Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising & The Last Command.

True that.

They never used battle meditation in the Clone Wars

then again perhaps the current Jedi Council leaders and Jedi don't have a high enough midichlorian count to be able to perform such deeds?

Haven't bothered reading every reply so these probably have already been mentioned, butI would like to see Star Wars return to its original style.


By this I mean:

Characters
A focus on characters rather than large scale battles - 4,5,6 were all about the relationships between the protagonists both good and evil. 1,2,3 for me focused way too much on the battles. Yes they are important but I would prefer the sort of balance found in the Lotr.

Lightsaber battles

Taking ep 4 out of the equation as that was GL insisting on using lightsabers like broadswords which didn't work, the darth/luke fights felt much more visceral than anything in the newer films which seemed to be all about doing as many somersaults as possible.

Comic Relief

In the old films, the instances of comic relief were mild and infrequent and came almost entirely from the droids. Something similar should be the case in the new films i.e. no obtuse and in your face slapstick such as Jar Jar especially when you then go and change his personality completely in subsequent films without any explanation instead of just removing him altogether grrrr...... anyway you get my point.

Better casting

 Not all of the casting in the newer films was bad. I only really have a problem with the casting of Anakin, both actors btw and to a lesser extent Obi-wan.
Haley Joel Osmond as the young Anakin imo was cast entirely because he had the same hair as Luke Skywalker. Thats the only reason I can come up with for casting him. I don't think I need to go into my reasons for not liking Hayden Christensen(spelling?).

With Obi-Wan I feel that they would have had better luck emulating the great Sir Alec Guiness with someone less well known and less scottish, just my humble opinion.

If the new films are set 1000yrs after there is no reason to be casting people based on genetic similarities so I expect there to be a much higher standard of acting. 

As weird as this may sound, just try to understand it: Have something happen where a large majority of the good and bad people actually get converted to a 3rd faction, which is basically super evil.  This faction is a threat to both the rebels and the dark side, as they will wipe out essentially everything.  The dark side winds up TEAMING up with the rebels to defeat the 3rd faction, and in the final movie, you will have a final battle with 1 dark side person, 1 rebel teamed up against 1 or 2 faction people.  They obviously destroy the faction people, but the dark side then persists to his normal routine, leading to the dark side guy backstabbing the rebel!

Which if true, would kinda work for Kaz's idea that the Jedi slowly become weaker and weaker and seen as more of a cult by Eps 7-9.

Hmmm... not sure I like the idea of Jedi getting weaker due to reduced midochlorians. Then again, maybe Bounty hunters will have a better chance against the Jedi in such a case... I shall ponder on these ideas.

oh my god...if its really happen than shame on Lucas again...the only new Star Wars movie he should do is Episode Zero with a little Yoda and the story how the force was originated...

Battle meditation was referred to in the expanded universe. That was given in Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire as the explanation for why the Imperial Fleet started getting their asses kicked after the Emperor died in RoJ, because the Emperor was secretly boosting their battle prowess

Think how bad the Stormtroopers aim must be unboosted.