my concern was wether now ady's prequels will be "the closest possible to the 1981 prequels plot", or if he will keep his creative freedom when he approaches the trilogy.
Ofc, I've no dubt he will be taking some points of that story treatment, but those are the exact points he said he would be taking before this document came out:
yoda doesn't fight
continuity with ot
no midiclorians
However how important will this new information be for those elements that go beyond these basic pilars of his PT:R, which have always been part of his pov.