Oh, this is delicious.
If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels. As we now know, the rebel Alliance was founded by Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bail Organa. What can readily be deduced is that their first recruit, who soon became their top field agent, was R2-D2.
And from there the author, Keith Martin, is off and running, spinning the entire “A New Hope” (and elements of the following movies) into a vast conspiracy that … actually makes sense.
And in a related bonus, the trailers for Star Wars III, V (alt), V.
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Basically along the lines of how I was thinking for R2D2, but I like the Chewy bit too.
Very well done. 🙂
To bad Lucus wasn’t thinking along those lines.
Well, that assumes that George was actually thinking that far ahead. Which (esp. for the first film) was incredibly unlikely. 😛
Somewhere I seem to recall that Lucas claims to have written the basic idea for episodes IV, V, and VI before filming them at all. If you believe this story, he wrote his script and later realized that it was too big for one movie, so he cut it into three movies. The one thing I don’t know is whether this claim is intended to include Episodes I, II, and III. It’s possible that he thought of some of that as backstory for Episodes IV, V, and VI, but it seems unlikely to have included that level of detail, and since he reportedly thinks of it all as a kind of throwback to the Flash-Gordon serials, I doubt he would have thought of anything so convoluted as the story in the web page you pointed to.
All that being said, I love the story in the web page. It makes sense of a couple of things that I have wondered about (e.g. Obi Wan Kenobi’s apparent lack of recognition of R2D2 in Episode IV and why C3P0 was wiped but R2D2 was not). On the other hand, it makes Obi Wan Kenobi into a much more devious and conniving character than I had ever considered him to be. That might make him more interesting, but you’d think there should be some indication of this in the movies.
Thanks for another great link!
Well, there’s the whole lying to Luke about his father thing.
Actually, I’m pretty convinced that, in this scenario, Bail Organa was the real brains of the rebellion, since both OWK and Yoda demonstrated themselves to be thick as rocks during the first trilogy. Maybe that means as well that OWK’s headache and concern over the destruction of Alderaan is also an “Oh, shit, whaddawedonow?” moment,
Yes, I recall the stories that Lucas had a general backstory and the overall plots of III-V planned out (though, like you, I doubt he had trade guild taxation policies in mind). I don’t think he had much more than the broad basics, though, given some of the details that he either outlined or allowed to be inserted into the original “Star Wars” novelization (ghost written by Alan Dean Foster).