Hmm, interesting. I do think this would have made for a more interesting narrative and explained Anakin’s character and motivations more clearly. Do you have a theory on why Lucas didn’t pursue this line of narrative? I know my children would find it problematic that Obi-wan could become romantically involved with someone he initially me…
Hmm, interesting. I do think this would have made for a more interesting narrative and explained Anakin’s character and motivations more clearly. Do you have a theory on why Lucas didn’t pursue this line of narrative? I know my children would find it problematic that Obi-wan could become romantically involved with someone he initially met when he was an adult and they were a child - but they are not Star Wars fans in any case and weren’t even alive when the prequels came out.
I have no idea why, but I'm not sure the public would've turned on the detail you're describing. There's a ten-year gap and they have no real scenes together in the first film. By the second film, it's almost as if they're properly meeting for the first time. Today, I think there would be a hindsight cringe, but realistically, we're talking 2002. Obi-Wan could've made a crack about the fourteen-year-old queen's future hotness and very few people would've spoken up about it. I just watched a raft of action films from the 90s, huge hits, and they were...more than concerning. And in all cases, I've never heard a peep about them even in retrospect. It's a strange world we live in. But getting back to your question, maybe Lucas ultimately felt the same way you do? He also abandoned Jar-Jar Binks as a character, so there was a lot of reworking of the general story after PHANTOM MENACE. Another reason for all these changes might also be how maligned the first film was, critically speaking I mean. Maybe he got in his own head...
I'll add there's another exchange going on here (see JB Minton's comment and follow-ups) that is getting into some interesting emotional landscape and "stakes" territory.
Hmm, interesting. I do think this would have made for a more interesting narrative and explained Anakin’s character and motivations more clearly. Do you have a theory on why Lucas didn’t pursue this line of narrative? I know my children would find it problematic that Obi-wan could become romantically involved with someone he initially met when he was an adult and they were a child - but they are not Star Wars fans in any case and weren’t even alive when the prequels came out.
I have no idea why, but I'm not sure the public would've turned on the detail you're describing. There's a ten-year gap and they have no real scenes together in the first film. By the second film, it's almost as if they're properly meeting for the first time. Today, I think there would be a hindsight cringe, but realistically, we're talking 2002. Obi-Wan could've made a crack about the fourteen-year-old queen's future hotness and very few people would've spoken up about it. I just watched a raft of action films from the 90s, huge hits, and they were...more than concerning. And in all cases, I've never heard a peep about them even in retrospect. It's a strange world we live in. But getting back to your question, maybe Lucas ultimately felt the same way you do? He also abandoned Jar-Jar Binks as a character, so there was a lot of reworking of the general story after PHANTOM MENACE. Another reason for all these changes might also be how maligned the first film was, critically speaking I mean. Maybe he got in his own head...
I'll add there's another exchange going on here (see JB Minton's comment and follow-ups) that is getting into some interesting emotional landscape and "stakes" territory.