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Gaffer Tape said:
For Padme and Qui-Gon, their realized potential was certainly written but then discarded, either on the proverbial editing room floor (because we all know there was no actual film to drop on a floor!) or earlier than that. However, Padme's cut potential of forming the Rebel Alliance... eh, I'm not too upset that that's gone. The prequels were already full of implausible, coincidental oddities (C-3PO, R2-D2, Jango Fett, Chewbacca with Yoda, and the list goes on...) that Padme forming the Rebellion would just have been another kick in the groin. I just hope its deletion removes it from canon.
Padme's rebel alliance formation scenes seem to be considered canon, but the actual formation of the alliance seems to be now in Force Unleashed. But none of it's real Star Wars canon anyway (the only real Star Wars canon is the OOT). The rebellion-related cut scenes in ROTS were incredibly lame, with Padme's pals coming off like a total bunch of posers and idiots. And Lucas's daughter's in there as this blue girl. I agree that they pushed things in the prequels with Anakin building 3PO and Yoda being best buds with Chewbacca. That stuff comes off implausible and artificial and helps to make the prequels feel all the more forced and unreal.
As for Qui-Gon... eh, he wasn't there, but I feel it worked just as well as it could have been. I read the part of the script where he actually talked, and, honestly, the whole Force Ghost thing didn't seem any more "explained" there than what we actually got. And I didn't mind that he devised it. It didn't seem nearly as asinine as the above coincidences I listed. Maybe it's because Qui-Gon already felt disconnected enough from the OT that it doesn't seem so implausible. Or maybe it's because it's a broad concept rather than a direct event/character, and that's why it doesn't seem as stupid. Then again, I never needed an explanation for the Force Ghost thing at all until Phantom Menace didn't have them fade away. Then again, I suppose I can forgive that with the increased number of Jedi, many of whom were constantly dying within seconds of one another, especially in the latter two prequels. It just would have seemed weird to have a constant stream of disappearing bodies. But with all the things that didn't make sense in the prequels, the force ghost explanation pretty much goes under my radar.
I don't like the prequel take on force ghosts. It seems revisionist to me. Not that everybody has to vanish when dead -Darth Vader clearly didn't know what was going on when Kenobi vanished, so clearly not all Jedi do that. And Luke burned Vader's body (non-vanished) at the end of ROTJ and Anakin still appeared as a force ghost. Of course nowadays they claim that it's only Vader's outfit that was burned in ROTJ and the body was gone, but I don't buy that crap. But the Qui-Gon-invents-force-ghosts thing clearly wasn't around in the old days, because Qui Gon was invented for TPM in the 90s.
Mind you, I really like Qui Gon, because Neeson does a great job with him. He's the best thing in the prequels by far. An appearance by him might have added something to ROTS. As it is now, ROTS has absolutely nothing of value in it.
And as for Grievous, he was a total waste of a character. There was no potential to tap in the first place, and the world would have been a better place had he never been invented at all. That damned, irritating, waste-of-space, cliched, inept, non-threatening, unfunny, unsympathetic, uninteresting, poorly-conceived, poorly-directed, poorly-executed excuse for a major villain can suck my lightsaber as far as I'm concerned! Man, I hate that... thing!
Greivous was the evil counterpart to Jar Jar and like him a cartoon character that didn't belong in live action Star Wars.
