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Originally posted by: Rebel11_38
Do you think that Episodes I & II could be condensed into one movie? I think most of the story elements could be condensed to make one solid film, but could the two movies be edited together believably?

What do you all think? I would like to hear about both it from both viewpoints. Looking at it practically, (meaning could the editing actually be done to make it happen), and hypothetically (just the story itself).

Hit me.


I think what we saw in Episode I should never have been written on the printed screenplay.

Part of the personality split would probably require Anakin to have blackouts that give him a few minutes to let the Vader personality kick in so that pre-mechanical Vader can go do evil things, followed by another blackout that gives the Anakin personality a few minutes to reapply itself before the whole giving-in-to-the-dark-side thing was complete.

I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Part of the personality split would probably require Anakin to have blackouts that give him a few minutes to let the Vader personality kick in so that pre-mechanical Vader can go do evil things,


I see that scene between Anakin and the Sandpeople to be an example of the blackouts. Not that I am a big fan of the Lucas Prequels, but that was one scene I liked.
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I think that Darth Simon's ideas earlier in the thread are excellent aand I really really (unrealistically) hope that Georgy is reading this and he goes and shoots some pickup scenes and reedits ROTS to at least be a bit like Simon's version. One thing I just want to add though - Obi Wan should see Anakin's lightsaber along with his other possesions, and maybe pick it up and look at it sadly, but then put it back down, then Vader appears helmetless (we don't see his face) tells Obi Wan that his friend is 'No More', then the camera swings round as the helmet goes on and we see Vader from the front in all his glory. He switches on his new Red lightsabre and they fight. Obi Wan loses his lightsaber (it get's knocked out of his hand, or maybe Vader takes it from him using the force and throws it down a hole or something) so Obi Wan uses Anakin's saber to fend off vader (oh the Irony - Anakin's blue saber Vs Vader's red one...) then escapes as the ship is attacked. Vader walks away.

War does not make one great.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Obiwan
Yoda
Anakin
Palpatine
Chewie...

Hm.. that only seems to be five. That's hardly 'so many'...


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That addition to the scene is great Yoda Is Your Father. It is little details like that could have made the official prequels so much better.
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YodaIYF, thanks, glad to know you enjoy my ideas...i really like addition to the scene as well...the irony and symbolism that could be worked into that would be amazing. I mean it would basically be an outward representation of the struggle that Anakin/Vader has inwardly (this is really only presented later on in ROTJ, so if you watch OT then PT it would be one of those 'oh, man, i never realized that' type scenes.

though this throws the whole 'Curse of the blue saber' thing out of wack. But at the same time it shows that Vader has not yet been able to destroy all of Anakin (or can if you analyze it). Thinking about it though, i wonder if this later detracts from the scene in Empire where Luke fights Vader using his father's lightsaber. What do you guys think? while it would make a cool scene how would it work when it gets analyzed (as you know it would be if the movie were made this way)? Is there a way to do something similar (have Anakin (through his saber or something else) 'save' Obi-Wan from Vader) without taking away from the Father-Son dual that uses Anakin's/Vader's saber? Id be interested to see what people think on this, and if they think that it actually would detract from this scene.

-Darth Simon
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I think that Darth Simon's ideas earlier in the thread are excellent aand I really really (unrealistically) hope that Georgy is reading this and he goes and shoots some pickup scenes and reedits ROTS to at least be a bit like Simon's version. One thing I just want to add though - Obi Wan should see Anakin's lightsaber along with his other possesions, and maybe pick it up and look at it sadly, but then put it back down, then Vader appears helmetless (we don't see his face) tells Obi Wan that his friend is 'No More', then the camera swings round as the helmet goes on and we see Vader from the front in all his glory. He switches on his new Red lightsabre and they fight. Obi Wan loses his lightsaber (it get's knocked out of his hand, or maybe Vader takes it from him using the force and throws it down a hole or something) so Obi Wan uses Anakin's saber to fend off vader (oh the Irony - Anakin's blue saber Vs Vader's red one...) then escapes as the ship is attacked. Vader walks away.


