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How could the Prequels be ruined? What would make them not good?
What Are the Ways the Star Wars Prequels Could Be Improved???
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How could the Prequels be ruined? What would make them not good?
The setup for Anakin/Vader's redemption is there, but you have to actually go looking for it. The main thing I usually point to is the Vader/Palpatine conversation in TESB. Lots of subtext there if you can read between the lines.
Remember that these movies are constructed in layers and the outer layer is always an action adventure movie for twelve year olds. It wouldn't do to encumber the plot too much with the inner workings of the main villain.
Remember that these movies are constructed in layers and the outer layer is always an action adventure movie for twelve year olds. It wouldn't do to encumber the plot too much with the inner workings of the main villain.
This is a cold, hard, carved in stone fact of life. Why would anyone come at you for it?
Apologies in advance...
DEPLOY THE GARRISON!!!
There's nothing really 'wrong' with RotJ and what we get in terms of setup for Anakin's redemption, but if we're trying to answer the question of how to improve the OT, making that setup more overt is an easy route to go.
Sorry, ROTJ eeks it out by the space battle and Luke vs. Vader. Also, I get more emotional over the Ewoks dying than some of the nameless Rebels.
Come at me.
There really isn't, and the PT feels a bit lacking in set up as well. Like, they are two halves of a bridge that don't quite reach.
If there was no Padme then where would Luke and Leia have come from?
Again, really? Why don't you just move on already.
That would require a lot of restructuring to scrap the character entirely, but I'd go with waiting to introduce her until Episode 2, and have her already wary about the Chancellor's increasing power and Anakin's trust in him. They go on the run (not on vacation) where they fall into a passionate affair in the heat of the moment and after she discovers his slaughter of the Sand People realizes she needs to get out of this situation but her allies (Organa, etc) encourage her to take advantage of his devotion to her to gather information on the developments among the Jedi and Palpatine. When she realizes she is pregnant he senses it and makes moves to run away together, but instead she rejects him about as gently as a bag of bricks (in an already tense moment) and in his rage he thinks he kills her. Combined with the Jedi being assholes, and the breakdown of his relationship with Obi-Wan, he feels like he has lost everything. So when it comes time for Palpatine to turn him, he is just looking to grasp on to anything to stay afloat. She recovers in secret after Obi-Wan finds her, she gives birth to the kids and lives to learn from Obi-Wan that Anakin has fallen to the Dark Side before insisting he take one of the children into hiding while she takes the other to Alderaan. The guilt of pushing him towards Palpatine rather than trying to save him crushes her.
Honestly though, there are lots of ways the role of Padme could have been replaced with a much more compelling character/storyline.
Actually, this is a much better suggestion than mine, Yeah, I should have thought for a second before I wrote "No Padme" I definitely would have cut her out of Ep. 1 entirely, not made her the Queen of Naboo or anything, more just a young, idealistic rising star Senator. The Queen of Naboo should have been an Episode One character only that was only there to give the Jedi something to protect, and inadvertently lead them to Anakin, I think Padme should have been from another planet all together.
Make all three of them Attack of the Clones?
These suggestions for removing or changing Padme's role would make the Prequels WORSE, and smack of really bad fanfiction.
Not necessarily.
And I'm willing to bet that those people completely missed the point of why the films were structured the way they were narratively.
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