What-If Scenarios

I know what you're thinking.

Oh no, you think. I bet this is just another boring blog about something that authors do.

Well, fortunately for you, that's not what this is about. This is about what-if scenarios in stories that can never and will never happened. But they're still fun... for us at least. *Evil grin*
For example...

Last night, my sister Crista and I were playing the most fun game ever. It goes like this:

1. We each randomly select a character. Neither of us knows the other person's choice.
2. We reveal our choices to each other.
3. One of us randomly selects a quest/task this pair of character must complete.

We did it four or five times last night, and a couple of times this morning. Here are our top favorites:

• Gaea (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) and Pippin (Lord of the Rings) must learn to drive a car together.
• Drew (PJatO) and Legolas (LOTR) must cross the Misty Mountains together.
• Flynn Rider (Tangled) and Tom Bombadil (LOTR) must build a car... together.
• Merry (LOTR) and Cluny the Scourge (Redwall) must stay in a cage together for three days without harming each other.

So, yes. We also do 'What would happen if...' a lot, though I must say most of them are totally unrealistic. Crista and I really like the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (and you can see my review of it here)... so a lot of our what-if scenarios end up like that. We seem to have a strange obsession with disco balls and Irish jigs... so take any scene in The Hobbit and add a disco ball/Irish jig. That's what we like to talk about after bed. Once we turned the final battle at the end of The Hobbit into a party with a disco ball (of course), a waitress, fireworks... and a bunch of cats from warriors.

Just picture Warriors and The Hobbit combined with this.

But, on the more serious side, sometimes we also talk about what we'd like to see in the two upcoming Hobbit movies. Here's a scene I'd like to see:

• So Thorin has just been captured by woodland elves and dragged into the throne room of their king, Thranduil (who happens to be Legolas's father). In the course of his interrogation, Thorin insults Thranduil. Legolas takes offense at this and challenges Thorin. Thorin takes Legolas up on this challenge, and Tauriel is forced to break up a potential fight.

Fascinating, eh?
So what 'What would happen if...' scenarios do you think about? Do you wonder what's going to happen in upcoming movies? I love hearing from you!

The Continuing Story of the Life of Anakin Skywalker (Season II, Part I)

You've got the right to remain right here with me,

I'm on your tail in a hot pursuit,

Love is a high speed chase racin' down the street,

Woo woo woo,

I'm comin' after you.

 

And that up there is the song I cannot get out of my head! Thanks a lot Owl City!

 

Okay, we all know I didn't really mean that. But as you may or may not have gathered, I have finally listened to Owl City's new album. And it wasn't all that bad, despite my expectations. My favorite song is I'm Coming After You, which I just typed the chorus to. It's great... I highly recommend it. (That link will take you to a lyrics video on YouTube).

 

But anyway, today I intend to write a synopsis to Season II of the Continuing Story. Now, keep in mind that I remember the least about this season. Season I episodes were recorded in one of my notebooks because we had, and still have, hopes of filming them. Season III happened far more recently, so I can remember most of those episodes. Season II, however, is the least well known, so there may be later updates to this post. But I'll do my best to remember most of it now.

 

BTW, here's a link to the first season synopsis in case you haven't seen it yet.
 

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So, episode eleven... well, I'll just start with the first 'Season II' episode, or rather, group of episodes, that I can remember.

Episodes eleven through thirteen were a three-part story entitled 'Anakin Meets Anakin'. Apparently, Anakin from The Phantom Menace had time-travelled into the Clone Wars. The results were... well, interesting.

I honestly can't remember much about this series, but one bit I can remember was a scene where young Anakin decides to take a joyride in one of the starships. Several high-speed antics ensue, and Anakin barely makes it back to the station in one piece. At this point, Clone Wars Anakin discovers what the young version of himself has done and gives, well, himself a thorough chewing out.

This is one of the most well-remembered lines in the entire three seasons of the Continuing Story:

(Clone Wars) Anakin: WHAT IN THE NAME OF JANGO FETT DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?!?!?!?

Younger Anakin apologizes and promptly vomits. You see, in the Continuing Story, young Anakin gets motion sickness. Or at least, he used to. I'm not sure if he still gets it.