That's good stuff Yoda-Dad.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

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There went the validity of Chaltab's snide remark.


Snide? Who uses that word anymore?

Anyway, Mothma, Leia, and Luke are just cameos. Obviously the Skywalker twins won't have any dialogue, and Mothman probably won't have a whole lot.

I don't understand why having some OT characters hurts the PT anyway. I think it boosts continuity, which seemed pretty weak after TMP.

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There went the validity of Chaltab's snide remark.


Snide? Who uses that word anymore?

Anyway, Mothma, Leia, and Luke are just cameos. Obviously the Skywalker twins won't have any dialogue, and Mothman probably won't have a whole lot.

I don't understand why having some OT characters hurts the PT anyway. I think it boosts continuity, which seemed pretty weak after TMP.


Actually, thats exactly why I personally see it as a problem. Thats all these cameos are there for, to boose the very weak continuity...the only characters that need to be in the prequal are Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Palpatine.

sure your gonna have small overlaps like Bail Organa (but its those small ones that just occur that actually boost the continuity, as apposed to ones like Fett Chewbacca tha are more like, "See, no really, it is Star Wars. It has every character you could possibly think of from the OT that we could jam into it"

Ok, i can kinda see the droids, but their introduction seemed very very forced. Plus it actually added a lot of continuity errors. Sure the droids could get a memory wipe. but Obi-Wan? also how did the droids end up with Captain Antillies on the Tantive IV. wouldnt a logical place for them to end up be with bail Organa. I mean based on statements from the OT by Leia we are led to believe that Padme actually survived for a period of time because Leia remembers her (images mostly). but yes, the way the droids are in could be worked out...though it shouldnt need to be, they should flow.

But cameos that could have been left out (not including the droids)
Fett - lame if you ask me...was better left with his past as a mystery.
Greedo - forgot about that didnt you...probably a self defense mechanisme to retain your sanity
Chewie - ugh, any wookies for that matter...honestly it doesnt fit (i can go into why in a seperate post if people need it explained)
Jabba - again, just another brief appearance to say, see its Star Wars, this character was in Star Wars
Owen and Beru - again more forced "See more characters you know", ideally in my opinion tatooine would have been left out, would have explained (or actually
eliminated the need to explain a lot of continuity errors)

Mon Mothma, Tarkin, and probably Ackbar - again..why? just more forced look, see star wars characters.
Luke and Leia...ok, kinda of needed depending one where episode III actually goes...but could easily be left out, and have it left with Padme pregnent...maybe in a situation where its like...did she get out...it sure seemed like it, but they didnt actually show...i dont know how well that would work, id have to think about it in the context of the story

then we get all the wonderfull, look, these planets are the same too.

Coruscant - this one was needed, but could have been left out of the SE's ending
Tatooine - forced
Alderaan was mentioned, this is actually how i think more of the references should have been made (when talking about Chancellor nominations, "Bail Organa from Alderaan" )

did i leave anything out?

i guess we could go into the forced vehicle inclusions...ok, the resemblence of the ships to the ships in the OT was done fairly well, but i did have a problem with Anakin on a speeder bike on Tatooine, a lot of people here read the EU books, he should have been on a swoop, from Shadows of the Empire i got the impression that was what was used on Tatooine, not speeder bikes, kind of like the Tatooine model of the bikes.

think that covers most of the forced continuities vs ones that flowed easily.

-Darth Simon
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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I think a better continuity would have been Anakin have been from Alderaan rather than Tatooine.

It would have also eliminated the opportunity for his speach about sand in AotC. It would make more sense for Leia to be taken there, then, although much less sense in Luke's case.

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I have to disagree. I think having Anakin from Alderaan would have been just as bad, if not worse, than having him from Tatooine.

Anakin from Tatooine has the problem that someone with the same name as Anakin is now living on Anakin's home planet. How did the empire over look this one?

