Hunter6

How Star Wars Episode III failed the Star Wars Saga

1. Episode III destroyed the Classic "I am your Father" moment of Episode V.
(Anakin Skywalker becoming Vader should have not been shown before the Classic "I am your Father" moment of Episode V. Episode III should have started years after the so-called "death of Anakin Skywalker by Vader". Episode III should have focus on the new villain "Vader".
A character like General Grievous should not have been in Episode III. General Vader {a pre-version of Darth Vader from an early star wars Episode IV script} should have been in Episode III. The Secret of Vader should have been not told in Episode III.
In Episode I, Jake Lloyd played Anakin Skywalker. In Episode II, Hayden Christensen played Anakin Skywalker. In Episode III, another actor should have been used and not Hayden Christensen again.
It makes more scents for Vader {played by another actor} to be the main villain in Episode III then Anakin Skywalker {played by Hayden Christensen} as the main villain in Episode III, Also it would had not destroyed the Classic "I am your Father" moment of Episode V.)
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2. Episode III destroyed the Classic "Leia is really Luke's Sister" moment of Episode VI.
(Episode III destroyed the Classic "Leia is Luke Sister" moment of Episode VI by showing The birth of Luke and Leia. The Secret of Luke and Leia should have not been told in Episode III.
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3. Episode III conflicts with the classic "Leia remembers her real mother and Luke does not remember her" moment of Episode VI.
(In Episode III, Padme dies right after giving birth to Luke and Leia. This conflicts with the classic "Leia remembers her real mother and Luke does not remember her" moment of Episode VI. The birth of Luke and Leia and Padme's death should have not been linked. Padme should have live for a few years after The birth of Luke and Leia. The best thing would have been not to show The birth of Luke and Leia and Padme's death in Episode III.)
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4. Episode III conflicts with the classic line "Last time we met, I was the Student, Now I am the master" of Episode IV.
(In Episode III, Anakin saw himself as a Jedi master and that conflicts with Episode IV in which Vader states that the last time Obi-Wan and he met, he was a student and not a master. The Anakin of Episode III saw himself as a master and would never call himself a student.)
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5. Episode III messes up the story telling time line.
(Episode II is ten years after Episode I, but Episode III is only three years after Episode II. The time span from Episode II to Episode IV is 22 years. Episode III should have been 11 years after Episode II and taken place after Anakin Skywalker had turned into Vader, after Luke and Leia's birth and after Padme's death. This seems to fit better into the Star Wars Saga and it would have NOT conflicted with the classic "Leia remembers her real mother" moment of Episode VI or destroy the Classic "Leia is really Luke's Sister" moment of Episode VI or destroy the Classic "I am your Father" moment of Episode V. also it would have made it so Episode III could have more emotion depth to the OT like showing an eight year old Leia with her foster parents on her homeworld {Leia's foster parents and her homeworld are destroyed in Episode IV} or an eight year old luke befriending old ben and luke's childhood with his aunt and uncle {old ben, luke's aunt and uncle are killed in Episode IV}. Episode III should have been 11 years after Episode II and 11 years before Episode IV. This is were the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game/novel/comic hits the nail on the head and were the Episode III movie fails.)
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6. Episode III is an Opening Crawl story like the other Prequel films.
(Episode III's story was a story best left for the Opening Crawl. We should have not seen the fall of Anakin Skywalker or heard about in Episode III because it conflicts with the story telling of The Star Wars Saga. The truth is that Obi-Wan tells us all we need to know about the fall of Anakin Skywalker in Episode VI and Episode III add very little to that.
Some main things Obi-Wan talk about in the OT are not shown in Prequel films. One thing is "The Clone Wars" and another is "The Dark Times". the Prequel films show only the lead-up to these things. The Story of Episode I did not need to be an two hours film, The Story of Episode II did not need to be an two hours film and The Story of Episode III did not need to be an two hours film. All the Prequel films stories should have been told in Opening Crawls. Episode II should have shown The Clone Wars and not the lead-up to it. Episode III needed to be about "The Dark Times" and not the fall of Anakin Skywalker.
In Episode III, we should have thought that Anakin was killed by a new villain called Vader sometime between Episode II and Episode III. In Episode III, we should have saw "The Dark Times" in which a fully armor and cyborg Vader (not Anakin) hunts down the Jedi and has his last battle with obi-wan before Episode IV.
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