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- What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
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Originally posted by: vote_for_palpatine
Understand that while I much prefer the OT, I can watch (and enjoy to an extent) the PT. I'm probably not alone in thinking that there were elements missing from the PT which would have made it better.
Here's a small list:
An angry, ill-tempered Darth Maul. For a young Sith apprentice, he sure was composed and serene. Why wouldn't he be bubbling cauldron of anger?
Episode I - Anakin at 19-20 years old. As millions of fans have observed many times.
Anakin sparring with Obi-Wan. Lucas loves the obvious foreshadowing - why not this?
Anything else?
Understand that while I much prefer the OT, I can watch (and enjoy to an extent) the PT. I'm probably not alone in thinking that there were elements missing from the PT which would have made it better.
Here's a small list:
An angry, ill-tempered Darth Maul. For a young Sith apprentice, he sure was composed and serene. Why wouldn't he be bubbling cauldron of anger?
Episode I - Anakin at 19-20 years old. As millions of fans have observed many times.
Anakin sparring with Obi-Wan. Lucas loves the obvious foreshadowing - why not this?
Anything else?
1) An arc running across all three movies. I'm not talking about "one event that happens in this time frame" then skipping ahead a few years, I mean a single stretch of time (3 to 5 years) that runs across all three films and sets up Anakin's distrust in the Jedi Council and his subsequent betrayal. Not this stupid stuff in II and III where he's some whiny petulant teenager who essentially turns to the dark side of the Force after 3.5 seconds of thought.
2) To quote a certain poster on this board, NO FRIGGIN' MIDICHLORIANS.
3) Not having random planets like Naboo or Mustafar that show up in one or two films and are completely disregarded in the OT (although Lucas tried to rectify this in the 2004 release, it's still out-of-place). Stick to an established OT planet or use something from the EU.
4) Try to set up the events in the OT throughout all three films instead of jamming 30 different plot contrivances in the last hour of Revenge Of The Sith. It smacks of lazy writing.
5) Comic relief works...in small doses. Having a clearly buffoonish character who speaks in a silly accent is a terrible distraction to the plot.
6) Wasting numerous supporting characters like Count Dooku (guy's a lightsaber master and has, what, two short fights?), Ki-Adi Mundi, Chewbacca (WHY???????? WHY?!?!?), Shmi Skywalker (sits around and talks, then gets kidnapped, raped, and dies), Chancellor Valorum, Mon Mothma (how do you waste someone as important as her?), Bail Organa (what, flying a vehicle around is character development?) and others.
7) Have Anakin feel a distrust about Obi-Wan even when he first meets him, instead of them being all buddy-buddy throughout I, II and part of III.
8) Build UP the suspense! Don't have a plot about a massive potentially damaging clone war and suddenly side-track it to focus on picnics in the grass.
9) Show the seeds of the Rebellion being sown, even in TPM. Have a group of splinter Jedi or Council members harbouring a distrust of the government and alluding to bad things that Palpatine has done, but no one will listen, or something to that effect.
10) No Jar-Jar Binks. Or Gungans, for that matter.
11) Show more of the Jedi Order, instead of a bunch of bored Jedi sitting around in a circle debating current issues.
12) Stop distilling the prequels with characters who show up for 5 minutes, give plot exposition and disappear. It should focus on a smaller group of principal characters.
13) Don't skip the Clone War (and no, I don't count the Clone Wars cartoon as SW canon, even though I like the series as a whole)
14) Stop relying on CGI to make a point. Having a good plot is just as important as trying to showcase the latest advances in computer technology. And what, no miniatures?
15) Have Vader be introduced somewhat sooner (perhaps in the earlier part of the third film) and give him MORE TO DO, instead of having him stand around like Frankenstein 2.0 and screaming out for his wife in a silly voice.
That's about it, I think.