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I've been really getting into the Star Wars prequels fanedits recently, L8WRTRs Shadow of the Sith and Kerr's Dark Force Rising are superb films that I find just as enjoyable as Adywan's A New Hope and the original Empire Strikes Back.
But what seems to be the most glaring absence (aside from definative edits of ATOTC and ROTJ) is the major role that force ghosts play in the Original Trilogy and their total absence in the Prequels. Personally I *really* dislike the tacked on Qui Gon subplot at the end of ROTS - it comes from nowhere and seems like a last minute addition more than anything - and I am glad that neither Kerr nor Stancpak's editions have included it. But when watching the entire series, this does leave a very big plot hole.
So, has anybody had any ideas of how to explain the force ghosts presence in the OT via edits in the PT? I guess the biggest problem is that if the jedi truly can transcend death, it creates even more plotholes in the PT. Why didn't Syfo Dias come back after his murder and tell the jedi what the hell was actually going on during Attack of the Clones. Couldn't Mace instantly warn the rest of the jedi. The fact that jedi don't truly 'die' - their soul remains on in a very instructional manner - could, potentially, completely change the way we percieve the PT. Their massacre certainly becomes a lot less moving, etc. Another possibility would be the heretical notion of altering the OT - which as Adywan has demonstrated, is less sacreligious than once considered - but the force ghosts are central to the entire trilogy.
Perhaps, with enough technical skill, a force ghost could be put into the PT. Reinsert a character by pasting from a previous scene... i dont know, it all sounds very implausible. Any ideas?
But what seems to be the most glaring absence (aside from definative edits of ATOTC and ROTJ) is the major role that force ghosts play in the Original Trilogy and their total absence in the Prequels. Personally I *really* dislike the tacked on Qui Gon subplot at the end of ROTS - it comes from nowhere and seems like a last minute addition more than anything - and I am glad that neither Kerr nor Stancpak's editions have included it. But when watching the entire series, this does leave a very big plot hole.
So, has anybody had any ideas of how to explain the force ghosts presence in the OT via edits in the PT? I guess the biggest problem is that if the jedi truly can transcend death, it creates even more plotholes in the PT. Why didn't Syfo Dias come back after his murder and tell the jedi what the hell was actually going on during Attack of the Clones. Couldn't Mace instantly warn the rest of the jedi. The fact that jedi don't truly 'die' - their soul remains on in a very instructional manner - could, potentially, completely change the way we percieve the PT. Their massacre certainly becomes a lot less moving, etc. Another possibility would be the heretical notion of altering the OT - which as Adywan has demonstrated, is less sacreligious than once considered - but the force ghosts are central to the entire trilogy.
Perhaps, with enough technical skill, a force ghost could be put into the PT. Reinsert a character by pasting from a previous scene... i dont know, it all sounds very implausible. Any ideas?