Anakin from Alderaan, kinda of pointless actually. Padme and Bail Organa are both senators, if they have similar ideals it is very possible that they are friends so he offered to take one of the children after she died, and actually could have offered to take them both back to alderaan with him and help hide them from the empire. Padme dies so Bail adopts Leia as his own, changing her name at the request/advice of Obi-Wan to aid in keeping her hidden from the empire. Could be worked that Bail Organa is actually Leia's grandfather but this gives the same last name problem that Anakin on Tatooine does except now with leia, cause im sure Anakin and Palpatine knew Leia's Maiden name. so maybe Bail is an uncle of padme's name is different it could work...either way this relationship/connection is easy to establish and we can easily put Leia being hidden on Alderaan.

now, since tatooine was never mentioned in this, it would just be some random planet that obi-wan chose. Lars and Beru could be someone Obi-Wan knows, his parents, though from age maybe his brother or cousin. The empire, at least at the time of Obi-Wan's choosing of this planet, had no interest/had not yet 'conquored' it. So when they do they never notice this Skywalker kid living there.

-Darth Simon
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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Obi-Wan couldn't defeat Vader with his old saber. Luke couldn't defeat Vader with his old saber. Only Luke by refusing to fight his father could win. I think that an allusion could be made to the fact that the lightsaber is still not the answer, it is still too much of an offesive weapon. Yoda said that Jedi fights in defense, never offense, and it is at the end of ROTJ that we see that proven true.

On the issue of having too many OT characters in the PT, I agree with you.

I think that Fett's history should have been kept a secret.

I don't feel real strongly about the droids being present either way, but I know that I don't like the way their inclusion was explained (i.e.

C-3P0 being created by Anakin).

Luke and Leia are a given as far as I am concerned.

I would like to see Mon Mothma have some role and I would like to see Tarkin.

I think including Chewie was unnecessary, but I can live with it.

I am still waiting to see Bail Organa.

Absolutely no Greedo!

Jabba was completely unnecessary.

I thought Owen and Beru were a nice touch, even though they weren't given enough lines to be substantial.

Coruscant was nice to see, but I agree that Tantooine was unnecessary. I would still like to Alderaan, although I still think that Naboo should have been Alderaan. I would like to see Dagobah and maybe a mysterious world where Anankin goes in search of the secrets of the force. I really don't want to see the Millenium Falcon, Han, or Lando. I think that it would be too much and bring down the story. Besides, Han is only little older than Luke and Leia, so how come he woudl have a cameo and they would just be born?

I don't think it was necessary to know where Anakin was born. He should have simply been introduced during the Clone Wars.
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I don't think it was necessary to know where Anakin was born. He should have simply been introduced during the Clone Wars.


I think it actually would have worked well to not say where he came from, make him an orphan. Him not knowing who his parents/origin was would have added to his character and been able to help build him as some troubled youth. I think someone mentioned something like this earlier...and i have to agree that it would probably have been a very good way to go with Anakin's character

-Darth Simon
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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Yeah, I always thought the story would have worked better if he were an orphan. If Lucas would have still insisted on his "virgin birth," it would have added a air of mystery to the fact since he didn't really know where he came from.
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Of course that would have eliminated the need for the still cool podraciing seen.

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Of course that would have eliminated the need for the still cool podraciing seen.


good point. but the point of that was to demonstrate how good of a pilot Anakin was right? Im sure something equally cool (if not better) could be worked in to accomplish the same task if you did more with Anakin being a pilot in the clone wars (you know, following how Obi-Wan said they met in Episode IV)

btw, only Rebel11_38 gave input to the age of Obi-Wan in episodes I-IV...still would like to hear what the rest of you think

-Darth Simon
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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I actually never cared for the pod-racing scene. I thought it was silly, especially considering Anakin's age. That was supposed to establish that Anakin was a good pilot? I don't buy it.

I think they could have done something more believable to show that he was a good pilot. Of course, I find it hard to believe any 9 year old, chosen one or not, would be able to a) win a race against several other cut-throat thugs at death-defying speeds, and b) directly cause the destruction of a major battleship in orbit. The fact that he was able to dodge any of the laser bolts coming him was silly. He was supposed to destroy the ship, and his reaction is "oops!"

