Yeah, I saw Redblade and I was like:

Redblade?

Oh. Ohhh.

A bit heavy handed there.

I don't think this origin meshes very well with the backstory I imagined after first viewing the OT, but it does work as an extension of the EU. There were no Jedi Holocrons in the OT, no Mandalorians (Boba Fett was originally intended as an Imperial Supertrooper), and little variation between types of Jedi. So to me it doesn't feel like something that could have been imagined before the creation of the OT. That said, it's miles better than the beginning of TPM, and starts when it should start: in the middle of a war.