SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2002
After reading many other speculations and ideas from sources all over the net, mostly in message boards, I was inspired to write my own synopsis of Episode III.
Based on the movies and the novel of the first movie - nothing in the rest of Expanded Universe has been considered - this is what I think will happen. It is based on my own ideas inspired by the movies and that one novelization.
This is pure guesswork.
MY VERSION OF EPISODE III
TerrianKing@aol.com
After Anakin and Padme marry they eventually go to Tattooine to live. They seek a quiet life with the help of Owen and Beru, who are probably married by then, themselves.
Since the Jedi of this time were not allowed emotional attachments, let alone marriage, Anakin would know he can't return to his life among the Jedi once his marriage is known. Three likely things I can think of might happen:
1) He and Padme try to keep the marriage a secret and they resume their lives until they are found out, and he is no longer allowed to be a Jedi. They go to Tattooine for peace and quiet.
2) They make no secret of their marriage and try to live as man and wife on Naboo and on Coruscant. She continues her career as a politician and he is allowed to remain a Jedi because of the war. When public pressure is too much to take, they elect to find solitude on Tattooine.
3) They go immediately to Tattooine knowing public interest will be hard to escape. (Jedi leaves order to marry a well-known and popular senator. Think Charles and Diana.)
I think 1 is most likely to happen because Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight somewhere along the way and I'm guessing it will be before his marriage to Padme is revealed.
NOTE: richtc73@yahoo.com pointed out a loose end I completely forgot about. As a child, Anakin has a dream where he grows up to become a Jedi and returns to Tattooine and frees the slaves. If it does come to pass, it will happen here when he is living on the planet again, and has time on his hands. During his brief visit to find his mother, he had other pressing matters to take care of. Being reminded of the conditions under which slaves exist and a little prodding from Padme, no doubt, Anakin might use this time to fulfill his dream.
The Clone Wars escalate, of course, and many Jedi are killed in the fighting, and eventually Obi Wan comes to Tattooine and persuades Anakin and Padme to resume a public life to help bring an end to the war. This would be in keeping with Obi Wan later telling Luke his Uncle Owen thought Anakin should have stayed on Tattooine and not gotten involved in Obi Wan's "damn fool, idealistic crusade."
Ever the peacemaker, Padme would want to help; and maybe because of his father/son relationship with Obi Wan, Anakin will be more than willing to reunite with him and help him. As much as he missed his mother when he left her, he probably misses the closest thing to a father he ever had, too. Owen would not be able to persuade him to stay out of the fight.
Anakin has already started down the path to the dark side, but in the beginning he will fight with the Jedi, and his closeness to Obi Wan is rekindled.
NOTE: Remember in ANH, for the rest of his life, Obi Wan misses and laments him. This is conveyed wonderfully in his voice and in his expression as he tells Luke his father was "a good friend." Alec Guinness deserved the Oscar nomination he got for his performance.
During this time Palpatine will declare himself Emperor. The Republic will be reeling from the long war and he'll likely step right into the opportunity he has arranged for himself and take complete power. Just as he arranged his own chancellorship. ;)
It's not likely he will reveal himself publicly as Darth Sidious right away. He needs Anakin at his side before this happens.
This action by Palpatine alarms certain factions in the Senate, notably the young senators Bail Organa and Mon Mothma, among others.
As he goes about preparing his empire, as Sidious, he'll concoct some reason to blame the Jedi for all that has happened, or arrange for something to happen to throw public suspicion on the Jedi, and mark them for later annihilation. Whatever it is, Anakin will begin to believe it, too, and it will begin to turn him against not only Obi Wan but all he has been taught as a Jedi, and all he has learned in his life. It will make the pieces of his life fall into place in a different way, and he will turn his back on all he has ever believed in, especially all his mother ever taught him.
Palpatine will no doubt be glad to see Anakin back from his self imposed exile on Tattooine, and he will have the power to separate Anakin from his wife and friends by arranging unnecessary things for them to do - sending the Jedi and Padme on a peacemaking mission somewhere, maybe, while keeping Anakin with him for one reason or another.