Anyway, we sort of copied Back to the Future, despite never having seen it, by having the Anakins narrowly avoid changing the Clone Wars forever. But eventually everything got straightened out, and Young Anakin went back to his own time period.

A Note: At this point, our naïveté had somewhat gone down, because I had attempted to write a Star Wars novel and thus learned a lot about the faraway galaxy.

Though honestly that novel was nearly as bad as Season I in terms of naïveté.

Well, anyway, episodes fourteen through sixteen were, guess what, another series. Are you seeing a pattern here?

The premise was that one day in the Jedi Temple, Anakin is tinkering around with the security system. Perfectly safe, right? But then the alarm goes off, and guess who everyone blames? Anakin. Anakin then tries to convince them of his innocence by igniting his blue lightsaber (because everyone uses your lightsaber color to determine which side you're on), but then--GASP! His lightsaber is red of all colors!

Anakin is thrown in jail to await his trial before the Council.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Now the Council gives trials? When did this happen? And why? Did the Jedi decide that the Republic wasn't good enough? Or are Mace Windu and Yoda just being control freaks like usual?

Resent that, I do.

Be quiet, Yoda. Or is that Midnight? I really can't tell...

Well, anyway, apparently the Council does give trials, because Ahsoka is chosen to be Anakin's lawyer. Why the Council let an eleven-year-old Padawan do it, I have no idea, but Ahsoka loyally does her best to defend her Master, but the entire Council seems to be against Anakin--even, I might add, Obi-Wan.

Ha! I knew it! It just proves the theory that Obi-Wan never liked Anakin! It was a conspiracy the whole time!

Ahem... so the Council decides that Anakin really is a Sith and decide to... throw him in the lava pit.

Whoa whoa whoa, wait just a parsec. First of all, doesn't this go against the Jedi rule of don't kill unless you absolutely have to? Secondly, where the sprink did the Jedi get a lava pit? Thirdly, why isn't Emperor Chancellor Palpatine sticking up for his potential next apprentice? Fourth, why isn't someone else protesting, like Padme? I know Anakin is an introvert, but doesn't he have any friends at all?

Apparently he does have one friend left, because Ahsoka decides to attempt to save her Master. She steals borrows rents a speeder and, right as Anakin is about to fall into the lava, heroically rescues him. They escape to a faraway planet, planning to lie low until things quiet down again.

And scene.

Next I'll introduce the Continuing Story Prequel, which was set in the time period just before the Phantom Menace. It chronicled the adventures of young Anakin Skywalker, and was just as ridiculous as the original.

S1: E1 starts with an idyllic day on Tattooine. Young Anakin is sitting at his lemonade stand, watching the sand erode.

I'm not even going to point out how implausible Anakin's having a lemonade stand is.

And then VRRRM! A podracer flies by. As we find out shortly, three kids are practicing for a larger podrace: Random Kid #1, Random Kid #2, and The Genius Kid Who Always Wins (often simply shortened to The Genius Kid). We never find out the kids' actual names. Also, I should note here that it has been suggested that Random Kids #1 & 2 grow up to be the guys who try (and succeed) to kidnap Anakin in Season I.

So, the Random Kids have two junky, thrown-together podracers, and The Genius Kid has a motorcycle. Every time we got a better Lego set, The Genius Kid got an update in technology. He currently has a cross between at ATV and monster truck. It has an inbuilt Wii, Xbox-360, Playstation 3, limitless game options, iPod Touch function, high-def speakers, limitless music options, Blu-ray player, limitless movie options, inbuilt Kindle with read-aloud function, limitless book options, Angry Birds Live function, auto-pilot, and a voice-activated computer. That voice-activated computer actually caused a lot of trouble in the most recent episode of Season III... but that's a different story.

So anyway, as one of the Random Kids passes Anakin's lemonade stand, he makes a, er, rude noise (henceforth referred to as a 'raspberry'). This distracts him, and he crashes into a rock that looks a whole awful lot like a plastic container.

Crashing through the snow! On a pair of broken skis! O'er the hills we go! Crashing into trees! Ow ow ow--

Shut up, me. It's not even Christmas.

So the kid bangs on the side of the apparently hollow rock, knocking it over. The next Random Kid drives straight into the container-like rock. Then the 'lid' slides shut and voila--two kids in a jar. Anakin (henceforth referred to as Ani) has the nerve to laugh, but the kids yell at him and he upshuts.

