Thank you, Dorkman, for posting these (again).

I know others get sick of debating, rehashing or fixing the prequels but I never tire of it.

I can see your point (and there's an argument to be made that it's still more Jedi-centric than it probably ought to be), though I do think it's worth pointing out that in both cases it's Anakin, and the fact he's too powerful for his own good -- especially when he's giving in to the dark side -- is a major element of the plot.

Cool. Episode 1 needs Padme, tho. That makes the romance more gradual and provides 1 with a decent female role.

A fair amount of it, because in many cases you can chart a line between original trilogy materials and the EU. The authors that have played in George's backyard, so to speak, are nearly always running on the same assumptions that everyone else had about the backstory. They've seen the same movies, read the same novelisations, and tracked down the same earlier drafts of the scripts.

Part of what made the PT a disappointing experience is that Lucas decided to chuck almost everything out, and in its place introduced story elements that weren't fully reasoned; it's why we have such a disjointed saga.

I think once you divorce Mike's story fom the Star Wars universe, especially if he intends to reframe it as fantasy instead of sci fi, other changes will follow organically. Obviously, Mike is free to base his empire on ancient Rome, but he's best off staying away from the SWEU otherwise.

And if it's fantasy, the sabers can be metal instead of plasma. Or the wizards can wield magic right out of their hands or something. Just don't use wands, obviously.

I'm completely astounded as to just how good these are.  It's not that I'm surprised that you can come up with stuff this good, Michael, it's just that it's amazing that you produced this on your own with no pay or giant studio behind you and yet what we ended up getting, which should have been amazing with all of the resources at Lucas's disposal, was crap.  But even with all things being equal, really well done, man.

I don't remember where this came from, but it seemed like way back when ESB came out, there was a rumor that the reason Dagobah was a swamp was because of an epic Force battle between Yoda and some dark Force weilder or other in the culling of the Jedi, and the cave that was strong with the Dark Side was perhaps where Yoda finally defeated and killed him.  Further, the reason Yoda lived on Dagobah was because the immensity of the Dark Side of the Force that remained masked his presence on the planet from Palpatine, who otherwise would be able to sense such a strong Force user.  No idea where I read that or otherwise came across it, but I seem to remember that was the theory behind the question as to why Yoda stayed on Dagobah and why Darth Vader never knew he was still alive.  Anyone else got a line on that or where that might have come from?  At any rate, it'd be neat to incorporate some sort of exploration into the reason for Yoda's situation in ESB into these rewrites.

But once again, really really well done.

I remember reading about his defeating a dark Jedi on Dagobah too. It was the "explanation" for why the Dark Side cave existed.

In my prequels you never see Yoda, just hear of him by reputation. Another surprise I would want to preserve for ESB.

Thanks for the compliments everyone!