Sensing the changes happening in Anakin, the emperor will be able to get them out of the way easily to give him the opportunity to further influence the young man.
Diplomatic missions to Alderaan, and other planets would fit in here. A friendship between Padme and Obi Wan and Bail Organa would form, and they might have their first discussions about the suspicions many in the Senate have for why Palpatine found it necessary to become emperor and take so much direct control over the government.
The Jedi, and the population of the Republic, probably don't know, yet, Palpatine is the mastermind behind the dark side influence that is clouding their visions and they would still trust him; and Padme, the idealistic, pacifist senator from Palpatine's home world, who is a friend to the Jedi, would be willing to help find an end to the war in any way she can.
Worried about Anakin or not, they'll put their feelings aside and do their jobs. With them out of the way, Palpatine's influence on Anakin will be firm. I'm sure he'll be able arrange for Anakin to meet "Darth Sidious" and learn about the existence of the Sith. As Sidious, he will be able to coax Anakin into giving in to his anger, and by doing so, begin to create a great evil within him that is almost as powerful as his own. Anakin is the apprentice he wanted since Darth Maul died.
It will be almost a homecoming for Anakin. The power of the Dark Side will be what he has been searching for his entire life, but was unable to find because of the peaceful teachings of the Jedi. He'll find the dark side contains all he needs to accomplish things he never could before. He will then begin harboring a major secret: becoming a Sith apprentice.
I don't think he will know yet that Sidious is actually Palpatine. Like everyone else he will see the emperor's public and private faces as two separate people. Palpatine is a master of deception.
NOTE: Going by what we know from ANH, I'm going to predict this is when Anakin secretly takes the name Darth Vader. Like Dooku he keeps his affiliation with the Sith hidden and only in private communication with Sidious and Tyrannus does he use this name. This would explain why, in the OT, the apparition of Obi Wan tells Luke it was Vader he fought and knocked into a pit of lava and thus disfigured.
Padme, who seems to have the kind of strong presence in the force Leia has in the original trilogy, will probably have sensed the changes happening in her husband and, in order to prevent them, perhaps might have thought that starting a family would be the way to help him see life as he did before. Even away from him, she might be able to sense the changes happening more quickly, and if so she would seek out Obi Wan and tell him how worried she is for Anakin, explain what she feels happening and, probably, confirm Obi Wan's worst fears for him.
He would naturally want to help his former padawan, too.
Unfortunately for Anakin, his worst enemy is now the man he trusts the most: Palatine/Sidious. Believing the Jedi to be enemies of the Republic, he will by now secretly stand with Sidious and Tyrannus in total contempt of the Jedi.
NOTE: Interspersed throughout all of this will be glimpses of the war, and news of the losses being incurred. We will get glimpses of new planets in these periods.
Knowing that his mother's death was the catalyst that first opened Anakin to the dark side, it would be easy for Palpatine as Sidious to arrange for another attempt to be made on Padme's life. The Trade Federation, under his influence, would still want her dead and it would be simple for him to make them try to kill her again. I'm sure he would be careful to not let Anakin know of his connection to all the attempts on her life. Also, we know from ROTJ, that Palpatine will want her dead for another important reason.
This would be the assassination that seems to succeed. Perhaps she fakes her death in order to protect her unborn children, and then tries to get word to Anakin that she is safe, but hiding.
As with the death of Shmi, when he hears Padme is dead. Anakin would become enraged and go after the Trade Federation, wiping out anyone who stood in his way as he did the Sand People, and dropping deeper into the dark side. Score another point for Palpatine.
So, when Padme comes to Obi Wan, alive and well, and asks him to help her go to, or get word to Anakin, he would agree to help her try to save him before it is too late.
