Post by Falconer on Nov 14, 2019 17:09:39 GMT -6
I don’t love the PT, but I have been thinking lately of what “minimal” changes would have “saved” the PT for me.
EPISODE ONE - “More or less TPM.” TPM’s timeframe of 32 BBY is fine, but Kenobi and Skywalker should already be at least at the ages we see them as in AotC. Follows the basic storyline of TPM - Skywalker is a non-Jedi hotshot pilot who meets Kenobi and helps him save a planet. But the conflict in question is the END OF THE CLONE WARS, and instead of Naboo it should feature Alderaan, the planet that Kenobi is general of. Darth Maul no, Count Dooku yes. We get to know other Jedi Knights: quasi-independent wandering warriors with a code; we meet them in the field, not in a council chamber.
EPISODE TWO - “More or less RotS.” 19 BBY. Fall of the Republic and of Skywalker. The major difference is that we don’t yet kill off all the Jedi by this point.
EPISODE THREE - “More or less R1.” A “Seven Samurai” sort of movie, where the seven heroes are the Jedi we have gotten to know over the past two movies (including Kenobi), and they are being hunted down by Darth Vader. The Rebel Alliance is established; more Bail and Leia.
There are still a ton of small changes I would make even with all the above being said, but the one major change would be to recast Anakin Skywalker completely. They got him all wrong! He shouldn’t have been a pretty boy, but a serious man with pathos - a great man who falls into great evil.
EPISODE ONE - “More or less TPM.” TPM’s timeframe of 32 BBY is fine, but Kenobi and Skywalker should already be at least at the ages we see them as in AotC. Follows the basic storyline of TPM - Skywalker is a non-Jedi hotshot pilot who meets Kenobi and helps him save a planet. But the conflict in question is the END OF THE CLONE WARS, and instead of Naboo it should feature Alderaan, the planet that Kenobi is general of. Darth Maul no, Count Dooku yes. We get to know other Jedi Knights: quasi-independent wandering warriors with a code; we meet them in the field, not in a council chamber.
EPISODE TWO - “More or less RotS.” 19 BBY. Fall of the Republic and of Skywalker. The major difference is that we don’t yet kill off all the Jedi by this point.
EPISODE THREE - “More or less R1.” A “Seven Samurai” sort of movie, where the seven heroes are the Jedi we have gotten to know over the past two movies (including Kenobi), and they are being hunted down by Darth Vader. The Rebel Alliance is established; more Bail and Leia.
There are still a ton of small changes I would make even with all the above being said, but the one major change would be to recast Anakin Skywalker completely. They got him all wrong! He shouldn’t have been a pretty boy, but a serious man with pathos - a great man who falls into great evil.