In the newer extended edition of this episode, Ani goes to fetch Watto and his mother to get the kids out of the jar, but it should be noted that this scene was not originally included in the episode.

Next, the kids all line up to buy lemonade from the stand. Apparently there's a rule of 'losers buy for the winner', and therefore the Random Kids are very grumpy. While fetching the lemonade, Ani accidentally steps on a lemonade squirt gun he's been tinkering with and squirts lemonade all over the Random Kids. They promptly beat him up, and then run to tell Watto.

And scene.

The next episode I can remember is Christmas Special I, so we'll go with that. It wasn't actually Christmas when we did the special--it was the middle of the year, but we didn't care. I refer to it as Christmas Special I because we recently did another Christmas Special, sometime around the Christmas of 2012. But enough going on.

It starts on Tattooine, in the Continuing Story Prequel era. Somehow, battle droids get transferred onto the planet and a republic army shows up. A huge battle ensues, and somehow Ani, the Random Kids, and The Genius Kid are involved.

We have the perfect song picked out for this scene: Christmas Sarajevo 12/24. It's basically a mixture of Carol of the Bells and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen--played on electric guitar. Oh yes. (The link will take you to a video of the song on YouTube.)

But then, just as the battle reaches its climax, guess who shows up?

Santa Claus.

His sled lands and he dismounts.

Line:

Santa: Where's the snow?

And scene.

Christmas Special I, Part II opens right where Part I left off. Santa has landed on Tattooine, in the middle of a big Republic vs. Separatist battle.

Ani and the Random Kids run up to Santa, asking him to give them presents. And thus begins a story-hopping adventure as Santa tries to fulfill the wishes of three kids. All I can remember was that the story hopping involved the Wingfeather Saga, and that it all descended into chaos after a while. But eventually, our heroes made it away unscathed.

And scene.

Next up, episodes 20-22 were yet another series. In this one, Ani had to make some sort of delivery to Mos Espa. And for whatever reason, he wasn't living in Mos Espa at the time.

So he loads up with lemonade and wiia (a type of bread we made up) and heads off for Mos Espa. When he finally reaches the town it's dark. Unable to find the house he's delivering to, (A house? Come on! This is Star Wars!) young Anakin slumps against a house and falls asleep.

And scene.

When Ani wakes up in Ep. 21, two guys are apparently robbing him of his lemonade and wiia. Terrified, Anakin complies with the guys' demands--until the strangest thing happens. Out of nowhere, a random girl flies down, windmill-kicks the guys in the face, grabs Ani, and swings back up onto a rooftop.

Line:

Mysterious Girl: Come on, Luke!

So then... wait wait wait, hold on a minute. Did she just call him Luke? FORESHADOWING! Hey, cool. It strikethroughes it whenever I type foreshadowing. Hey, did it again. Foreshadowing. Okay, I'll stop.

Anyway...

Mystery Girl brings Ani up to a house built on the rooftops. She promptly finds out that he isn't Luke, and then introduces herself as Fern. She then introduces her five siblings: Maraly (Wingfeather Saga reference!), Ben, Luke, Han, and Leia.

MORE FORESHADOWING!

Fern invites Ani to stay with her family. Ani excepts.

Thus begins a new, more pleasant adventure for Ani. Maraly is an excellent cook, and she teaches Ani her secret wiia recipe. Luke, who Fern originally mistook Anakin for, frequently wanders around Mos Espa, and he shows Ani around. Han and Leia... well, they're the five-year-old twins. Who always fight.

EVEN MORE FORESHADOWING!

And Ben is the kid who always gets stuck baby-sitting his younger siblings.

EGADS! EVEN MORE FORESHADOWING!

Now, here I'd like to point out an interesting fact. In the most recent episode of Season III, young Anakin got trapped on The Genius Kid's podracer with the voice-activated computer. Several characters from Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit kept magically appearing in the podracer. Every time this happened, Ani would yell 'Stranger danger!' and the computer would do something weird (like banging the new arrivals with a frying pan).

Now where, I ask you, was Ani's obsessive sense of stranger danger when he met Fern? Why was he perfectly okay with strangers when Fern invited him over, but was freaking out later on the series... FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON?!?!?!?!

