Favorite obscure Sequel/Prequel Rumors

Battlehymn Republic · Post by **Battlehymn Republic** » 2006-06-08 10:58pm

Which one of the rumors that preceded the release of the films did you like best?

I liked that supposedly Obi-Wan's name is actually "Obi-One", which hints at the Clone War or something like that.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2006-06-09 12:53pm

I liked that one too.

That Darth Vader was Luke's father but he wasn't Anakin. At some point the original Obi-Wan crashed and burned becoming Darth Vader while Anakin either died or took the Ben Kenobi alias and kept an eye on Luke.

Padme was still supposed to be the mother of the twins but the love triangle with Anakin and Obi-Wan was more real and turned nasty.

Or any one that actually had someone other than Anakin as Darth Vader. Anakin could have actually died and whoever was Darth Vader was really Luke/Leia's father.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-06-09 01:11pm

Tsyroc wrote:Padme was still supposed to be the mother of the twins but the love triangle with Anakin and Obi-Wan was more real and turned nasty.

That was originally part of the idea for ROTS (listen to Lucas on the ROTS DVD commentary).

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-06-09 03:24pm

Mange wrote:
Tsyroc wrote:Padme was still supposed to be the mother of the twins but the love triangle with Anakin and Obi-Wan was more real and turned nasty.
That was originally part of the idea for ROTS (listen to Lucas on the ROTS DVD commentary).

Is the commentary worth listening to, or is it just the Sound Guy talking about all the sounds he came up with, like in the other film commentary? (and if it's not the Sound Guy it's the Special Effects Guys) Does Lucas have more to say in the ROTS commentary?

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-06-09 04:58pm

Stofsk wrote:
Mange wrote:
Tsyroc wrote:Padme was still supposed to be the mother of the twins but the love triangle with Anakin and Obi-Wan was more real and turned nasty.
That was originally part of the idea for ROTS (listen to Lucas on the ROTS DVD commentary).
Is the commentary worth listening to, or is it just the Sound Guy talking about all the sounds he came up with, like in the other film commentary? (and if it's not the Sound Guy it's the Special Effects Guys) Does Lucas have more to say in the ROTS commentary?

The Sound Guy (Ben Burtt) isn't even in the commentary as he left Lucasfilm for Pixar right before ROTS opened in theaters. However, we hear all the more from the effects guys (Knoll, Coleman and Guyett) and others (e.g. McCallum) in scenes where more from Lucas would've been appreciated (e.g. the Mace vs. Palpatine duel).

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-06-09 05:31pm

I rather liked the idea of Jedi clones too. IIRC I read some article in... Cinescape or somewhere, pre-TPM, where it said that Lucasfilm had registered the names 'Obi-wan Bunji', 'Obi-wan somethingorother', and speculated that he was one of a line of clones. Would've been... interesting.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » 2006-06-09 06:48pm

Mange wrote:
Stofsk wrote:
Mange wrote: That was originally part of the idea for ROTS (listen to Lucas on the ROTS DVD commentary).
Is the commentary worth listening to, or is it just the Sound Guy talking about all the sounds he came up with, like in the other film commentary? (and if it's not the Sound Guy it's the Special Effects Guys) Does Lucas have more to say in the ROTS commentary?
The Sound Guy (Ben Burtt) isn't even in the commentary as he left Lucasfilm for Pixar right before ROTS opened in theaters. However, we hear all the more from the effects guys (Knoll, Coleman and Guyett) and others (e.g. McCallum) in scenes where more from Lucas would've been appreciated (e.g. the Mace vs. Palpatine duel).

That pissed me off soo much with the commentary track. They could have least split it into seperate technical and writing commentaries. I wanna know WHY they did this. Not how many tries it took to get this sound effect right.

Tychu · Post by **Tychu** » 2006-06-09 11:39pm

Darwin wrote:
Mange wrote:
Stofsk wrote: Is the commentary worth listening to, or is it just the Sound Guy talking about all the sounds he came up with, like in the other film commentary? (and if it's not the Sound Guy it's the Special Effects Guys) Does Lucas have more to say in the ROTS commentary?
The Sound Guy (Ben Burtt) isn't even in the commentary as he left Lucasfilm for Pixar right before ROTS opened in theaters. However, we hear all the more from the effects guys (Knoll, Coleman and Guyett) and others (e.g. McCallum) in scenes where more from Lucas would've been appreciated (e.g. the Mace vs. Palpatine duel).
That pissed me off soo much with the commentary track. They could have least split it into seperate technical and writing commentaries. I wanna know WHY they did this. Not how many tries it took to get this sound effect right.

I listened to all the other Star Wars commentaries and watched the ROTS one as well, it pissed me off. For more Earthly reasons however (politics)
Im a Republican and didnt much like the Republican bashing that ROTS had, especially since the other commentaries didnt even hint at real world politics. It could and should have been more Star Wars talk, not how Regan wanted more terms, like Palps had (The Republicans are the ones that started the 2 term limit to begin with anyway when they finally got FDR out of the casa bianca)