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If I were going to tighten it up, I'd make Anakin older in TPM--- early teens is still young enough to have some separation issues about his mother, especially given that he's leaving her in slavery, so playing up the "I'm scared for what will happen to my mother" angle would work there. (It would also allow an opportunity to highlight some of the issues with the old Republic/Jedi Order, and yes, that slash is there for the pun on them being in bed with each other--- issues like "the Republic can't do anything about slavery outside its borders which is fair but they still do business with worlds where slavery is legal" and "the Jedi Order seem to be more constrained by and concerned with the Republic and its politics than, say, with the will of the Force and maybe doing things like freeing slaves and fighting just wars like Qui-Gon seems to want to" which is where I go with the PT.) (And this is as good a place as any to mention that I love the PT for its impossibly Aaron-Sorkin-esque story ideas even though those are not plots that George Lucas should ever have tried to work with because he's not only not Aaron Sorkin, he doesn't want to be--- seriously, I remember reading some behind-the-scenes stuff for the PT back when it came out where he spoke disparagingly about "talking heads" movies", except that, oops, that's the kind of plot he gave himself for a lot of the PT, lol.)