Please forgive my Caps Lock rage. It's just that stuff like this really bothers me.

Anyway, eventually Ani left Fern's house, got in some minor trouble in Mos Espa, and then stowed away on some spice smugglers' ship for a reason I can't remember.

In the newer extended edition of this episode, the smugglers are chased by Republic troopers (not to be confused with clone troopers). Anakin gets motion sickness and starts... well, vomiting. The... well, vomit flies back and hits the troopers' windshield, effectively keeping them from following the smugglers.

Random Smuggler #1: Somehow, I have the strange feeling that someone in our hold is vomiting right now.

Random Smuggler #2: You really are going crazy!

Well, the smugglers finally land, and for whatever reason, they've landed on Hoth. *Facepalm* Why Hoth? Why not some other planet? I mean, of all the places, they pick a deserted planet that's stuck in endless winter? Just what is wrong with these guys?

Well, anyway, they overhaul the ship to get their secret load of spice out. Why did they have to do this, you ask? Well, really it was only because we only had one ship at the time: a boxy-looking freighter that I built from scratch while writing my Star Wars novel. It did have a smuggling compartment on the bottom, but the only way to get anything in or out of that compartment was by overhauling the ship and pulling the bottom off.

So the smugglers flip the ship over... somehow... and then start arguing for some arbitrary reason (Is anybody else thinking story convenience?), giving Ani a chance to escape.

But keep in mind that this is a kid from Tattooine, a desert planet, going to Hoth, an ice planet. HUGE climate shock. So Ani stumbles around, feeling cold, until he stumbles into a door. He opens it and stumbles into a small shelter.

I just used 'stumbled' three times in two sentences. Lady Redundant Woman strikes again! (Word Girl reference!)

So Ani sits down on some random chair. But now come some continuity problems. You see, presumably the lights are out, because Ani doesn't see two Jedi sneaking up on him. How a Force-sensitive kid doesn't notice two guys sneaking up on him is totally out there--unless the lights are out, in which case it's perfectly logical because he wasn't expecting them in the least. But then--

Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't think you're supposed to be here.

Anakin: {Gasps}

Qui-Gon: Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. What's your name?

Anakin: A-Ani.

Now, the only record we have of someone turning on the lights is Obi-Wan Forcing a lamp on. So how, I ask you, did two Jedi manage to surprise Ani with the lights on? And if the lights were actually off, why on Earth Hoth didn't they turn them on afterwards? Argh!

Well, whatever the case, Ani and Qui-Gon have a short conversation. Ani mentions that he got there by stowing away on a smuggling ship. At this, Qui-Gon tells Anakin to stay there, and then leaves with Obi-Wan to investigate. Of course, Ani just can't leave well enough alone and secretly follows them.

So the two smugglers are still arguing near their still-overturned ship (STORY CONVENIENCE!). Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan sneak up on the smugglers, then confront them about the smuggling. The smugglers deny everything, and since they haven't yet unloaded anything from their ship, the Jedi can't prove anything.

But during this argument, Ani crawls under the wing of the ship. Now, there's a gun mounted on the wing. When Ani crawls under the wing, the gun locates him and tries to shoot him. Ani escapes just in time, and the ship blows itself up.

Line:

Smuggler #1: I have no idea what you're talking about--

Ship: {Explodes}

Spice: {Rains down through the air}

Qui-Gon: Then what do you call this? {Catches spice}

And scene... I think. In fact, I'm pretty sure there was more, but I have no idea what actually happened, so I'll just cut it off here.

 

At this point, I'd like to point out something in the title. That's right, the title of this blog. Look at it. It says, (Season II, Part I), doesn't it? Well, you know what that means. It means I'll have to continue this later, because Season II was way longer than I thought it would be, and I'll have to continue it later. So, hasta la vista!

 

To Be Continued...

The Continuing Story of the Life of Anakin Skywalker (Season I)

AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Curse you cliffhangers! And while I'm at it, curse you continuity snarls!

Yep, it's that time of week again! Saturday! When I blog about something no one else cares about and use an unearthly amount of exclamation points and strikethroughs!

Actually, research has shown that I do that all the time anyway, but who cares? It's Saturday!

