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PT Prequel Alternate History

Discussion in 'Prequel Trilogy' started by redlightning, Oct 4, 2015.

  1. Jcuk

    Jcuk Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    What if Shmi never got kidnapped, and lived out her days peacefully sitting on an ol' rocking chair reminiscing about her 'brutal' slave days under Watto? Getting on Clieggs nerves with her incessant pining for Anakin..oh whatever lol
     
  2. Iron_lord

    Iron_lord Chosen One star 10

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    It was pretty much the first piece of "TCW media" I experienced - long before watching the cartoons or reading the comic books.

    I thought it was pretty well done actually - it's one of the few works where Bail Organa is a primary character rather than a minor one - most of the book is one adventure with him and Obi-Wan. The beginning of the book deals with the aftermath of Geonosis, but it fairly quickly moves on a few months to the TCW era.
     
  3. Lady_Skywalker87

    Lady_Skywalker87 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Sound like a good read indeed Iron_lord! I'm also interested in the Miller novels is because from what I've read, it seems to focus on P/A like nothing before them or after them for that matter.
     
  4. Iron_lord

    Iron_lord Chosen One star 10

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    That's probably a fairly accurate description. The Anakin/Obi-Wan dynamic is also pretty heavily focused on, especially in the last two.
     
  5. Lady_Skywalker87

    Lady_Skywalker87 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Well I haven't been lucky to find them yet...and it will be some time before my book hunt restarts again.[face_sigh]
     
  6. Alexrd

    Alexrd Chosen One star 6

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    She knows what happens to Anakin if they find out, that's why she keeps it a secret. Doesn't mean she has problems with their rules or that she doesn't see the logic behind them.
     
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  7. Admiral Volshe

    Admiral Volshe Chosen One star 10

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    Well if she agreed with the rules and the reasoning behind them completely, she wouldn't have let him break them.
     
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  8. Alexrd

    Alexrd Chosen One star 6

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    She tried to talk him out of it. Besides, are you saying that she controls Anakin and is to blame for his own choices?
     
  9. Bazinga'd

    Bazinga'd Saga / WNU Manager - Knights of LAJ star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    Have you ever been married? The other spouse (gender neutral) has a large role in the decisions of the other.

    Edit: Which is interesting if you consider one theme of the saga to be "free will". Do relationships, whether it be marriage, friendship, or affiliation with an oprganization (i.e., the Jedi Order) impacts ones ability for free choice.
     
  10. Admiral Volshe

    Admiral Volshe Chosen One star 10

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    She didn't really try that hard. She didn't have to go through with anything, but in the end, she did. She has her own free will and she chose against the Jedi Council's rules - and we know that she is perfectly aware of them.
     
  11. Alexrd

    Alexrd Chosen One star 6

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    She's not bound by the Jedi rules, Anakin is. And Anakin made his choice way before she did. She accepted it when they were about to die.
     
  12. Admiral Volshe

    Admiral Volshe Chosen One star 10

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    I'm not talking about Anakin. I already knew he didn't approve of the rules.

    She didn't die, so she could have distanced herself. She chose not to. She may not control Anakin but she knew exactly what he would have to do. She could have chosen to not allow him to go forth. She didn't have to say yes.
     
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  13. lGrandeAnhoop

    lGrandeAnhoop Jedi Youngling star 1

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    If Padme survived, nothing would've changed ;)
     
  14. ewoksimon

    ewoksimon Chosen One star 5

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    I've always wondered what would have happened to Anakin had Qui-Gon, Amidala and company not made a pit stop on Tatooine. Would Anakin's Force powers remain mostly submerged, or would he have grown more powerful with age even without Jedi training? Would the Sith have eventually felt his presence and sought him out themselves?
     
  15. Iron_lord

    Iron_lord Chosen One star 10

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    Labyrinth of Evil had Anakin speculating on it - thinking that he'd have eventually become a podracing galactic champion, bought his freedom, and so on.


