Origin of the Clone Wars?

Did a search and nothing came up but I was watching ANH the other day and when Obiwan is watching Leia's message she mentions that "years ago you served my father during the clone wars" in reference to Bail.

We know that George had a lot of the saga worked out in rough drafts and back stories back in the 70's whether we assume 6, 9, 12 movies so my question is, did GL originally have a different idea as to what the clone wars were? Are they close to what we have in the 3 year period between AOTC and ROTS or is it vastly different?

So in a nutshell, was George's vision of the Clone Wars in the mid-seventies different when he referenced it in ANH or pretty much what we have?

 

I think the general ideas may be similar, it is really impossible for anyone besides Lucas to answer this question. None of us really know what he was thinking.

-Seldon

 

I always thought, just in the context of the OT, that it was a nod to Roddenberrys' Star Trek in that the current state of the universe in that show was directly related to a war that altered society years before. Alot of science fiction is set X amount of years after a devastating war.

 

I'm surprised you ask this question without first seeing Episode III.

 

You didnt watch AOTC?

 

My only thing is that I thought the clone wars were going to last longer.

While 3 years it a long time for a war to go on, the way they talked about it, it seemed like it would last for a decade, if not more. I mean, the galaxy is a big place.

That was just my impression, anyway.

 

I think the idea that the Clone Wars weren't black and white, that there were good and bad guys on both sides and that some even had good reason to hate the Jedi, was something that Lucas had in mind from the beginning.
I just bought a comic magazine with a few Clone War stories in it, among them the Battle of Jabiim. It's amazing how well thought out it is. Alto Stratus, the Separatist sympathizer on Jabiim, hates everything about the Jedi and the Republic and even though he's portrayed as a bad guy, his feelings are perfectly understandable.
Even though this might not be evident from the movies(we'll see in May), I really believe that this is something that Lucas has thought about through the years.
Who knows? Maybe ROTS will show us that the Separatists aren't necessarily bad guys(except for some of the leaders). That they do suffer needlessly at the hands of the Republic. Might even be a turning point for the Jedi.



Clone Wars - oh yeah
/LM

 

Interesting ideas about the survivors of the clone wars were at times present in drafts of the films.

At one point, Lando was supposed to be a lone survivor from his clan of clones.

It's really hard to say. I never thought though that the Clone Wars saw the actual rise of the empire.

 

There were always survivors of the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan certainly survived them, and spoke about them.

The way some people speak of the "survivor of the Clone Wars", it sounds as though they're like those Japanese troops in WWII stuck in caves, not aware that the war was over. Or Jackson, winning that battle after the War of 1812 (or whenever) was over. It was Jackson, right?