The Road to Star Wars, Part 1: Coming of Age

Continuing my trek through the early drafts of Star Wars available online, I've now re-read the "rough draft." In many ways, I think I find it the most interesting of those available. Now an actual script with names (although those now-familiar names were all up for disconcerting grabs in a revision of this first draft) and dialogue, it contains plenty of recognisable pieces (such as a sudden, unpleasant appearance in the field of view of "electrobinoculars" and watching a binary sunset), including some that seem to have inspired parts of the saga following Star Wars itself... but still in an intriguingly different arrangement. One change that's brought it closer to the Star Wars that we know, though, is that General Luke Skywalker has moved a little into the background, and the ten "boy rebels" have possibly been condensed into one youthful protagonist, Annikin Starkiller.
( 'May the force of others be with you all.' )