Chat corner 158: Attack of the Clones

[annathecrow]

Welcome to the Monday chat corner! This week, it's time to talk about ***Episode II: Attack of the Clones***. Now that I'm thinking about it, it's interesting that there's such a big time skip between Episode I and Episode II. The Original Trilogy has time skips too, but they're very subtle, and the Sequels have nearly none. That makes me wonder... if you were to replot the Prequel Trilogy to eliminate this skip, how would you do this? What would you change, and how? Characters, settings, plot points...? (...I'm aware this sounds like a writing assignment but I swear I'd love to know, this is *crunchy*!)

Comments

[havocthecat]

I always kind of figured the timing of The Clone Wars was set when it was because it allowed them to give us Ahsoka, a new viewpoint child character (so amazing, I love her and I'm glad we got her), while still allowing us to see more of Anakin's growth from Anakin to Vader. I also love The Clone Wars because we got a lot more with Padme and Republic politics.

Though I can see why you wanted them to explore the growth of younger Anakin to older Anakin - there's a lot of ground there that could be explored!

[yourlibrarian]

I think the development we got for all the characters in Clone Wars was leagues better than the films and am also glad we have it. But there are also certain constraints. We have, for example, an awful lot of things packed into those few years and there's a limit to how far out they could go with it.