This might be what Obi Wan went to tell Anakin - Padme is alive but hiding because she is pregnant - but Anakin is 1) too grief stricken and full of hatred for the Jedi to listen to him, or
2) he's blaming himself and Obi Wan for not watching out for her, or
3) he thinks Obi Wan is trying to trick him to make him cast off the dark side, or
4) he has changed too much to care about anything but the incredible power he has achieved and he refuses to hear anything Obi Wan has to say.
Or all of the above. :)
Obi Wan will be shocked to realize Anakin has become a Sith apprentice. Anakin might even gloatingly reveals his new name, Darth Vader.
NOTE: And, of course, it is possible that, as many fans and fanfic writers have suggested, Palpatine might make Anakin believe there is a romance developing between Padme and Obi Wan, or that one actually does develop between them, and that turns Anakin against him, but I doubt it for one reason. When asked why there wasn't a romantic moment, a kiss or physical attraction, between Shmi and Qui Gon, who certainly made a good looking couple and inspired a lot of X-rated fan fiction, George Lucas' answer was short and sweet and to the point. "It's not that kind of movie."
Episode III is unlikely to be that kind of movie, either.
So, I think Anakin believes her to be dead, and won't listen to Obi Wan trying to tell him anything else. He simply shuts down that part of him that feels the pain of her loss and gives himself completely to the dark side.
This would be a great time for a rematch between Yoda and Dooku, wouldn't it? He and Obi Wan go to find Anakin and try to save him, to bring him back, and they both end up having climactic battles.
Yoda fights Dooku and wins this time because Dooku is unable to cheat by endangering the lives of others.
Perhaps this is when the Nemoidians meet their end. The volcano where Obi Wan and Anakin fight might be on the ruined home planet of the Nemoidians. Anakin in his anger has laid waste to their entire planet. Obi Wan and Anakin fight a battle neither wins. In spite of his ability to draw tremendous power from the dark side, he can't defeat Obi Wan. Of course, Obi Wan has the power of love for a son he desperately wants to save going for him, and maybe a tiny bit of that feeling still exists in Anakin and he simply can't bring himself to kill Obi Wan. Only TMRFIA knows.
Obi Wan sees Anakin Skywalker seem to disappear into a pit of lava. He is dead.
Obi Wan picks up Anakin's fallen lightsaber and walks away.
Yoda and Obi Wan return to tell Padme the terrible news. They are dispirited and weakened by their battles and the growing presence of the dark side. She can sense Anakin no more and believes them.
Watching in secret, Darth Sidious also sees Anakin Skywalker fall toward a pit of lava, but intervenes in time to save his life. Though horribly disfigured by the intense heat and weakened by his battle with Obi Wan, he still lives. Anakin Skywalker went into the fire; what comes out is almost pure evil.
Darth Vader is truly born.
Now how likely is it that Anakin could survive falling into a pit of lava, force or no force to help him?? Not likely at all. If he falls close to one and is only burned by the heat, he could survive until found by Palpatine or a minion of his. I'm guessing Palpatine knows what's going to happen and is present, or has someone present, to save Anakin from death, insuring his complete devotion to the Emperor by saving his life.
Obi Wan would be wounded, too, and though he escapes, we know that by ANH everyone assumes him to be dead, whether by age or by his wounds both physical and emotional, is unclear. Tarkin makes that comment when Vader says he senses his old master aboard the Death Star.
Going out on a limb here, I will be brave and predict that Padme's children are born on her home world of Naboo. She would naturally seek out her family after Anakin's death for comfort and to let them know she is alive, that her death was faked to protect her unborn children.
Sooner or later word would make it's way to Palpatine that Padme lives, and another attempt might be made to kill her. Perhaps by then she has gone to Tattooine to let the Lars' know she is alive and the mother of twins, and that, yes, Anakin Skywalker is dead.
NOTE: There have been many suggestions made that the emperor destroys Naboo and that is why no one has ever heard of it in the original trilogy. Maybe he kills Padme's family,
or maybe the whole human population of Naboo. (It would certainly tick me off to find out that after close to fifteen years of trying, I STILL haven't been able to kill the one woman who has been a major thorn in my side every single day of those 15 years! )
Destroying a planet should be no problem for him.
