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BlackFriday Dreadlord from Syracuse, Utah Since: May, 2009
Dreadlord
#226: Mar 30th 2011 at 12:21:00 PM

How about this? If they take the time to stay right outside the command center, more and more droids will come, until they're swarmed, and it's all irrelevant. I'm a bit annoyed, so I didn't read the last few posts, but this argument's pretty pointless, they couldn't have gotten into the command center with droids firing at them like that, they don't know how thick the doors are, so they had to book it and come up with another plan.

NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#227: Mar 30th 2011 at 12:29:20 PM

How about this? If they take the time to stay right outside the command center, more and more droids will come, until they're swarmed, and it's all irrelevant
I didn't read the last few posts

If you'd read the last few posts, you'd have seen:

•simply send waves of droids, rather than two, at the jedi and have them decide that there are too many to take out.

edited 30th Mar '11 12:50:32 PM by NULLcHiLD27

Maridee from surfside Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
#228: Mar 30th 2011 at 1:04:46 PM

There could've been a Jedi planet.

ophelia, you're breaking my heart
NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#229: Mar 30th 2011 at 1:07:45 PM

[up]Well, why wouldn't they be on Courasant? It's practically the center of the universe alreadytongue

BorneAgain (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#230: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:19:48 AM

While it did make some sense to have the Jedi on Coruscant given that they were guardians of peace and justice of, I could just as equally seem them on their own secluded world, away from the busy and noisy center of the Republic.

NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#231: Apr 8th 2011 at 4:50:46 AM

Eh, it makes more sense to me for them to be where everyone else would be.

That way if someone had a problem (maybe one that the Republic couldn't do anything for or do quickly enough), the person could just bounce over to the temple and ask them to send a jedi or two.

Or if the Republic itself needed help, the temple is right down the blck, rather than a few lightyears.

It wouldn't really matter in terms of the story, so I'd be fine with it either way.

MadassAlex I am vexed! from the Middle Ages. Since: Jan, 2001
I am vexed!
#232: Apr 8th 2011 at 5:46:02 AM

It strikes me now that a fair few lightsaber moves are incredibly inefficient considering that the weapons have weightless blades.

Swordsman TroperReclaiming The BladeWatch
Premonition45 Since: Mar, 2011
#233: Apr 8th 2011 at 8:28:52 AM

As much as I liked them, the biggest way I'd do the PT differently is by making Anakin a bit older in TPM, and discovered by Obi-Wan. Qui-Gon can still be involved as an old master of Obi-Wan, the way I see it.

edited 8th Apr '11 2:10:56 PM by Premonition45

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#234: Apr 8th 2011 at 1:10:26 PM

It would have made the "Are you an angel?" line less stupid. Well, it would have been better had that line never been written in the first place.

blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
#235: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:03:26 PM

Made OB-1 a clone.

Had some reason for Palpatine to act the way he did. Backstory!

Had Boba Fett disintegrate Padme, who may or may not have given birth already.

More Chewbacca!

NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#236: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:06:01 PM

[up] 1. I have no clue what you're saying.

2. Not entirely necessary.

3. Eh.

4. Yes, because more fanservice is the answertongue

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#237: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:12:21 PM

Chewbacca's already been thrown into the Clone Wars CGI show.

blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
#238: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:14:12 PM

There was some story about how Obi-Wan was actually OB-1, a clone. It was more interesting than anything in the movies.

They just lacked any kind of depth, even a phantom one.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#239: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:15:31 PM

^I thought that was just a WMG we have.

blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
#240: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:17:55 PM

I dunno, I heard about it back in the 90s.

And the promos for that Clone Wars episode are what inspired me.

edited 8th Apr '11 2:18:43 PM by blueharp

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#241: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:20:05 PM

Granted, when I first saw A New Hope and the Clone Wars was mentioned I was thinking it was Jedi vs evil clone Jedi.

blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
#242: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:25:59 PM

I thought it was they had "cloned" the Emperor with a duplicate or imposter, or several, and it was a war over who was the legitimate one. Or even a rebellion by the Clones.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#243: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:26:55 PM

if it was a rebellion it would have been called the "Clone Rebellions" or something.

blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
#244: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:33:18 PM

Naming of wars can be a contentious issue, as I was hearing on the radio today.

I imagine there's people who call the Clone Wars something else, like:

The Secession of the Traders The War of Jedi Aggression Dooku's Uprising

Regardless, it was ambiguous enough to be interesting, which was not a bad thing.

edited 8th Apr '11 2:33:53 PM by blueharp

Premonition45 Since: Mar, 2011
#245: Apr 8th 2011 at 2:50:58 PM

I wouldn't have had Padme die after childbirth. I'd have her go with Bail Organa to Alderaan and die a few years afterwards.

Boston Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
#246: Apr 9th 2011 at 8:35:40 AM

Timothy Zahn already did cloned Jedi to death in his first trilogy.

Regarding the droidekas, the reason they're allowed to roll on, uncurl, raise shields and open fire isn't because it's the first time the Jedi are seeing them, but because it's the first time the _audience_ is seeing them.

Maridee from surfside Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
#247: Apr 9th 2011 at 10:39:20 AM

[up]But it's not like the average public would have read that.

I think there could be a lot of potential in a prequel trilogy based upon the release of clone Jedi into the world. Certainly would create a lot of drama.

...Darth Vader could've been Anakin's clone who replaced him and had all his memories.

ophelia, you're breaking my heart
shiro_okami Since: Apr, 2010
#248: Apr 9th 2011 at 11:16:33 AM

[up][up][up] Which would naturally avert a gaping plot hole in ROTJ.

willyolio Since: Jan, 2001
#249: Apr 17th 2011 at 12:45:12 AM

A small change would have made it a lot better:

Anakin was already a young teen by the first film. This will do several things:

  • no horrible young child actor who can't emote worth a damn.
  • Anakin/Padme not nearly as creepy. Ok, so 13-14 is still a bit young, but Padme looked to be in her late teens, at most.
  • To train Anakin or not would actually seem like a hard decision. When we see scenes of other young jedi in training, they're what, one year younger than Anakin? really, so that's the window they have to find and recruit Jedi? No, if he was already 13-14, it would be very understandable that it's too late to begin his training. He's already nearing his independent years, he's probably too old to form the mental discipline foundations before he gets into his angsty rebellious teen years, etc.
  • He will also seem more of a prodigy when he DOES get trained, in 3-4 short years while others take a decade to get where he's at, when he's 16. As far as the movie goes, his exceptional power seemed like an Informed Ability.

RockTheCasbah Since: Oct, 2010
#250: Apr 17th 2011 at 3:55:10 AM

Simplify everything - start completely from scratch, cut away the excess, and remember what made the originals work. Remember the driving force of Episode IV? The Empire have a Death Star. We need to blow up the death star. Episode V? Luke needs to become a Jedi. Let's train him. Han's being chased by bounty hunters. Let's escape them. Episode VI? The Empire are building another Death Star. We need to blow up the other Death Star.

It's deceptively simple. All the myriad side plots fitted around those simple, basic central plot strands, unlike the prequels which forgot where their priorities lay and often stalled for large amounts of time on relatively unimportant side arcs like the pod races, or badly handled the main arcs like the Padme/Anakin love affair.


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