Originally posted by: darkhelmetLooks like a pretty comprehensive story arc in both posts. My friend and I talked about retelling the prequels' story, and it's pretty amazing that we came up with a similar connection for Owen, Beru and Anakin.
It all sounds pretty cool, but having Luke fall into lava, too? How does that work?
Interesting that we came up with a similar idea for Owen, Beru and Anakin. But then, the connection between these characters needs to exist and a strong connection is better than a weak one. The actual prequels has a weak one.
It's like the difference between the theatrical and special editions of Aliens. In the Special Edition, Ripley had a daughter who had died of old age before she was found in suspended animation, so she attaches herself to the young girl Newt as a mother looking for a lost daughter or something like that. The theatrical version has no such set-up and it just appears that Ripley attaches to Newt out of awakening maternal instincts and a common bond as two people who had survived the Alien creatures. There is a debate on this, but I find the theatiracl version to have a stronger bond.
As for Luke falling into the lava, it's not Luke, obviously, but a ruse to fool Vader. Luke was actually already secreted off to the Owen and Beru. The ruse was necessary because if Vader and the Emperor did not think Luke was dead, they would have kept looking until they found him. I had thought this was a useful plot device and helps tie things better to the next trilogy. It makes Obi Wan's failure appear complete when he cuts off Vader's hand and then tries to catch the infant by only grabs a corner of the blanket which unrolls and the infant (possibly a droid or something) falls into the lava (or whatever. Using lava again may not be the best idea). His failure complete, He departs and Vader lets him go thinking he's won, saying "He will only return to die by my hand."
And I've had this vision set in my mind about the Clone Wars from early speculation about it involving Boba Fett's people, the Mandalorian.
One of the early ideas, I believe, was that the Clones were clones of the Mandalorian (like the Prequels), but they were made by the Mandalorian for their own use. And I can't help but love the idea of a sky-flying Mandalorians taking on an army of Jedi.
That being said, and aside from the fact that the OT reference is specifically to "clone", your "Cloan" idea is pretty ingenious.
Part of the reason for 'Cloan' is that it's likely to get more hits from a search engine for those who wish to find it, should I ever make anything out of this. However, my vision is pretty much in line with your vision. The Cloans I mention are Boba Fett's people. The term Mandalorian does not appear in the OOT, so I feel alright not using it. But maybe you have something there. In fact, it was a concept I had earlier. I have not fully dispensed of the idea, but I'm not as sure about it, either, hence why I did not include it in the synopsis above. Part of my plan is to have a young Cloan/Mandalorian character named Boba Fett appear, giving him something to actually do besides just looking badass in the OOT before dying stupidly.
In fact, he might be useful in the stuff about Luke's "death" above. Have him shoot at ObiWan but him "Luke" instead, adding a history to the "No disintigations." line in ESB. I mean, if Boba had disintigrated Vader's son, you'd bet he'd be pissed.
Yeah, I'm feeling burn-out over the whole SW thing, and once I'm done with my Episode 3 re-edit, I may drop it for the most part.
