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James teh OG

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#365316
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How would YOU re-do the prequels?
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We all agree that the prequels stuck.  And we've all thought about remaking or re-editing them.  I'm wondering how some of us would do it.

Here's how I would, to get things started.

-Cut Phantom Menace completely.  No Jar Jar, no midi-chlorians, no Jake Lloyd, already a huge improvement.

- The Jedis just called them "apprentices", not "padawans".  And they don't have to wear 80's rat tails.

- Jedis can get married.

- General Grievous kicks ass like he did in Gennedy's "Clone Wars" shorts.

- We cut out that "youngling" crap and just say "Anakin killed the children".  That at least elicits an inherent human emotional response.

Already it's sounding better, isn't it?  Now you.

 

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#365315
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Cutting just The Phantom Menace
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Recently I was going through a bout of writer's block and decided to pick up a lightweight project to get my creative juices flowing again.  An episode of "Clone Wars" happened to be on and I thought, for a laugh, I'd rewrite the Star Wars prequels so they DIDN'T suck.

 

When coming up with an outline, I realized something...what if I just cut "The Phantom Menace"?

 

Think about it!  "The Phantom Menace" easily had most of what offended fans so much about the prequel trilogy.  It's the movie that included Jar Jar, the Midi-chlorians, the racist caricatures, and Jake freaking Lloyd.  But more than that, it contains elements that're almost completely superfluous.  Qui-Gonn doesn't play a major part in the other two films, neither does Darth Maul.  Jar Jar offended fans so much his role was drastically reduced in the other two, so you might as well get rid of him compeltely.  And despite the awfulness of "Attack of the Clones" or "Revenge of the Sith", it's the only one of the prequels that got a fan re-edit. 

 

Just thinking about cutting it out has actually made me feel a lot better.  It doesn't make Clones or Revenge better films (not by a long shot) but it makes them more bearable. 

 

If Phantom was cut out, that'd leave just Clones and Revenge.  You could cobble together a new story that features elements of Gennedy Tartakovsky's "Clone Wars" shorts and James Luceno's "Rise of the Dark Lord" novel and I think you'd have a pretty solid trilogy there.

 

(sighs) If only...