My Star Wars Prequel Ideas: How it should have went

I am aware that plenty of fans have written their thoughts on the prequels and how they would have wanted it to happen. Most of the descriptions are long. I am just going to write a short (as I can). George Lucas' original trilogy worked so well because he had different directors. He tried getting other ones for the prequels like Steven Speilberg, Ron Howard and Robert Zemeckis but they all turned him down, thinking he should do it. Lucas needs a story editor, he works better with special effects and CGI.

The original trilogy had key facts about the past:

• Obi Wan fought in the Clone Wars
• Obi Wan served Leia's adopted father from Alderaan
• Leia remembers her mother being sad
• Uncle Owen didn't believe Anakin should've gotten involved in the war
• Anakin was already a pilot before Obi Wan met him.
• Obi Wan thought he could train Anakin as good as Yoda.

Things I liked about Lucas' prequels:

• Obi-Wan's disappointment in Anakin
• Anakin and Padme falling in love
• Anakin being the cause of Padme's death even thogh he wanted to prevent it
• The clones of the Clone Wars being Janko Fett, father of Boba Fett.

Episode I

I liked the name Phantom Menace and I like Darth Maul, many agree they should had kept him a little longer. I found it was pretty obvious that Sentor Palaptine was the Emperor as he was the same actor but I have no problem with it though. Other names I would had chose would be: A Jedi's Hope or Peace Disrupted

• First of all, I wouldn't have Anakin be a child, more a bit older. I know that defeats the whole Jedis being trained as little kids but if they really needed Anakin as a kid, maybe in the beginning of the movie and moved on.
• Pod race was fine but I would had appreciated it being in space so he was a 'real pilot.'
• Instead of being an only child with no dad, I would had appreciated Anakin to have his brother Owen and know him a little better.
• I didn't like that in a deleted scene for The Attack of the Clones, Padme visited her family and it was mom, dad and bunch of kids. Padme was basically had away at summer camp being Queen. So her being an orphan is fine, or at least her father was a king and died mid-way.
• Anakin DID NOT build C3-PO which makes no sense.
• Gungans do not exist in my version. The main conflict should be the Jedi vs the Sith, and Dath Maul.
• Have Qui Gon Jinn killed by Darth Maul but get away with it and leave.

Episode II

I know he was going for the whole 30's serials with the title "Attack of the Clones" but I didn't like it. Empire Strikes Back also had that feeling but as kids we accepted it. It isn't as corny. I wanted this movie to be the romantic one but it is barely romantic. I would keep Count Dooku but remove the whole Obiwan and Anakin fighting monsters and Padme being captured. Titles I'd prefer: Secret of the Clones or Secrets Uncovered or Moonlight

• Keep Anakin killing the sandpeople that killed his mom.
• Maybe C3-PO is introduced here as Padme's assistant.
• Build a bit on Anakin and Owen's relationship and him telling him not to join the war.
• Expand more on Janko Fett and his son.
• Expand the battle of Count Dooku, the Jedi and the clones
• Expand on the romance between Anakin and Padme, since in this version they would be closer in age. Anakin and Padme would marry earlier on. Obi Wan would be more against it.
• Build on Anakin's relationship with Senator Palptine and hint more on his diversion to evil.
• Keep Anakin's arm chopped off of course. Have Darth Maul do it and have Obi-Wan kill Darth Maul.
• Have clearer explanation about Jedis retaining their identities after death and only a few can be Force Ghosts.

Episode III

I would keep the title "Revenge of the Sith"

• Anakin killing Mace Windu at least in a different location and not with that giant window, I always think that of the people that have to fix that glass.
• Change that awkward scene where Obi Wan tells Padme that he knows the Anakin is the father.
• And change some people calling Obi Wan as "young" as later on he is old only less than 30 years later in "A New Hope."
• Padme would had faked her death at childbirth to keep Darth Vader away
• Padme would marry Bail Prestor Organa (Jimmy Smits) and go under an assumed name and live with Leia.
• Luke would still be given to Owen and Beru.
• Padme would had left Organa and Leia alone one night and go to another planet and discovered by Dath Vader, at that shock that what he has become, she becomes scared. He tries to show her he hasn't changed but inadvertently she is killed or maybe killed by the Emperor when trying to find out where Luke and Leia are.
• Keep C3-PO and R2D2's memory wipe.





There's more but I wanted to keep it short.

#wheresrey Star Wars Force Awakens toys ignore PROTAGONIST REY

I've dealt with this in the Power Rangers fandom, that females are ignored or forgotten. In most merchandise like t-shirts, lunch boxes, book bags, etc., we only see the male rangers. In the movie Star Wars: Force Awakens, Rey is the protagonist but she is not seen on packaging nor in toy aisles for Star Wars. Yesterday I went to Wal-Mart, I went to the Star Wars section and saw no Rey figures. Some people believe the omission is because of the secrecy over the movie itself.  

