If you'd read the last few posts, you'd have seen:
edited 30th Mar '11 12:50:32 PM by NULLcHiLD27
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.
It strikes me now that a fair few lightsaber moves are incredibly inefficient considering that the weapons have weightless blades.
Swordsman Troper — Reclaiming The Blade — WatchNaming 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
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 heartA 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.
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.

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.