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You make it sound as if it's still under consideration.

It's a done deal.
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THE WHOLE PROBLEM WITH THE aNAKIN /pADME ROMANCE (oops hate capslock!) was that it was too deliberate and contrived, it would have been a far more believable, and more exciting for the audience if they had been drawn together through conflict or in the heat of battle , rather than a relaxing weekend of stilted pretentious dialogue at Padme's summerhouse!(yawn!).

in my movie I would have had the pair's transport ship come under attack whilst en-route to Naboo, had them narrowly escaping capture and perhaps even crash landing an escape pod on TAttooine and beefing up the search for Anakin's mother, by -passing Naboo all-together.
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Originally posted by: buddy-x-wing
in my movie I would have had the pair's transport ship come under attack whilst en-route to Naboo, had them narrowly escaping capture and perhaps even crash landing an escape pod on TAttooine and beefing up the search for Anakin's mother, by -passing Naboo all-together.


I dunno about the whole crash landing on tattooine, it seems like a whole continuity plug that Lucas would make. I can almost see the commentary for that scene: (**this is in no way meant in a negative way to buddy-x-wing's comment**)

"Well see, im George Lucas, and i really want to force the whole connection for the prequals with my original movie, so here we have Anakin and Padme landing an escape pod on tatooine. What really makes this work and actually funny/ironic is that in the original trilogy, this is how R2 and C-3PO first arrived on tatooine and eventually met with Luke. Speaking of R2 and C-3PO the whole reason their in the movie is because they were characters I could reuse to again force this continuity and the great thing is I can use the original actors since you never see their faces and wont realize this movie was filmed after the orignal. And it eliminates my whole having to change actors in the OT, which Ill probably do anyway just cause I can, but thats mainly because I like to piss of the fans that made the movie so successful and gave me my fortune and thus by allowing me to ruin the movies...see there's more of my killer irony at work.
"But back to forcing the continuity, see when I was writing the prequals I removed all memory of the originals from my mind, because as you know they no longer exist, so instead of doing the logical thing and make the prequals work with the originals I decided to make the originals work with the prequals. My reasoning here was that I really intended to make the prequals first, but due to the lack of technology at the time It just wasnt feasible to use the back story to the orignals, oh and I hadnt actually even conceived the idea of making anything other than the one movie even though I constantly say things that go counter to this."

But as i said, this isnt meant as an attack on buddy-x-wing's idea, but more a criticism on Lucas' apparent new found creative impulse. I actually like buddy's idea, but rather than accidental you could make it so that its a deleberate escape to tatooine (thats the part i have the problem with because it seems too much like the rest of lucas' forced connections between new and old). It was established that Anakin was worried about his mother. So while on their way to naboo they come under attack and manage to escape aboard some personal starship (being on 'public' transportation they didnt really have to power to redirect their flight path so this lets them change course) The attack would have to be a more general attack in search of them (Padme), with them managing to escape relativly unnoticed, after they boarded this 'borrowed' ship, Anakin would set course to tatooine with the dual purpose of hiding from the attackers (bounty hunters) and giving him the opportunity to find his mother. I think something like that would actually work, if done properly of course

-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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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
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that's what I was thinking, as far as the escape pod crashing on tattooine, I kinda added that as an afterthought as a bit of a recurring (although cheesy) motif, I just thought that the Naboo scenes in episode 2 brought the movie to a grinding halt at the expense of making more of the whole Tatooine/Schmi thing.
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But at least Naboo is purdier than Tatooin.

Es mas bonita que....

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