People on Twitter have started #wheresrey, particularly parents wondering where Rey figures are for their daughters. Especially in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Battle Action Millennium Falcon and Target 6-pack set. The pack includes Finn, Chewy, Poe, Kylo Ren, an unknown Startrooper and unknown New Order pilot.

My friend who happens to be of Jamaican origin, he claims that sales of Finn figures are low and in the heyday, figures of Lando  Calrissian, the 'only black guy in the universe' was the least sold figure. I am not sure about that. Another friend of mine at work says he thinks there will be more merch soon after the secrecy.  He could be right because of the snippet below of the article below.

 "After news about the omission broke, Disney said that new Force Awakens merchandise will not leave out the film's main female character. Paul Southern, the senior vice president and head of licensing for Lucasfilm, said: 'In many stores and e-commerce destinations, products featuring Rey are selling as quickly as retailers can restock shelves." "Abrams said: 'Star Wars' was always a boy's thing, and a movie that dads could take their sons to. 'And although that is still very much the case, I was really hoping this could be a movie that mothers could take their daughters to as well.'

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/22/star-wars-merch-s-sexism-problem-wheresrey-highlights-dearth-in-female-toys.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3377010/Some-call-Star-Wars-sexist-realizing-toy-sets-don-t-include-female-character-Rey.html

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Quick Movie Review (Spoilers)

I am not going to take long as there are so many reviews. I saw the movie today to avoid crowds but there was still a crowd, at least there was seating. I wanted to like the movie and I did. I don't like that fans have been saying it is sinking to nostalgia. What else do they expect? With a Star Wars sequel, you are going to get nostalgia. One meme had Star Wars as "to close to the original, I hate it" and another with the New Ghostbusters "too different, I hate it." Anyways, "Forge of Ages" (how my grandnephew Jaiden refers to it) starts out with the narration that everyone is on the hunt for Luke Skywalker. Poe (played my friend's brother Oscar Isaac Hernandez who is Guatemalan-Cuban from Miami, FL where I live and my family is also from Guatemala) and BB-8 get a map from an old man and the First Order (the new bad guys) lay waste. Poe is taken prisoner and saved by Finn (John Boyega), a brainwashed Storm Trooper who decides to desert.

 BB-8 meets our heroine Rey (Daisy Riley). Now here comes the spoilers. They find the Millennium Falcon and run into Han and Chewy, become first friends and go to Yoda-esque Maz Kanata who makes Rey touch Luke's lightsaber, not confirming her parentage but having some connection. Apparently Luke tried making more Jedis and finding the first Jedi temple and his apprentice (who we assume is Han and Leia's son Ben--yes Ben, like Obi Wan) betrayed him. After we re-meet Leia, we are nailed over the head that whiny Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) (or how my dad calls him "Darth Vader") is their son. So Rey is a savant, she has lived in a desert but knows how to fix ships and use the Force.

My favorite Boba Fett-esque character is Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie), female commander of Finn and she doesn't get much to do here but supposedly will have more to do in Episode 8. So how does Abrahams do? I have been following him since "Felicity" and I liked a couple of his series, even Lost. He uses lens flares but they aren't as destracting. He does stay in long shots like Lucas. He changes from close ups to long shots, uses steady cam for fight scenes but stays still in regular scenes. CGI is used sparingly, mostly for big creatures. Greg Grunberg has been in almost all his projects and he is part of the Resistance along with his assistant and Ken Leung (from Lost). Simon Pegg of Star Trek cameos as an alien. And Oscar Issac's Ex Machina screen partner Domhall Gleeson plays sexy ginger General Hux. I am not crazy about Supreme Leader Snoke, his look and his overall "Emperor" vibe, I would've liked a smaller guy like Maz Kanata.

Anyway, as for the death, I approve, we all knew it was coming, it just didn't have the emotion and potency it needed. I think Ford did a good effort but didn't do 100 %. Also Driver seemed more like an angst-y teenager. Riley and Boyega did good efforts. I am not crazy that Boyega is British but did an African-American accent slang. Driver did a British-esque accent and Hernandez has his native a Miami-accent. Also, I like that you see females everywhere: in the Resistance, First Order, in bars and other places. Leia is not only the female in the Universe anymore. I agree some of the plot points are similar to "A New Hope" but they put them in different order, mood (death scene) and fresh takes.



Is Matt Groening becoming George Lucas?

