By the time the MSTing started, I don't think it was really supposed to be of the "famous" "Fall of the Republic." Still, it may have affected me in one small way: I tended to think that Episode III's title would be some variant of "Fall of the Republic," so that Revenge of the Sith surprised me at the same time as I recognised the obvious wink back to Return of the Jedi's history.
One other assumption that I might have shared with John L. Flynn was to draw on the novelisation and think that Anakin wouldn't have known his wife was pregnant at all. (From time to time, I wonder why those who make such a big deal about how Owen was once to have been Obi-Wan's brother don't seem to bring that point up.) I even thought right after Attack of the Clones that Anakin and Padme wouldn't see each other at all during Episode III... not as a reaction to Hayden and Natalie's performance together, of course!
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Date: 2006-11-03 10:57 pm (UTC)One other assumption that I might have shared with John L. Flynn was to draw on the novelisation and think that Anakin wouldn't have known his wife was pregnant at all. (From time to time, I wonder why those who make such a big deal about how Owen was once to have been Obi-Wan's brother don't seem to bring that point up.) I even thought right after Attack of the Clones that Anakin and Padme wouldn't see each other at all during Episode III... not as a reaction to Hayden and Natalie's performance together, of course!