Originally posted by Phucked UpI see that. I only read a few of the books, but they did make the jedi's out to be something they weren't. Too much power, not as much mystery behind that power. And Lucas couldn't really change that now that it was done.
I feel it's more because of the Expanded Universe that shaped the Star Wars prequels. The book writers had creative freedom to give the Jedi more powers and make them much faster and more stylized than George Lucas originally intended them to be. So when he went to make the prequels he had this fan base built up of people who loved the uber force powers that were in the books/comics/video games. He took his own work and let others define how it works.I would have been more than happy to see the Clone Wars play out as the Jedi being generals with blasters and only relying on the lightsaber for close contact fighting. And I always thought the Jedi should have been fighting against a clone army, not fighting with them.
And don't get me started on the droid army...never should have been done that way. Should have just been an uprising of sorts by a planet or something, no droids.
The idea of Jedi's being generals with blasters is a really good idea, I'd never thought of that, but I think that would have worked a lot better. When Kenobi mentions the 'Clone Wars' I always imagined the Jedi's fighting a Clone army as well, since the Republic should have had it's own complete army from the start. They never explain why the Republic didn't, though, because it'd seem a lot 'cooler' to make them have a huge group of super soldiers than actually think up a better idea.
And I agree, I hate the droids. There's no actual real combat because of that. The Clones might as well be droids, they're all processed. It's like neither side actually has to worry about casualities or anything.