WyoWilliam
Active Member
Everything I IMAGINED actually comes from the OT - it was almost spelled out.
Anakin was close(er) to Obi wan in age. He was an actual PILOT, not a "podracer". R2- might have been his co-pilot and is why he knows his way around Tatooine while Threepio was off translating for the Queen. (Duh) He had some sort of close relationship with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru (She remembers him fondly, Owen not so much.) He probably started his Jedi training kind-of late and it's why Yoda tells Luke he's too old to begin training. Obi-wan, not Qui-Gon, really believed in him, or felt sorry for him and is why HE trained him, but Anakin was probably always kind of a hot-head and overly cocky. (Would have been fun to see that kind of Han-Solo charisma in the lead, and made his fall all that more painful. As it was, when he finally turns in that ridiculous scene with Windu I almost laughed. "OK, Guess I'm evil now - time to slaughter some kids!!") He looses his wife and children (Maybe the Jedi trick him into believing they're dead, which is why he turns to the Dark Side, and is why he doesn't go looking for them, but not before Anakin gives Obi-Wan his lightsaber to give to Luke. Padme lives long enough for Leia to remember her and dies of damned-near anything other than sadness.)
Lucas could have done the entire series (with a capable writer doing the heavy lifting) around the exposition in the first three films, not made Obi-Wan a pathological liar, created a bunch of weird plot-holes, and not disappointed thousands of fans.
I realize they are better in many ways that what has followed since, but they are a long, long way from good.
Anakin was close(er) to Obi wan in age. He was an actual PILOT, not a "podracer". R2- might have been his co-pilot and is why he knows his way around Tatooine while Threepio was off translating for the Queen. (Duh) He had some sort of close relationship with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru (She remembers him fondly, Owen not so much.) He probably started his Jedi training kind-of late and it's why Yoda tells Luke he's too old to begin training. Obi-wan, not Qui-Gon, really believed in him, or felt sorry for him and is why HE trained him, but Anakin was probably always kind of a hot-head and overly cocky. (Would have been fun to see that kind of Han-Solo charisma in the lead, and made his fall all that more painful. As it was, when he finally turns in that ridiculous scene with Windu I almost laughed. "OK, Guess I'm evil now - time to slaughter some kids!!") He looses his wife and children (Maybe the Jedi trick him into believing they're dead, which is why he turns to the Dark Side, and is why he doesn't go looking for them, but not before Anakin gives Obi-Wan his lightsaber to give to Luke. Padme lives long enough for Leia to remember her and dies of damned-near anything other than sadness.)
Lucas could have done the entire series (with a capable writer doing the heavy lifting) around the exposition in the first three films, not made Obi-Wan a pathological liar, created a bunch of weird plot-holes, and not disappointed thousands of fans.
I realize they are better in many ways that what has followed since, but they are a long, long way from good.