GlastoEls said:
Great discussion, but they're never, ever, ever going to reboot or ret-con the prequels.
Prequels feed into Clone Wars, which feeds into Rebels, which may feed into Rogue One, which feeds.... etc.
Yeah, that's the biggest problem with rebooting the PT.
If you choose to make a PT that's radically different from the original, it's not going to mesh with TCW or Rebels. That means you'd have to initiate another purge of the franchise, decanonizing those two shows and everything tied to them, which would send the franchise into a tailspin.
If you choose to reboot the PT, but make it such a way that it fits with TCW and Rebels, you're still going to have to keep all the shitty prequelisms like "youngling", "padawan", midi-chlorians, desert hermit Jedi robes, "Darth" as a title for Sith, lightsaber-wielding Yoda, lightsaber-wielding Palpatine, the RGB lightsaber colour scheme, etc. In effect, you'd end up with a PT that may be somewhat better than the original PT, but it'd still tell the same basic story with the same basic interpretation of characters. What would be the point?
As much as I'd like to see the PT we have discarded and replaced, that ship has sailed. At this point, the most we can hope for is for Lucasfilm to declare the PT apocryphal -- a heavily inaccurate depiction of true events, if you will -- and hope writers choose to build on that idea in future stories told outside of the main saga.