Keep in mind, your decision will ripple through the other two prequel movies, so choose wisely.
It would be best if you also extrapolated on how you expect your decision to affect episodes 2 and 3.
Do you:
1. Remove Jar-Jar?
2. Change Anakin from a whiny kid to a damaged 13 year old slave boy (thereby closely matching Padme's age)?
3. Allow Darth Maul to survive?
Choose your destiny.
From those three I would choose to allow Darth Maul to survive, such an iconic character deserved to continue a little longer.
I would add a different route here, I would reveal Jar Jar as the mythical Sith Lord of some wild fan theories, revealing the dork character as the main master mind even more powerful than Palpatine maybe, at least until Palpatine finds a way to kill it.
"Jar Jar Binks an Evil Sith Mastermind Theory"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezcP-Ys_voY
If I remember correctly Padme was supposed to be 14 in this movie and Anakin was 10.
The only plot point that doesn't affect the outcome of the movie is letting Maul live. Although in The Clone Wars cartoon he is still alive but has robot legs, which is cool as well. I am hoping to get robot legs sometime soon.
I would get rid of the droid army. I never thought the droid army look menacing in anyway shape or form. Instead they use a cloned army of Mandaloran shock troopers. They would be fierce warriors, and give the Jedi a good fight. Then the Republic would create their own clone army to fight back.
Now the name clone wars makes a lot more sense. You have to clone armies battling each other. With both armies secretly being controlled by the sith.
Yeah, I agree on the clone wars name. When I first heard it, I always imagined it as two or more opposing armies of clones battling each other.
shareI find it possible to choose between removing Jar-Jar, and taking our the goddamn Midichlorians! Certainly the latter would be easier, just change a couple of lines to the Jedi sensing he's startlingly strong with the Force, and nothing in subsequent films would be affected.
I'd also like to replace Jake Lloyd with someone at least slightly competent, and I want a million dollars and a pony.
I don't think it was the age difference that made Anakin and Padme's relationship awkward. It was George Lucas's writing and directing.
shareWell, I guess I could have put "Replace Lucas" as one of the options.
Or maybe at least give him a co-writer, and have someone else direct while he does the producing like he did on Empire and Jedi.
^major daddy issues^
share^butthurt baby^
share^Immature with low self-esteem^
share^Crybaby who won't respond to me anymore because he doesn't like losing arguments, and who lost so badly he started making call-out threads and calling me names.
At least he grew up and SHUT UP instead of continuing to make a fool of himself.
Troll.
Ah yes, the continuing to make a fool of himself defense.
Classic Spanners!
Why don't you mind your own business, or maybe go call someone a rapist, you sociopath.
shareReminding someone of information they've volunteered to strangers on the Internet isn't the same as calling someone something Spanners.
shareExcept you're not intelligent enough to distinguish between two vastly different things, STILL, even after I've proven to you how different they are.
You really are a true dulllard, aren't you? Wow. What a complete moron you are.
By the way, you might want to consider buying a personality, because the fake persona you put on has gotten really old.
"By the way, you might want to consider buying a personality, because the fake persona you put on has gotten really old."
Walking into the statutory rape jokes today Spanners aren't you? 😆
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Jar Jar is the worst thing about the movie, but Jesus Skywalker slave boy extraordinaire is the worst thing about canon.
I would present Anakin as the experienced pilot he was supposed to be when Obi Wan first meant him (when Obi Wan first meant Luke that his how he described Darth Vader). Anakin certainly was NOT a nine year old slave boy.
Anakin being a little kid was a bad premise from the get go.
I envisioned Anakin Skywalker to be more like J.J. Feild playing John Andre in Turn - a dashing Jedi Knight with great wit and charisma whose fall to the dark side of the Force was a tragedy.
But what does it matter; we found out that the Jedi are just a religious cult that steals little kids and brainwashes them into their order. They are the future school of Lord Voldemort. It is a sad tale.
Thanks a lot George.
That would have been a good idea!!!
shareRemove Jar Jar. The fan edit without Jar Jar isn't too bad.
Also, I think one major way to make the movie and trilogy in general better would be to have Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon switch roles in this movie. Qui-Gon is supposed to be the wise old Jedi but his plan hinges on rigging a bet, putting a kid in danger, and making promises he can't keep. That's reckless (a word an older Obi-Wan used to describe himself in the OT). Obi-Wan kept telling Qui-Gon he was making bad choices and ended up looking much wiser. By the end of the movie, Qui-Gon is dead and the burden of his actions fall on Obi-Won.
If they switched things around and maybe had Qui-Gon send Obi-Wan on a mission to get them off Tattoine in give him a lesson in patience, it would make for a better film. You have this young, reckless padawan getting in trouble, finding a random kid with Force powers, and making the bad decision of training him. At the end, Qui-Gon dies and Obi-Won is left, racked with guilt but trying his best to be the mentor Qui-Gon was. As he sees Anakin growing up and turning into Darth Vader, he is confronted with his actions as a young man and goes into hiding by the end of the trilogy.