RicOlie_2 said:

It could have been done, it just wasn't....

I think this is the main point to be made here; I don't know how exactly it could have followed the PT storyline we have now (your synopsis was pretty great, Ric), but I feel like it could have been done given the right talent and the right mindset.

I do feel like it would be weird without the droids, though...

Fang Zei said:

Perhaps I should clarify my original questions.

I'm not so much talking about syncing up in terms of story, but merely in terms of looking/sounding of a whole with the OOT.

But this kind of leads me to my other question: does it really matter? Does the fact that some of the environments in the PT are cg whereas even the most fantastical locales of the OOT (like Bespin) are still "analog" actually matter?

In a world without the SE, would it matter that the PT is as cg-filled as it is?

I feel like I addressed the first part of this in my first post fairly well; as for the second part, I'm almost not sure if it does matter.

I think the vast majority of what's wrong with the PT is story-related, and I feel like we could have ignored its over-reliance on CGI if it had a story that was on-par with the OT. I think the majority of us would have just shrugged it off as the progression of technology (which made heavy CGI use in the PT almost inevitable, SE or no).

If the Special Editions failed, I feel like the PT probably would never have happened.