    Maybe Qui-Gon should have left you at Watto's junk shop.
    Obi-Wan's little joke. But the words had stung, for some reason. Probably because of Anakin's own musings about what might have become of him had the Jedi not been forced to land on Tatooine to find a replacement part for Padme Amidala's starship. It wasn't hard to imagine himself stuck in Mos Espa. With his mom, Shmi; with C-3PO, without the bright shell he now wore--
    No.
    At nine years of age, he had been an expert Podracer; by twenty-one, he would have been a galactic champion. With or without Qui-Gon Jinn's or Watto's help, he would eventually have won the Boonta Eve race, and his reputation would have been made. He would have bought freedom for himself, his mother, all the slaves in Mos Espa, gone on to win the Grand Races on Malastare, been hailed in the gambling casinos on Ord Mantell and Coruscant. He wouldn't have become a Jedi--he would have been too old to train--would never have learned to wield a lightsaber. But he would have been able to fly rings around the finest of Jedi pilots, including Saesee Tiin.
    And he still would have been stronger in the Force than any of them.
     
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  16. darklordoftech

    darklordoftech Force Ghost star 6

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    What if Anakin didn't tell Mace that Palpatine is the Sith Lord?
     
  17. Tackelberry

    Tackelberry Jedi Knight star 3

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    Let's say Anakin kills Sheev during the showdown with Windu. The Jedi would have betrayed the Republic. From the public's point of view, killing someone because they are Sith and you are Jedi is the equivalent of killing a Muslim because you're Christian. The Jedi order would have to hide in the outer rim, probably on Dantooine or something. The Republic would want another war against the Jedi, since they're hyped off just winning the Clone Wars. Though, without access to Sheev's plans, they can't force the clones to kill the Jedi. The clones of course would refuse. Eventually it becomes a moot point and the Jedi are soon forgotten, much like they were with the Empire.

    Since he fulfilled his prphecy, Anakin would leave the order, but still stay in touch with the Jedi in case they need him. Probably have the twins on Naboo and live life peacefully. Bail Organa would probably be the next chancellor, as everyone seemed to like him in TCW.
     
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  18. Mace Windu's Cousin

    Mace Windu's Cousin Jedi Knight star 1

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    What if Mace Windu had agreed to Anakin's terms of arresting Sidious, but told Anakin that he was going to take his arms because he was too dangerous. What would of happened ?
     
  19. TCF-1138

    TCF-1138 Anthology/Fan Films/NSA Mod & Ewok Enthusiast star 6 Staff Member Manager

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    Here is a thread dedicated for such questions - welcome to the forum! :)
     
  20. Mace Windu's Cousin

    Mace Windu's Cousin Jedi Knight star 1

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    What if Mace Windu had agreed to Anakin's terms of arresting Sidious, but told Anakin that he was going to take his arms because he was too dangerous. What would of happened ?​

     
  21. Darkslayer

    Darkslayer #1 Sabine Wren Fan star 7

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    We wouldn't have had Mace's hilariously awesome reaction.
     
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  22. DjangoKet

    DjangoKet Jedi Knight star 1

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    What if Obi Wan had killed Anakin on Mustafar? How much weaker would the Empire have been without Vader as an Enforcer. Who would Sidious have turned to as his new apprentice given that he had most force sensitives killed. Would he have identified a new apprentice using the holochron from TCW and trained them from birth?
     
  23. Kenneth Morgan

    Kenneth Morgan Chosen One star 5

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    What if, instead of going to Naboo, Ani arranged for he, Padme and Artoo to go directly to Tatooine to check on his mother? Would he have been in time to bring her back alive? How would this have affected his feelings of anger and resentment?
     
  24. PHIERY

    PHIERY Jedi Master star 2

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    Then Mace would never have rounded up the posse, and Mace and his posse (while trying to be heroes) would never have been defeated and killed by Sidious. Thus enabling Anakin to possibly fulfill the prophesy much sooner.
     
  25. d_arblay

    d_arblay Jedi Master star 4

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    It is a great reaction :)
     
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