CatBus said:

AntcuFaalb said:

CatBus said:

But instead we get bitter half-robot Sebulba collecting Jedi scrap off eBay. Great.

Among other things I'm an archivist, collector, and nostalgia whore, so I'm pretty excited to see a representation of someone like myself in the ST. I think this is an excellent tip-of-the-hat to the "original" Star Wars fans and it's what I'm looking forward to the most.

Well sure, but the PT tie-in is unnecessary to accomplish this. Why not have Max Von Sydow play some entirely new character, instead of an elderly, decrepit Boss Nass? The fact that there's so much distance between the ST and the PT is an "all clear" signal to the writers that the trainwrecks of the past can be ignored altogether. Instead there's more of this "unified saga though unnecessary cameos" BS we get from the Special Editions. It would be unified enough just by not too explicitly contradicting anything from the previous films.

Oh, man. I didn't realize you were referring to the PT-ness of the character. I need to work on my reading comprehension.

I agree. The PT need not be addressed at all.