C'mon....

If Anakin was older, the story would have been so much better.
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Even ingoring the midichlorians, Anakin is really strong in the force, so he can win against cut throats.

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I know he supposed to be very strong in the force, but....

9...

Years...

Old...?

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I think it would have been more effective, if Schmi Skywalker had died in the first movie (perhaps, at the hand of Darth Maul), and Qui-Gonn took the orphaned Anakin under his wing (aside from the parallels to A NEW HOPE), if they had cast Anakin closer to Amidala's age, about 15, it would have allowed his character a troubled darker edge much earlier in the story, I always had a problem with the boy who would eventually become Vader ever uttering the word 'Yippieeee!'

And Anakin's return to Tatooine in AOTC just slowed the story down, if he was so concerned for his enslaved mother's wellbeing, then why did he leave her in the first place, let alone wait ten years to return and free her?
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I agree buddy-x-wing. Supposedly he couldn't go because the Jedi aren't allowed attachments and he was letting his fear control him. Suddenly he goes and finds out that his mother is basically dead? A lot of these elements could have been put in the first movie like buddy-x-wing said.

What else could be done to combine the two films to make one good movie?
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I've pieced together a treatment of How I think the prequels should have been, based on everything we've discussed over the past few pages. Enjoy:



Anakin Skywalker is a republic strafighter pilot in his late teens. He is an orphan with no knowledge of his parents/origin, which would have added to his character and help build him as a troubled youth.

When the clone wars erupted Jedi Knights, being the guardians of peace, helped defend the Republic. During one fateful mission Obi-Wan Kenobi (A Jedi Knight) meets Anakin Skywalker and is taken by his amazing piloting skills. Obi-Wan recognizes the force potential in Anakin and, seeing that he already was drawing on the force during battle (without realising it) he decided to train him. Traditionally Jedis start their training in their early teens, so the fact that Obi-Wan trained Anakin past his teens was one of his downfalls and is what leads Yoda in TESB to say that Luke is too old to begin the training. Anakin is among the few (or only) in the history of the Jedi that started their training older than most.

Despite the War that is in full swing around them, the Jedi allow Obi Wan to take Anakin as his apprentice, believing that he may be 'the one who will bring balance to the force'. Anakin becomes more and more powerful and more and more obsessed with the force. There were brief glimpses of Anakin using excessive violence and taking the force for granted during battle (after Obi-Wan had begun training him), and with the war over it simply got worse.

At this time Anakin also gets a girlfriend. She wouldn't be a senator or anything but she could be linked to politics and Bail Organa in some way which explains why Leia ended up with him on Alderaan. The story doesn't need a strong focus on the mother/Padme. Anakin could have just as easily been dating Padme during the clone wars before he met Obi-Wan and then he got married to her. Perhaps she too could show signs of being strong in the force, but she never develops her ability (like Leia).

Jedi were supposed to be peace keepers, not a militia, but that was what Anakin was becoming. Mentally scarred from war and drunk with his new power, he was not the same man he was. He is also aware that he is becoming even more powerful than his master, and this frustrates him.
Obi-Wan is concerned but is still doesn't realise how dangerously close Anakin is treading into areas he shouldn't be. Anakin begins to look for more sorces of information about the force.

He finds the answers he is looking for with Darth Sidious (who is also Senator Palpatine, but Anakin doesn't know that - Palpatine blocks anakin from sensing this until he wants him to know) and begins to receive dark side training. He is still a Jedi, but in the shadows and the dark places he is doing the bidding of the dark lord, working undercover essentially, and the Jedi don't know what is going on because as Yoda said "the dark side clouds everything."

After Sidious seduces Anakin with the allure of the dark side, he reveals his dual identity and his true plan for the republic. Anakin is addicted to the power Sidious has given him and cannot defy him. The idea of ruling the galaxy alongside Sidious/Palpatine is too tempting. Working basically as an assasin for Sidious/Palpatine he starts taking out Jedi and political figures.