Yeah, I think Saturday also effects my ability to blog coherently. But at least I'm being productive, unlike SOMEONE I KNOW!

COUGH IVYPOOL COUGH

So, you're wondering about what I wrote at the top of the... post... aw dang, did I strikethrough that? Goshdarnit, I did! Oh well, everyone knows you can still read it when it's strikethroughed (is that even a word?). So, you're wondering why I wrote that? Well, first of all, let me just say that when you're reading a book, it really, really stinks when that book is only thirty pages long and cuts off in the middle of some really promising dialogue.

Oh, right, left out the bit about the continuity snarls, didn't I? Well, reading reviews will do that to you, because Warriors has so. Frinkin'. Many. CONTINUITY ERRORS!

AND my CAPs LoCk bUtton JUST brokE.

All I'm saying is, you get fed up with it after a while.

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Aaaaaand all of that up there was just a long, completely pointless introduction to a blog about The Continuing Story!

Yep, no one has the slightest idea what I'm talking about. Moving on.

I'd probably better explain.

You, see, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away after we watched the first Star Wars movie, my siblings and I were hooked. We started playing this thing called The Continuing Story of the Life of Anakin Skywalker.
Or the Continuing Story for short.
I actually didn't participate in the first episode. That episode was really just poor Anakin getting chased around the galaxy by a bunch of Littlest Pet Shops that wanted to abduct him.
Or something like that, I don't really know.

Well, I eventually got pulled into it, and found it was actually fun. So we made a pact that all three of us absolutely had to be present in order to play the Continuing Story. The next episode came out shortly.
A couple notes--first of all, we were only playing these episodes, not filming them. Secondly, at the time, all we had was an Anakin Lego minifigure from a set my little brother had gotten. We threw together some makeshift minifigs for Ahsoka, Obi-Wan, and R2-D2, and that was our cast.

So, episode two was... a repeat of Anakin getting chased by the Littlest Pet Shops. Only these LPSes were Anakin's friends. They were only trying to invite him to a party, but after the chaos of episode one, Anakin was unduly paranoid and didn't want anything to do with them. But as it turned out, it was a good thing Anakin didn't trust his friends, because the 'party' was just a ruse to get him back on Tattooine, his notorious home planet. From there, these two guys were planning to kidnap and re-enslave Anakin.

Are you laughing/crying/flinging you computer across the room at our Star-Wars naïveté yet? No? Good, because there's a whole lot more.

So, after the LPSes failed to convince Anakin, the two guys from Tattooine took matters into their own hands and went after him. Conveniently, the 'Jedi base' our characters were stationed at was on, (drumroll please) Tattooine. The guys somehow got into the base, scared the wits out of Anakin, and then a chase scene ensued. Anakin ends up on a rocky/forested moon. He sees a tree/rock in the shape of some guys and gets the wits scared out of him again. Then the guys show up, scare the wits of Anakin yet again, and capture him, because somehow, (and very conveniently, I might add), Anakin left his lightsaber at the Jedi base.
And scene.

When episode three rolled around, Anakin was being kept prisoner by the guys. Apparently the scheme had worked, because Anakin was now working for the guys, who, rather than fleeing the scene of the crime had--get this--stayed right where they were on Tattooine.
And if that's not enough to make you laugh/cry/fling you computer across the room, here's more: Anakin, rather than trying to escape the guys' collapsible house (FORESHADOWING!), was keeping a diary of his captivity.

Oh the naïveté. It burns.

So, back on the 'Jedi base', Ahsoka and Obi-Wan figure out that Anakin is missing and search every planet in the sector but Tattooine for him. *Facepalm* I would like to also note here that, coincidentally, while Anakin had a sleek one-person speeder, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan were riding around in a tiny, pieced-together two-seater with a hand-held radio. This was because we only had one Lego Star Wars set at the time (the speeder) and had to piece together everything else, but still.

Anyway, on Day 7 of Anakin's captivity, the doorbell of the house rings. A doorbell? Come on! This is Star Wars! Anakin opens the door and promptly has a blaster shoved in his face. The Separatists have invaded Tattooine.

But wait! Why are the Separatists attacking a tiny house in the middle of nowhere? Why aren't they targeting the 'Jedi base', where they might actually be able to do some damage?

