Review Followup: A "Fake Episode III" "Fanscript"...

Even after completing my latest review for Saga Journal, I kept thinking about one loose end probably more personal than anything. I had mentioned that the "Fan Corner" section of "The Jedi Bendu Script Page" had "two 'Episode III' treatments of differing age and length but which both seem composed of equal amounts of pure, uninformed speculation." One of them, I admit here, I had already seen before; in fact, I had collaborated on a MSTing of it and an equally speculative article by the same person also on the Jedi Bendu page. As for the other, newer "Episode III" script, though, I glanced at just enough of it to convince myself it indeed had no particular "inside" connection to Revenge of the Sith and that was that. However, for some reason the curiosity that had been a part of my joining in on the "Fall of the Republic" MSTing (along with a determination that at least one person working on it wouldn't be intent on using it to revenge himself on Star Wars as it really was) left me wondering about the other script and whether it was somehow fair to have taken such a token look at it. The only problem was that I wasn't quite sure I'd like the experience... and a part of that was worrying about certain events that "everyone knew would be this way..."

Then, one day, I started managed to just start reading, and "The Republic Falls" actually didn't trouble me; it didn't feel like it had been churned out by someone trying to "make up for The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones" in the process, and it seemed to have sympathy for all the characters in its own way. However, it also safely avoided that really outside fear of mine, that I might somehow end up preferring it... In fact, I was left with a renewed awareness of the things perhaps even surprising about Revenge of the Sith that had seemed impressive and right to me on the very first encounter.
( 'It's like...something out of a dream, or, I don't know. Maybe I'm just going crazy.' )