• Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Count Dooku is erased from the star wars prequels and is replaced by Liam neesons qui-gon jinn (who doesn't die in ep1).

    Episode 1: plays out.....well...I'd do a couple things differently but given the nature of the question let's assume it stays mostly the same. Qui-gon at the end of the movie, in an act of defiance, abdicates his title of Jedi master and says the Jedi can either take Anakin in....or he'll train him as an apostate.

    The council begrudgingly concedes his victory and obiwan takes him under his tutelage throwing a wedge between them.

    Episode 2: ex Jedi qui-gon is leading the separatists against the Republic. We now have an established relationship between obi and jinn that changes the interrogation scene and it hits a bit different when qui gon tells obi the Republic is under the control of the sith (which btw is actually true in either version of this story).

    Episode 3: unlike dooku Qui-gon lives until almost the end of the movie. Similar to how it plays out in Canon palpatine reveals himself to Anakin who relays this to the council. The council, playing catch-up, finally realizes they've been had and that qui-gon has been right all along. The sith are in control, and the Republic is already the empire in all but name...and they switch sides.

    Caught in between all this is Anakin, who like a true lib decides to side with what is by all rights the legitimately elected government of the Republic snd as his major transition to Darth Vader kills the leader of what at this point now realize is the precursor to the rebel alliance.