re: Who should have played Anakin?

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I thought McGregor nailed Obi Wan

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I excluded him, explicitly. He appeared to be the only one plugged in. The problem is we saw less and less of him, and more of the kid - not that it mattered.

My revised outline:

Film 1 - Anakin as a teenager, applies for Jedi training. Is accepted, but is a discipline problem - kind of gets it together at the end, though. Crisis with the emergence of Palpatine and a large Sith army (it never had to specify there were only 2 Sith, that was a self-inflicted wound.) Protagonist: Anakin. Antagonist: (sort of) - Yoda and the Jedi council.


Film 2 - The clone war starts - people are dying left and right. Palpatine begins introducing the Dark Side to various Jedi apprentices - a couple rat him out, but Skywalker is tempted - he is ambitious and impatient, but a great pilot. At the end, there is a turning point - Palpatine working on the inside and the large Sith army pressing in - there is, finally, an invasion. Protagonist: Yoda. Antagonist: The purported leader of the Sith army (but, actually, Palpatine's apprentice).

Film 3 - After a significant war of attrition, the actual "force wielders" numbers dwindle rapidly - until a handful on each side - Palpatine has not revealed himself. In the final battle, Palpatine comes in as Obi-Wan, Yoda and Anakin finish off the last of the Sith "Lords" - Palpatine turns Anakin with promises of greatness - Yoda keeps Palpatine occupied while Obi Wan f*cks up Skywalker. However, this battle buys enough time for Palpatine's conventional reinforcements to arrive. Protagonist: Obi Wan. Antagonists: Palpatine and Vader.

Seeing the writing on the wall, Yoda and Obi-Wan escape with the mother of Skywalker's children (and it never had to be a Queen - Leia could have just been raised by a King/Queen), as these children represent "the last hope".

No midi-clorians, no Jar-Jar and no "trade federation". The war should have been Sith and Jedi, (and their conventional auxiliaries), exclusively. No, "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!". None of that crap.

Would it have been perfect? No. Would it have been better than the crap we saw? Certainly.