if padmes PREGNANT in EPIII, it wont be a surprise. and we have no reason to beleive that GL will show luke taken to dagobah, thats entirely speculation, and theres no need to show obiwan taking him to tatooine at the end of EPIII. theres simply no reason to show it. Based solely on what we know from the OT, we know exactly what happens. At the beginning of ANH, we will see luke and realize hes padme and anakins kid. Well wonder how he got to tatooine and well find out later on in the movies. Theres no reason to show any of it.
Sort of related, but I heard Lucas was going to end Ep III with the original opening of ANH - the bit with Luke and his friends around Ankorhead, and Biggs leaving and so on.
I know time dilation isn't a device that Lucas has used before in Star Wars, but a segue from a dying Anakin to a youthful Luke would be kind of cool. More likely to stick the cut senes on the ANH DVD, though, if you ask me.
The reason I mention it is that it's a rumour I've come across several times and - if it's true - it means Lucas is planning on leaving no doubt about Luke's parentage.
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I agree with Yess that it is possible, and it its also how i would personally like to see the films, as one big movie where we dont know anakin is darth vader. At the same time, It could all be a matter of us knowing something the hero (luke) doesnt and simply watching him find out in ESB. That is a classic storytelling method.
Aside from that, I wonder how GL could do EPIII without giving away that anakin is vader. the movie, itself, would be fine. But would we wonder then, why the focus of EPIV shifted to Luke, and not his father, Anakin. (We will obviously know anakin is lukes father, just not that anakin=vader)
And also, these movies are supposedly about Anakin skywalker and his redemption through his son. That theme loses ALOT of its power if right in the middle of the saga (EPIV and most of EPV) we dont know that Vader is Anakin and Lukes father. I suppose it could be done if we simply thought Anakin had died in the molten pit, AFTER he had already done horrendous things. Then Lukes actions in ANH and ESB could be seen as redeeming what his father did. Still, although i would LOVE to see GL do EPIII so that we dont know Anakin=Vader, I honestly don't think he will do it that way.
the crystal? I was asking if you were talking about the crystal from the book, "splinter of the minds eye." Its the first EU book and was written in the 80s, and takes place b/w EPIV AND EPV. I really dont think the quest in EPIII has to do with a crystal. It seems too late in the saga to create some comepletely new aspect to the star wars universe. On top of that, I think the idea of a powerful force crystal is just a little to mystical for GL.
I took the Crystal thing because it was in the first 2-3 drafts of ANH, and I belief that in the 4th draft it was in Vaders lightsabre...
It's, I think, the most repeated thing in the drafts that hadn't made it in the movie.
And you know that GL likes to recycle stuff ... (take Mace Windu as an example)