Simpsons fans have like Matt Groening for years, but I am not sure what they think about him now though. But Star Wars fans hate George Lucas, as he changed ("digitally enhanced") the original movies not once but twice. I have been listening to the audio commentaries, which I love, of Seasons 3-6, 8 and 10 of the Simpsons and the latest ones Matt mentioned that fans are not happy with the newer episodes, saying that they suck and he says it is because the new ones are not going to match the old ones, in shock factor. Also to those who grew up with the show (like me), it won't be the same as they remember, which eerily echoes what George Lucas has said in defense of the prequel trilogy. Is this a pattern to famous fanboy franchises and their creators?

Star Wars: Clone Who Cares

For those who don't know this new Star Wars animated movie coming out was just an afterthought by George Lucas, it was supposed to be a TV Movie but Lucas liked it so much, he put it in the theaters. It is to start a TV series. But most fans and outside audience don't really care, who cares about what happened between the 2nd movie and the 3rd? Especially since we already had the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars animated series. The one unique thing about this movie is Asajj Ventress, one of the first star Wars villainesses. She first premiered in the Tartakovsky cartoon. She was originally to be the main villain but then Count Dooku was created. Her original name was Juno Eclipse but they didn't find that villainous enough.

In a TV Guide article about the movie, they mostly talked by Ahsoka Tano, Anakin's 'Padawan' but the funny thing is that she only got a small picture in the articles. She gets a small corner in the movie poster as well. The one true strong heronie was Princess Leia, while all the other women have been :::yawn::: So yeah, nice try, Lucas, we're bored.

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Robot Chicken Star Wars Review

Tonight Cartoon Network/Adult Swim ran a special about Star Wars-theme Robot Chicken, a half-hour long.

I thought it was going to mostly clips but in truth, it had a lot of new ones, sprinkled with old clips (Darth Vader spoiling everything for Luke, George W. Bush dreaming he is a Jedi). Some that are great are Yar-Yar Binks bugging Darth Vader, alien strip club, Death Star general telling the others to pretend Darth Vader strangles them, Boba Fett pretending he is fighting with Han Solo (when he was a trophy at Jaba the Hutt's place.) and then gets romantic, and background story on the guy in the Cantina that Obi-Wan cut his arm off in Episode 4. One part I really really love was with that worm monster that couldn't get the Millennium Falcon--another one comes about and it is hilarious, I love that they have British accents and I believe one of them is Seth Green. Some are hit or miss like Luke Skywalker and the Emperor doing a 'Your mama' battle or a scene with Luke when he blew up the Death Star and wants to call his uncles and realizes the facts. Also, George Lucas did a guest voice as himself.

Star Wars Rosie Float

On January 1st's annual Tournament of Roses parade, George Lucas has decided to make a Star Wars spectacular including a pair of floats inspired by the films and a 200-member marching unit from the 501st Legion, a 3,500-strong group of fans in authentic replica costumes who auditioned via videos. They will also be accompanied by songs from the movies. The floats will portray the forest moon of Endor from Return of the Jedi—complete with Ewoks swinging between trees—and the planet of Naboo from the prequel trilogy, featuring royal queens, Jedi protectors, handmaidens, and even operating waterfalls. They were designed to represent the theme of this year's parade, "Our Good Nature." I doubt this is what fans wanted. Lucas will also serve as Grand Marshal.

Check out this article on SCI FI wire.


Desde el primero de enero estrena el Torneo del desfile de las rosas y George Lucas ha decidido hacer espectaculares basada en su película Las Guerras Galacticas 501a, en para incluyendo un par de flotadores inspiradas por las películas y una unidad que marcha 200-miembros de la legiónun grupo de 3,500 fans en los trajes auténticos de la reproducción quien hiciendo audición por videos. También serán acompañados por canciones de las películas. Los flotadores retratarán la luna del bosque de Endor de El Regreso del Jedi-completo con Ewoks dando saltos por los arboles-y del planeta de Naboo de la nueva trilogía, ofreciendo a reinas reales, protectores de Jedi, handmaidens, e cascadas que en reliadad funcionan. Fueron diseñados para representar el tema del desfile relativo a este año, "Nuestra Naturaleza Buena." Dudo que esto es qué los 'fans' deseado. Lucas también servirá como mariscal funcionario.

Finally Justice, Double-Lightsaber justice

Trying to get more money out of us, George Lucas is re-releasing another set of the original Star Wars triology September 2006 but this time, it includes the original unaltered version! But as a bonus material. Atleast, it is something. I didn't bust out the money for the last set because I was so upset for many reasons, two being replacing the actor playing the emperor with the current one and replacing old Jedi ghost Anakian Skywalker with cute but evil Hayden Christensen.