In between trying to get things sorted out in my personal affairs, I went on a minor Star Wars kick recently. And, once again, I considering the story of the original trilogy in contrast to that of the prequil trilogy. I certainly do not crawl through the fiction as some people here do, but I do enjoy reading the short notes about it. In which, one of the most interesting topics has always been what the implied backstory of the OT was originally intended to be... before it ended up being something we probably try to forget...
This groovy blog:
http://stealingcommas.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-prequels-as-they-were-described-in.html does a fantastic job of going through many plot elements that were just lost or otherwise spat upon in making the new films. I will admit that there is perhaps some merit to the story content of the prequils, but it it lost through... goodness knows what's bad in too many places to count. And, these meritorious elements are generally always conceptual rather than physical/actual (hopefully that makes sense); the problem again is just bad execution, which makes everything suck. It's quite a shame, and has been apparent to most everybody for years.
Any thoughts - Perhaps we ought to have a retcon thread of our own here?
