In real life normal people trained to become solders often do switch from easy going, to determined killers when ordered, The Clones were trained from birth to be soldiers, regardless how you slice it that was a fucking asspull.
Karen Traviss wrote several tie in books to Filoni Wars, this is such a shame. I think this was a Lucas Recton similar to the Han shot first debacle, not wanting people to view the Clones as bad guys in his show.
I'm not really following your line of thought here. Was the asspull the chips or the conditioning to follow orders without hesitation or question?
Again, not that I disagree, but boy does that all sound more exciting than a "trade dispute" to hang the first movie on. To quote Jeff Goldblum: "Are there going to be any wars, in this star wars of yours?"
*shrug*
I think you're exaggerating the situation. TPM featured a small, regional war, AOTC ended with a larger war erupting, and ROTS had a galaxy-spanning dust-up with more ships, soldiers and battles onscreen than all of the previous films put together. Lucas seemingly wanted to show us the Stars before the Wars and before the Empire, though, and arguably just went a little bit too far with idyllic Naboo and innocent, pre-adolescent Anakin.
I honestly can't be sure your level of seriousness to determine my laughter routine.
Let me put it another way using a different plot point:
"We must train Anakin because a prophecy says so." Isn't tragic or hubris - it's plot railroading the characters.
"We must train Anakin because he's so naturally talented he's teaching himself some force tricks on his own and could be very dangerous and our way is the only way." THAT's getting closer to it.
I don't see that as a particularly useful comparison. The Prequel Jedi are
so deaf to the Will of the Living Force and so fixated on their bureaucratic position as Republic law-enforcement that when the nascent "Confederacy of Independent Systems" begins its attempt to violently secede from the Republic, the Jedi, through a mixture of hubris and desperation, mount an "Attack of the Clones" in response to the vast military forces that the Separatists have gathered, rather than questioning whether A: the conflict is a just one to become involved with in the first place, and B: whether this mysterious clone army is entirely trustworthy (answer: they
are, but they're trained/indoctrinated to obey the 150 special contingency orders without hesitation)
To get pathos, tragedy, hubris, etc you need to have the characters be able to choose a path to salvation, but unable to do so because of dogma, characters flaws, etc - something that could be overcome, but we know wouldn't.
Which is, again, basically the whole story of the Jedi getting sucked into the Clone Wars.
. Really episode 2 should have been about Obi-Wan investigating Sifo and Dooku missing shouldn't it? It is hilarious to think that if Nute Gunroy never demanded Padme to be killed, then Jango wouldn't have gone and left behind a clue to the planet with the ready-made military and Palpatine would have never gotten his war...
Considering that just about every major move Gunray makes in TPM is stage-managed by Palpatine, it's safe to conclude that so were the assassination attempts on Padme (especially considering, as you observed, that they left behind a trail of breadcrumbs that led directly to Kamino).
Not on screen, just in all the patchworking other writers had to do to get Lucas' vision to actually work.
No, it's there, you just have to pay attention.
Just take a minute a think about the original alias. It was going to be "Sido-Dyas." It's literally Darth "Sidious" pronounced with a thick accent. Replacing 1 letter led to a whole new character being created.
C'mon! I thought this was a board dedicated to savoring autism. That's some top quality there.
It's actually representative of one element of the Prequels that I genuinely hate: the tendency to lean more and more on (really, really weak) anagrams of real people or other things for character names (ex: Pablo Jill, Coleman Trebor,
Elan Sleazebaggano FFS!)
(It also, again, means the entire prequels have to run on prophecy - which is weak-ass shit.)
De gustibus non est disputandum.
The cancelled Battlefront III was also supposedly going to have an AU mission involving a fight with a Kenobi who fell to the Dark Side.
Not just Obi-Wan, seemingly, or rather, the devs plans for AU content didn't end with him. There's game concept art for alignment-swapped versions of most of the main characters.