While on Tattooine, Obi Wan and Yoda come to tell her the tragic news from Naboo, whatever it is, and she understands someone will stop at nothing to see her dead. By now she and the Jedi will know it wasn't just the Trade Federation that wanted to kill her. Perhaps Yoda and Mace will finally start getting a few clues and begin to suspect the emperor.
There is nothing for Padme to do but go into deep hiding because the lives of her children are now at stake, as well as her own.
NOTE: I'm not going into details about the purge of the Jedi. It's been happening since the beginning of the Clone Wars in Episode II. I'm going to assume quite a few will be killed fighting against the Confederacy of Planets, which also leads me to assume the entire war is a ruse, an excuse to kill as many Jedi as possible while Palpatine consolidates his power.
They are distracted, their ranks are thinning, and I'm sure the Jedi are becoming alarmed over this. I can see Palpatine gleefully sending Jedi leaders to their doom one after another!
In ROTJ, Ben tells Luke, he and Leia were hidden because the emperor knew if Anakin had any offspring they would be a threat to him, the Emperor. Do I think he will know about the twins?
That's a tough one, but based on that statement, no. "If" is the operative word there. I think he just wants to kill Padme to make damn sure she can't suddenly reappear alive and kicking and show Anakin that Palpatine/Sidious has been lying to him all along. If he does destroy Naboo, as many think he will, Padme going into deep hiding will convince him he succeeded in finally killing her. If she happened to be pregnant - well, no more. :(
Two worlds devastated? This would be a pretty good reason for the Confederacy to surrender and stop fighting. The Clone Wars end and the many weakened planets ravaged by the war would be ripe for the Empire's picking. Not many would have the resources to fight anymore. The Clone Wars will have served two purposes - begin killing off the Jedi and leave the worlds of the Republic unable to stand against the Emperor's new plans.
According to a recent rumor, Anakin does not appear in the movie as Darth Vader until the last five minutes.
According to a recent rumor, there will be a major revelation in Episode III which will be on a par with Darth Vader telling Luke he is his father in TESB.
What could that revelation be?
This is another tough one.
There are so many possibilities. Consider this:
This might be when Palpatine reveals his Sith persona to the people of the Republic, and pronounces his empire the New Order. Some say this was an idea thought up by a young Governor Tarkin. That could well be, but I think it is the creation of Darth Sidious and it is implemented and put into place by Tarkin and other advisors like him whom Sidious gathers around himself to carry out his will. Tarkin may be the one most responsible for developing the New Order along the guidelines set forth by the Emperor.
This would also be when the black armor-clad Darth Vader, recently voted the best villain ever created on film, is revealed as the Emperor's right hand man. That would be so cool.
Imagine it!
Sidious removing the hood of his robe and revealing his true identity and then bringing forth what can only be seen as a walking nightmare, his servant/apprentice Darth Vader. If his entrance on the movie screen in ANH was unforgettable, this entrance should also be the same!
Now imagine the horror Obi Wan would feel to discover Anakin lives as the black souled Darth Vader. Imagine Padme's reaction when Obi Wan tells her she and the children are in greater danger than ever now, and why.
NOTE: I know this is not going to be as surprising a revelation to 99% of us, the viewers, as it will be to the characters of the movie. After all, we've all known Palpy is the emperor and Ani is Vader for over 20 years, but it will be surprising and shocking to the movie characters.
And the 1% of the young people in the real world who don't believe Palpy and Sidious are the same person.
Palpatine unleashes Vader to hunt down the remaining living Jedi, and men like Tarkin move into place to take control of the military.
The young senators and other legislators who suspected something darker was beneath Palpatine's rise to emperor begin their secret plans to find a way to stop him.
