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another thought:
in the OT, if Luke killed Vader (out of anger) that would have been the shocking catalyst towards his journey to the dark side.  it was climactic.

in the PT, anakin killed a ton of tuskin raiders. ok.  then kills dooku. ok.  then kills jedi and kids. ok.  at which point was i supposed to feel suspense?  there was no suspense to anakins turn to the dark side.  maybe i was supposed to feel suspense when preteen anakin gave stink eye to mace windu in ep. 1.

I like the OT version of turning to the dark side.  The lines were a little more blurred.  In fact, Darth Vader was always supposed to be in this grey area of the dark side since Luke could see good in him and so did the audience since Vader never seemed to really wanted to kill his son.  By watching Luke and the Emperor interact, we sort of learn by killing out of anger, you would be maybe turning to the dark side.  Nothing is for sure because it seems alot of factors come into play such as the strength of character.

the PT makes turning to the dark side much more typical and obvious. do evil and act like a whiny bitch and obviously, thats dark side.  they made anakin turn into pure evil which kills the idea that there may still be some good in him.  yea he showed some concern for Padme but it felt empty (as did that whole relationship in the first place).  turning to the dark side here was definitely believable, but boring to watch, predictable and melodramatic. 

by the way, i think both OT and PT needed to say more about the benefits of staying in the light side... or the disadvantages of the dark side (besides acting like a douche)

Midichlorians are not important because they are not important to the OT story

When C3PO tells R2 (in ANH) "Just you reconsider playing that message" I thought he was saying it ironically. BECAUSE in the next line few lines when he says "No I don't like you either" I THOUGHT he said "No I don't like him either" so I thought the droids didn't like Luke and 3PO was putting on an act like he was trying to help him see the message.

TheBoost said:

Let the new material have 12 hours of movies to be consistent with, and ignore everything else.

Those 12 hours are not even consistent with themselves!

i like that idea.  less exposition is more.  however there still needs to have a hopeful scene at the end (like what we see in ESB) and a shot of baby luke on Tatooine was a good hopeful scene.  If there was a shot like that but with padme still pregnant looking into the distance, then that would work too but i dont recall any scene like that.

i liked how it cut away to some other scene when Anakin cut off dookus head. its more dramatic that way.

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