imperialscum said:
Bingowings said:
This may be unpopular as we have just had three crap films where droids fight troopers but A) The idea wasn't bad it was the execution
Actually the idea itself is bad. Maybe not for a hardcore sci-fi film but it certainly is for Star Wars. When you see a rebel or a stromtrooper you know this guy fights for something, has some backstory, has a family somewhere, came from somewhere and his death will affect people. As for clones and droids, they completely unappealing and boring. And a war is boring if it is fought between clones and dorids. It has little affect on galactic population. It is like kids playing battles with toys soldiers, while adults don't care about it.
Droids have always been a metaphor for slaves in Star Wars.
Artoo and Threepio are fully rounded characters (arguably more so than Anakin and Obi-Wan) and yet they can be sold and ordered around and generally abused even by the heroes.
The Clones are flesh and blood slaves brainwashed to serve the (at the time) democratically elected government.
A slave has an inbuilt cause more obvious than a rebel or a tyrant.
A slave wants not to be a slave (unless they are kinky).
The war in Star Wars isn't the real star.It's an essential backdrop so the stars (the main characters old and new) facing a threat in the form of an alliance of armoured clones and robots isn't that different from having a threat of Imperial troops in costumes using giant walking vehicles.
The threat coming from a group with a genuine grievance (sorry about the pun) gives the conflict some interest.
Those calling for a return to the beat up universe would have dented robots and clones using bashed up old Imperial equipment fighting the former rebels in their state of the art polished new ships.
Leia as villain and a her daughter say... as the heroine would be that different from have Vader and Luke in the same role.
I don't see your problem.