NOTE: I'm not going to try to guess where or how or by whom Mace Windu meets his fate. Nor am I going to speculate what happens to Jar Jar Binks. The only theory I can't agree with is that Mace is killed by Boba Fett. As good an idea as that is, Boba will likely still be a teenager at this time. Even with Jango's ship and his arsenal of weapons I don't think
he'll have the experience to go against Windu.
Maybe, Mace is the first of the Jedi Masters to be killed by Anakin as Lord Vader????
(Okay, so I lied. I will make a guess!)
Yoda and Obi Wan help Padme go into hiding. Little Luke is left with Owen and Beru on Tattooine with the specific instruction he is to be raised a Skywalker, and Padme and baby Leia are taken to Alderaan and the protection of Bail Organa, who obviously has become a trusted friend to them all. Obi Wan and Yoda discuss the future and both realize of the two children, Luke is the more likely to have inherited the force skills necessary to one day be a threat to the Emperor. Now that the source of the dark side presence is revealed, maybe they have a clear vision of the future. Whatever happens, Obi Wan goes back to Tattooine to be on hand should Luke be endangered in any way. The two of them hiding in plain sight, and therefore as good as invisible to the Sith.
NOTE: Remember, this is my fantasy you're reading here. I know as well as anyone that Obi Wan is going to bring baby Luke to Tattooine and ask the Lars' to raise him. That's almost a given, but I really think the child's mother should have more of a role in the matter. Saying good-bye to her son on Alderaan and not giving last minute instructions, like all parents do, to Beru just doesn't seem to be the kind of thing a mother would do.
This leads to a big loose end I'm not going to try very hard to tie up. I mean the one where Luke is given his father's lightsaber and is told his father wanted him to have it when he was old enough. The young man Obi Wan knew as Anakin would have expressed that sentiment had he known he had a son. Another of Ben's certain points of view???? A way to not spoil Luke's impression of his father being a good man? And, to incidentally, not let him know too soon Anakin and Vader were one and the same? Remember, later on Yoda is surprised that Vader told Luke he was his father. It complicated matters a great deal. Obi Wan wanting to give a memento of the boy he raised to his son could hardly say, "I got this after killing your father. Would you like to have it? It was his." Or words to that effect.
Oh well, we'll find out in a couple more years whether I'm close or completely off the mark.
NOTE: This is also my weak explanation of why, in ROTJ, Yoda answers Obi Wan's statement, "That boy is our only hope." with the comment, "No. There is another." A gentle way of telling him that Leia has more possibilities than originally thought? The exchange between them gives the impression that Obi Wan doesn't know about Leia, yet in a later scene he talks about her in a way that clearly indicates he did know she existed.
Will they show Padme's death? Or will we just have to take Leia's memories and what she was told about her mother as fact?
That's the toughest question of all.
I'm going to go even farther out on that limb and say no. The movie will end with Padme alive on Alderaan with her daughter. She will die off screen, probably of a broken heart, and Organa will proclaim Leia as his child and raise her as his heir.
NOTE: Man! Alderaanians must be very peaceful and trusting people indeed to buy that. Or Bail is a hugely popular leader and can get away with anything.
The alternative to this is the infant will be adopted by Organa and his wife, and Padme will disappear with Obi Wan's help. In which case, Leia's memories will be of the late Lady Organa and not truly of Padme.
See what I mean by tough? In that case we'll never know if Padme dies or not. So, I'm taking the easy way out and I am going to believe what Leia tells Luke in ROTJ. Heartbroken and sad, Padme dies when Leia is a small child.
It's hard to truly accept that ending, though, isn't it? I can't really see the strong-willed, tough as nails Padme just sitting down and dying like that. I understand true love can be something one never gets over and that is probably what happens here.
But you want to know what?
I prefer to think of Padme out there joining the opposition to the Empire and fighting the good fight with a hope in her heart she can stop the Emperor and one day bring Anakin back to the light. I'd rather think of her staying in the background and helping to bring the Rebel Alliance to the point where they were able to finally stand and fight. I'd like to think of her dying while fighting back than wasting away in exile. She had too much spirit for that kind of sorrowful death.
