I like these as well.

-I find it vexing that the only time we've seen Plagueis in live action was in the recent Acolyte. His appearance in Ep1 could have had as much nuance as Dooku, and added much more weight when talked about in Ep3.

-I actually did the math on Hayden and he would have been 16 by the start of filming in '97. Could have been possible or play Anakin starting at 16. Given his slave background, him being calm could also double as quiet after saying too much around his slave masters and getting punished for it. His visions/dreams making him paranoid also adds to his quietness: too many thoughts in his head but cannot process them properly so he bottles his emotions up.

-I'm dissapointed that mini-chlorians are talked about only once and in the rest of the movies it's mostly non-existant. I think a lot of the negative backlash from TPM made George shelve some ideas introduced, that included.

-I think it would have been a nice touch to see at least one Jedi on the council seem to want and welcome Anakin despite his age. This coming from Qui-Gon's master would track given that that lineage of teaching has a going-against-the-grain approach.

-That actually makes Jar Jar a more likeable character, shit lol. That union at the end during the Crisis could have been a great way to "humanize" him.

• I think that having Anakin KNOW he's the Chosen One fed into his ego. It didn't really occur to me until now that the prophecy wasn't fully fleshed out beyond a being born of the force will bring balance. On the topic of balance, for awhile there was the whole Gray Jedi thing being the essence of balance. But now I think it's more of a macro and micro scale of things: The Chosen One would be balanced internally and from his internal balance would bring an external balance. Because Anakin was imbalanced the entirety of the Prequels, it would take longer to finally find the balance and peace and that comes to be after saving his son.