Like capturing R2-D2... again.

Well, anyway, the Separatists attack. The guys, being cowards, dive into their house, apparently not realizing that some well-aimed blaster fire is all it'll take to bring that house down on their heads. Or maybe they did realize it, but figured the battle droids were too bad of an aim to hit any critical supports. Whatever the case, the guys hide, and Anakin, being handcuffed to one of them, is dragged in with them. But then a battle droid discovers the lever that collapses the house, and... well, you can guess what happens next.

Long story short, the guys and Anakin are captured--and apparently, Anakin is too dirty to be recognized by the droids, and it taken for an ordinary prisoner.
And scene.

Episode four opens with Anakin being kept prisoner in (surprise surprise) a Separatist base. Things look bleak...

But wait! Ahsoka and Obi-Wan have conveniently gotten wind of this base and are on their way to attack it and rescue the prisoners!

So the two Jedi arrive, fight their way in in a fairly decent scene, and head off to rescue the prisoners. Naïveté Time: Apparently, the two guys from Tattooine have joined up with the Separatists and are now on their side! *Facepalm*
So only Anakin is rescued by the two other Jedi. Then they have a joyful reunion, right?

Nope.
Anakin has not had a bath/shower since being captured, and it still so dirty that no one can recognize him. The Jedi take him for an ordinary guy.
That on its own would be bad enough, but then Obi-Wan figures out that Anakin is 'Force-sensitive' and--get this--decides to train him as a Jedi!
*Headdesk*

Another thing. Where, you may ask, was the Jedi High Council in all of this?
Floating in the black abyss of DOOM!
I have no earthly idea where they were. They were probably floating in a black hole of some kind, which kinda-sorta makes sense, considering that we didn't know they existed when we played this episode.

Go ahead. Laugh/cry/fling your computer across the room. I'll wait.

Anyways, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka bring Anakin back to their base. Obi-Wan goes off to take care of some 'important business' (vague, much?) and leaves Ahsoka to train Anakin.

Well, that got all of three inches off of the ground before it flopped. As I remember, it went something like this:
Ahsoka: So, this is a lightsaber.
Anakin: Listen, Snips. I--
Ahsoka: Don't you dare call me that! Only Anakin calls me that!
Anakin: *Facepalm*

Yeah.

Well, eventually, Anakin got a bath, and lo and behold! It really was him all the time!
And scene.

Episode five wasn't actually too bad in terms of our naïveté. It was a stand-alone episode, with a pretty simple plot: During a space battle, Ahsoka crash-lands and is stranded on Alderaan. (Which, by the way, was one of three planets we knew about at the time. The other two were Tattooine and Dantooine.) Ahsoka is almost captured by the Separatists before Anakin and Obi-Wan rescue her.

I have two main problems with this episode. The first is that, as far as I know, Alderaan is a Republic planet. You could say it was being invaded at the time, but that doesn't explain the free movement of the Separatist army on the planet.
The second problem (and this one is just atrocious) is this: Due to our lack of battle droid minifigures, we made up a different Separatist army. And that army was called... the army of pants.
*Headdesk*

Go ahead. Laugh/cry/fling your computer across the room. I'll wait.

Anyway... all the army of pants really was was a bunch of Lego pants formed into an army. That was the army of pants' first and only appearance in the Continuing Story. Strangely, they never showed up after that.

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Around this time, We went to visit my uncle, who lives in California. While we were there, we went on a trip to LEGOLAND. And, as it turned out... there was a Star Wars exhibit there.

We learned so much from that exhibit. For one thing, we learned that there were planets called Naboo, Geonosis, Mustafar, Hoth, Endor, and Christophsis (Clone Wars reference!). So, when we got back to my uncle's house, we immediately began another episode of the Continuing Story. This time, our heroes were bound for... Naboo.

Dun dun dun!

You see, we knew next to nothing about these new planets. So in our version... Naboo was under the control of the Separatists.

Are you laughing/crying/flinging your computer across the room yet? No? Wow. Well, keep reading. You'll get there eventually.

So anyway, Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan go to Naboo. Once there, they commence Operation Codenames. To this day, the characters have never shaken off their ridiculous codenames.