I guess what I'd really like to think is that after the Emperor died at Endor and Vader was redeemed by his children - remember he finally found the strength to kill the Emperor after both Luke and Leia were being threatened by Palpatine - Padme shuttles down from the ship she was commanding during the epic battle and tells her children how proud she is of them.
Yeah, yeah, sentimental but better than a "Somewhere in Time" sit down and die sappy ending.
There you have it. My contribution to the growing list of wild guesses, insights, hopes, demands and researched speculation about the plot of Episode III.
Having written all this, just watch me have to eat my words when Episode III comes out. I wonder if they'll taste better with salsa or French onion dip?
IN ADDITION. . .
March 2,2003
THE BIG REVELATION: Other Possibilities
Over the last month, my brother, James, and I have been having an interesting email exchange with several people trying to come up with good ideas of what the revelation might be. Out of all the ideas people have been suggested, one major idea, with three sub-possibilities, has been brought up the most.
Will the revelation concern Anakin's parentage? We are going to find out something that, rumor says, will be as surprising as the moment Vader reveals he is Luke's father.
Or will it be something else altogether? After all, another rumor says something catastrophic will happen that causes the SW universe to become the one we see in the original trilogy.
Let's take a look at Anakin's possible parentage first.
Up to this point all we have is Shmi Skywalker's comment to Qui Gon Jinn that Anakin had no father, in the physical sense, to tell us anything about Anakin's background. In our email discussions we narrowed this down to three possible areas that would explain this:
1) He is indeed the "Chosen One," a child conceived by the force itself upon a mortal woman.
2) He is a clone, an embryo implanted into a host mother and gestated naturally.
3) He is the child of parents unable to conceive who turned to a surrogate mother to carry him.
What can we surmise from these possibilities?
1) The Chosen One. This would indicate he is indeed a child of the mysterious "force" brought into existence to bring balance to itself in a way the force cannot accomplish on its own. Since it is an intangible thing, I guess that makes sense. Every so often the midichlorians must do this for a reason as yet unexplained or fathomed by those who are force sensitive. What if the Sith have figured out why this must be done? They would be ready and waiting for news of the chosen one and ready to find a way to use this individual for their own ends.
2) A Clone. It's possible. The question is: Whose clone is he? Palpatine's? Dooku's? Qui Gon's? If he is a clone of Palpatine that would go a long way to explain Anakin's devotion to the man throughout his lifetime, right up to the moment he realizes his son is more important to him than any power Palpatine has ever granted him.
3) Born of a Surrogate Mother. Who might the parents be? It has happened in reality; a surrogate mother develops a love for a child she carries even though she knows it has no biological ties to her at all. Then she fights to keep it.
Keep in mind that Shmi Skywalker was a slave. As such she could have been forced (no pun intended) into 2) and 3) situations against her will. There might have been nothing she could do to stop it. She decides to keep the child she bears and disappears among the people of her home world to hide.
Curiouser and curiouser, huh?
Possibility 1 has the hand of Sidious all over it. It makes me think Shmi Skywalker Lars was kidnaped for a specific reason, and that reason was to push the impressionable Anakin to the brink of the dark side. They took her and kept her alive instead of killing her outright for the purpose of forcing Anakin to return and rescue her, only to have her die in his arms.
It did the job. He let his anger and hatred guide him and discovered the power of the dark side. Even though he regretted his actions later, he knows ! The next time something angers or hurts him, he'll reach for that power much more readily than ever before and use it.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find the Dark Master was responsible for the kidnaping. He'll probably turn it around and blame it on the Jedi somehow. Maybe that helps drive the wedge between Anakin and the Jedi. Something makes him turn away and then slaughter them without remorse. Why not this? It could be that Sidious tells Anakin the Jedi arranged to have his mother taken out of the way so he could concentrate fully on his duties as a Jedi and stop worrying and thinking about her so much.
