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darklordoftech said:
Bingowings said:
Part of the problem with AOTC is that it has two desert planets (one orange and one red) in the same movie. It would have made for a better narrative if both of those worlds were Tatooine (the droid armies explaining how the Jawas get to sell so many salvaged droids and why the locals don't like drinking with them). in terms of numbers you get two worlds but in terms of the richness of the environments in which the story is told we get short changed.
For this to work, Obi-Wan (and Qui-Gon if he keeps the role that he has in TPM) would have to discover Anakin after being drawn to Tatooine by the war. The army being constructed on the same planet that Anakin was discovered on 9 years earlier is too much of a coincidence.
The story could have easily been adjusted to make it work.
For example Tatooine has been invaded by the Separatists and the Jedi are forbidden to interfere while negotiations to avoid war are taking place but Anakin is having dreams about his mother in peril so he disobeys the Council and attempts to rescue her anyway.
Meanwhile Obi-Wan has tracked Fett's ship to Tatooine he makes the connection between Fett and the Separatists (who have droid factories on many worlds) but gets captured and is used as a political prisoner and placed in the arena with Anakin and Padme for the amusement of the Hutts playing host to the Separatist council.
The Army of the Republic led by Jedi rescue the captives and drive the droid armies off the planet. The Hutts plead they were overpowered but Anakin and the Jedi free their slaves as punishment (Anakin's dream comes true...you know the one George forgot all about).
This reduces the number of locations down but enriches the locations we do see because it explains all the debris the Jawas make money from. It's consistent with the Hutt's penchant for arena sport. It gives Anakin something heroic to do to balance out the bad. It cuts down the ship landing/taking off shots so rampant in the PT. And it explains why the Tatooine locals keep droids at arms length.
As for coincidence it's no less a stretch than having Luke placed on the same planet that his father grew up on just as that same father tracks down his sister searching out his old master who lives nearby.
This is how the saga has worked since 1980 it's a bit late to complain about how implausible it all is. Having Anakin raised on the same planet as Luke makes practically no sense either.
