Plot Pondering

Not that long after watching Revenge of the Sith and getting halfway through the Star Wars movies, I was pleased to hear my copy of Paul F. McDonald's The Star Wars Heresies had shipped weeks ahead of when I'd been expecting it. Before I got around to McDonald's analysis of the half of the saga I'd just watched, though, I did want to try and set down certain of my own (if less deeply delving) contemplations, ones I'd perhaps been anticipating dealing with anew.
( There are times when a 'heresy' of my own... )