Due to many of the Jedi being killed in battle, and due to his outstanding perforance in the Clone Wars, Anakin is made into a Jedi Knight and Obi-Wan reluctantly takes on a new student at the behest of the Jedi Council (as do most masters/knights) to help rebuild the Jedi. (this means that the surprise of Vader's identity is preserved until Episode 5 - it could be Obi Wan's 2nd apprentice that became Vader for all we know). Obi-Wan does not think that Anakin is 100% ready and continues to try to teach him, but he doesnt want to learn, he thinks he knows it all, the Jedi Council has made him a Jedi Knight after all.

Their friendship breaks down as Anakin becomes more and more bigheaded. His relationship with Padme (we'll keep the name just to make it simple) begins to deteriorate (although by this time she is already pregnant).

Obi Wan and Anakin are paired up on a joint mission to destroy one of the last remaining resistance cells. Obi Wan is leading it, but Anakin doesnt like that, he doesnt want to take orders from Obi-Wan anymore, he is after all a Jedi Knight, and a more powerful one than Obi-Wan at that (at least in his eyes). They end up fighting (they are evenlly matched) and during the fight anakin gets knocked into the pit, Obi-Wan tries to help him and while he is pulling him up Anakin pulls Obi-Wan down and he is now on the edge too. Anakin tries to pull Obi Wan into the lava, seemingly with no thought for his own life - he justs wants to take Obi Wan with him. Eventually, Obi Wan struggles free and anakin falls into the lava. Obi-Wan is mortified...he returns, his mission unfufilled, to give the bad news to Padme and the Jedi Council.

Obi Wan somehow gets word that Anakin survived the lava and is being held on a ship by separatists or the Sith or some other bad dudes and (possibly against the will of the council) goes to rescue Anakin. Meanwhile the clone army is preparing its final attack against this very same ship. Kenobi gets aboard this main ship and is searching for anakin. His force sense leads him to a Med centre and he finds Anakin's burnt cloths and lightsaber. He looks at it sadly, then hears a vader-like voice (but not quite - partially through the voice modulator but no helmet). The voice says 'Your friend is no more'. He turns and we see Vader, helmet off, either from behind or face obscured by Obi-Wan. He is in a similar device to the meditation chamber in TESB, just not as elaborate. The camera pans around as the helmet is lowered and when we finally see the face it is covered by the helmet. He stands up and BAM - we see vader. Vader ignites his new red lightsaber and they fight and Vader is beating Obi Wan. He knocks Obi Wan's lightsaber out of his hand and using the force sends it flying down a hole or something. Obi wan, weaponless, is in a tight spot. He sees Anakin's old lightsaber out of the corner of his eye and uses the force to bring it to his hand, blocking Vader's blow (Anakin's Blue Saber Vs Vader's Red one. It would basically be an outward representation of the struggle that Anakin/Vader has inwardly, which is really only presented later on in ROTJ, so if you watch OT then PT it would be one of those 'oh, man, i never realized that' type scenes. It shows that Vader has not yet been able to destroy all of Anakin, and, in a way, Anakin saved Obi Wan from Vader by blocking Vader's lightsaber with his blue one).

A torpedo hits the ship (remember the battle going on outside at this point from the clone army) and causes sparks and dust and equipment to fall. Obi-Wan, knowing that Vader is more than he can handle (again, this hints its not Anakin, because they are evenly matched during the lava fight, and obi-wan maybe even seems to have the upper hand at points) takes this distraction as a way to escape. In the end Obi-Wan couldn't defeat Vader with his old saber. Luke couldn't defeat Vader with his old saber. Only Luke by refusing to fight his father could win. An allusion could be made to the fact that the lightsaber is still not the answer, it is still too much of an offensive weapon. Yoda said that A Jedi fights in defense, never offense, and it is at the end of ROTJ that we see that proven true.