The flaw here is, why would Anakin believe this?
The fun thing about this is that once again Palpatine is foiled by Padme Naberrie. Ten years earlier she stood up to the Trade Federation and defeated them instead of listening to Palpatine and giving in to them. He could have started his New Order ten years ago if not for her!
I hope they show his reaction when he finds out she and Anakin have married!
Is it any wonder I don't want to see this woman die? Her refusal, as a fourteen year old queen, to be led around by the hand by Palpatine gave the citizens of the SW galaxy an extra ten years of freedom from the emperor's rule. He had to begin all over again getting his plan back into motion.
The down side is he discovered droids made a poor army. Even in overwhelming numbers they can still be defeated by finding a way to turn their power off! He also was able to find the chosen one and gain influence over him. Palpatine had to bide his time waiting for the clone army to be ready. (A secret army people will think was commissioned by the Jedi. Does that look like another nail in their coffin, or what?)
No wonder Syfo Dyas died soon after instructing the Kaminoans in building the army. He was the only witness who could reveal it was actually Dooku and Palpatine who asked him to arrange for the clones to be made.
Possibility 2 is within the realm of likelihood, but what are the chances that Palpatine could be the cell donor? With his power it would be easy to make Shmi forget the circumstances of her child's conception, then Palpatine could just sit back and wait for the Jedi to find him and train him while he plots behind the scenes to take him away. Of course, they didn't find him until he was ten years old, but that could be Palpy's doing, too - keeping him sheltered until his relationship with his mother was strong and not easy for him to forget.
Possibility 3 is not really a possibility at all as far as we are concerned, but others have pointed out it could have happened. We don't think so because Shmi was able to look beyond her life and see from the beginning that her son was destined for greater things if only the right circumstances presented themselves. This doesn't sound like a woman in hiding with a child to whom she has no biological connection. This is a woman who is willing to let her boy go and rise far above her station in life because she knows that's what has to be done, no matter how much she will miss him.
Could Palpatine turn out to be Anakin's biological father or his clone "father?" As much as we discussed this subject in email, we ended up having to agree that there were not enough facts, or clues to back up the idea and make us believe he could be.
If it turns out he is . . . well, we'll be just as surprised as anyone on opening day of Episode III.
Robert, Terrian King
Carrie, CMKerr
Richard, richtc73
Kyle, DZKManning
Jim, ByssBistro
and James, my brother
THE LATEST BIG RUMOR
There has come to our attention another big rumor that bears discussing. It's been reported that at a recent personal appearance made by Peter Mayhew, the actor who plays Chewbacca, he apparently answered a fan's persistent questions by revealing that Yes! Chewie does make an appearance in Episode III and that he rescues Luke and Leia and delivers them to Obi Wan. After saying that he refused to say another word.
Talk about dropping a bombshell!
This has stirred up quite a bit of talk, as you can imagine, across Star Wars discussion boards everywhere. I'm not quite sure what this means so I am calling a meeting of my fellow speculators and asking them to email me suggestions of how they think such a thing will affect the trilogies. If you have an idea hit the message board and let me know. Everyone gets credit for their suggestions.
More on this will be posted soon.
This is in no way an official postulation. This is just me writing down ideas off the top of my had, so don't go spreading this around as fact. It is not. And don't go claiming it as your own. I spent an afternoon typing this up and posting it, so if you share it with others at least let people know at whom they should be aiming their arrows and snide remarks.
I wouldn't mind hearing opinions.
If you have suggestions that are better than what I've written let me know. If it is a better idea I'll note it as a viable alternative to what I've written and give you credit for suggesting it.
I would especially like to hear other ideas of what the "major revelation" in the movie might be. Mine is pretty lame, but all the others I came up with were not worth considering.
I'm curious if anyone else will think of any of the ones I did and discarded.
In the meantime take it all with a sense of humor. :)
I do!
Got a better idea? Let me know at the message board.