Obi Wan returns to the Jedi Temple just as Palpatine makes his move to take control and the Jedi Temple gets wiped out. We see people like Mace die. Chaos ensues, Jedi are dropping like flys... Padme is giving birth as the temple falls around them. Obi Wan says 'Master Yoda, I must tell you something' but we don

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We shouldn't know if the other baby is a boy or a girl. That way it could be anyone. The one thing that was good about the prequels was the political manipulation that is going on behind the scenes. We need to have Palpatine in there a little more, just too show that he is doing something.

The rest of the Jedi, at least Obi-Wan and Yoda should learn that Palpatine is behind all of this. I also liked the fact that the Republic shifts into the Empire, rather than the Empire being some force that over-takes the Republic. I think this should be incorporated.

Padme' needs to live after the birth. Anakin thinks that he killed his wife and unborn children, but she lived and took her daughter with her to the protection of the Organa family. A sentorial family with which she had worked with in the Republic the whole time. Padme' and Bail Organa are both from the Planet Alderaan. Anakin never wants to go back there because of the guilt and pain. When it gets blown up in Episode IV he hopes that the pain will be erased, but it only eats at him more.

Man, everyone has come up with some great stuff. That was so much fun to read! I hope we can keep the ideas coming!

Until later...
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Yeah, I had a bunch of pre-conceived notions. I thought that the Emporer would be the one to f*** anakin up, and Anakin would worship him for his power but nurse a long time grudge/jealousy that would boil over in ROTJ, and tie things together that way.

I thought Anakin would have a father.

After Episode I, I thought that Anakin would return and find that his mother had died, which would begin his turn to the darkside. The way I wanted it, though, would be that Watto had somehow killed her, either through negligence or general slave owning abuse, and Anakin would then kill Watto. Killing him would shame him and devastate him, but it would also open the floodgates of his strength. I got that one pretty close.

At this point, I picture Padme being pregnant and Anakin somehow thinking that she has been killed (or her actually being killed) and assuming the twins are dead as well. Then he rushes off in a rage to confront whoever he's blaming, and spends the next however many years of his life thinking they're all dead, only to discover in the Death Star trench...

I did a lot more thinking, but those are still on the top of my head...

Oh, and a side note about Tatooine...it's supposed to be this non-republic, inconsequential ball of dirt far from the center of the galaxy. How come Naboo just happens to be next to it, and the start of the Empire? How come the rebellion is flying right by some ball of dirt far from anything else important when it is overtaken in episode 4? It just seems a little too involved for me; it comes up in every storyline and every game...
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Padme has to survive for at least a little while after the birth...i really couldnt say how long, but it needs to be long enough for Leia to develop images of her mother to remember as she stated she did in ROTJ

i think the watto thing could be interesting but i fail to see how any jedi (even the weakest of jedi) killing a toydarian would show how powerful he is, even if done completely using the force...maybe im reading that part wrong.


when did they say naboo is next to tatooine? i dont remember this at all...there was a map put out when SW Galaxies was released but i dont remember the relative locations. But after leaving naboo they went to tatooine because it was a 'near by' yet remote planet that was not under the influence of the trade federation. think about it, most likely any planet in the same solar system as naboo would also be under trade federation influence. they couldnt go real far away because of the whole lack of hyperdrive thing, but that doesnt mean they still didnt have to travel a pretty far distance.

as far as why the rebellion was 'flying right by some ball of dirt far from anything else important ' they were heading toward tatooine on purpose because Leia was going to get help from Obi-Wan. how can we forget this line:

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General Kenobi, Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars; now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person; but my ship has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to Alderaan has failed. I've placed information vital to the survival of the rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope.


the line about regretting to present her father's request in person is proof that Leia was heading to Tatooine.

though this does bring up a few points,
when did he become a general? and he was serving Bail Organa? i though he was a jedi, so would be serving the Jedi Order/the Republic

maybe episode III will answer these, guess we'll have to wait and see

-Darth Simon
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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*touchy people disclaimer*
some or all of the above comments are partially exaggerated to convey a point, none of the comments are meant as personal attacks on anyone mentioned or reference in the above post