Anakin is Skyguy. Terrible, I know, and heaven only knows how the Separatists haven't caught on yet. But I digress...

Ahsoka is Snips. A little less obvious, maybe, but that coupled with her Mandalorian helmet disguise (Clone Wars reference!)? Just... no.

Obi-Wan is Jedi Gerbil. This is something of an inside joke for my sister and me, because a while back we read this book about a gerbil named after Obi-Wan. So naturally, we had to nickname him after that. Actually, Obi-Wan originally had a different codename, but we forgot it and anyway this was much better.

R2-D2 is Artooie. *Facepalm* This is probably the worst of the lot. I think we were originally codenaming the characters after Ahsoka's nicknames, so this was R2's. But again, heaven only knows how the Separatists haven't caught on.

Those were the original four. But one of the more recent episodes took the codenaming to a whole new level, so I'll include those codenames as well.

Padme is Lovebird. Any Star Wars fan will know exactly why we called her this. Heaven only knows how the Jedi Council hasn't caught on yet...

Yoda is Muppet. He was named after his origins. Enough said.

Aayla Secura (Clone Wars reference!) is French Girl. She was named this because of her accent, which is sort of French.

Nahdar Vebb (Clone Wars reference!) is Vebb Nahdar. *Facepalm* Good grief, that's even worse than Skyguy. Heaven only knows how the Separatists haven't caught on yet...

Those are the codenames as they are right now.

So, then, where was I? Oh yes, Operation Codenames on Naboo. Well, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka go down into a Naboo town, leaving R2 alone on the hill where they landed.

Is anyone else thinking epic fail?

Well, in the town, they meet... a cute girl. No, I'm serious. Keep in mind that this was before we knew of the Anakin x Padme pairing (and I'd have preferred it if it stayed that way--I've never liked that pairing). But then again, this was basically a re-telling of that story, except that the girl wasn't a queen/senator and Anakin wasn't forbidden to have attachments (this was before we knew about that). Oh, and the girl was blond.

Anyway, the Jedi, with their new friend in tow, head down to the center of town for some arbitrary reason. Along the way, and the girl deduces that they are Jedi and shares her findings out loud. This freaks the Jedi out and they run for it...

...and run straight into a battle droid patrol.
I have no idea how it happened, but somehow the Jedi escape the droids and make it to their ship...

...and then their ship short-circuits for no reason and they end up crash-landing on Geonosis.

Well, at least we got one thing right. In the Continuing Story, Geonosis is indeed a Separatist planet. But this is offset by the fact that we had no idea what Geonosians looked like. Therefore, we decided that in the Continuing Story, all Geonosians... wear crazy hats.

What? You're still not laughing/crying/flinging your computer across the room? Wow, you're tough.

So of course, they continue with Operation Codenames while on Geonosis. This time, though, only Anakin and Obi-Wan go into town, leaving Ahsoka to watch R2.

Finally they're realizing that you might not want to leave a droid with important secrets unattended on, oh, a SEPARATIST PLANET!

But then Ahsoka, while communicating over radio, blows their cover by forgetting to use the codenames. Everyone except for R2 is captured.
And scene.

We pick up again in episode seven with Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan sitting in a Separatist jail cell. To add humor, apparently the Separatists serve nasty food to their prisoners. Ahsoka and Anakin spend a good part of the episode complaining about this, while Obi-Wan berates them for being so petty.

Obi-Wan: Oh, you say the food is nasty? Well SUCK IT UP, you two! If this were the actual Clone Wars you'd be facing a lot worse than nasty food!

Anyways, after a few more antics from the young'uns, Obi-Wan Forces the door open and they escape. Obi-Wan warns them to be careful, as there will be droids and Geonosians around, but Anakin actually mans up and tells Obi-Wan not to worry. After all, he is a master of the Force...

...and then he walks right into a low-hanging beam and knocks himself out. Ahsoka, of course, takes the opportunity to make a snarky comment.

Eventually, the Jedi escape from the dungeon, only to be confronted be Ventress. Obi-Wan and Ahsoka are duly frightened, but Anakin is strangely disaffected.

Anakin: Really, guys. It's just a dangerous Sith apprentice and bunch of battle droids that could kill us in half a second. Why are you so worried?

Obi-Wan and Ahsoka battle the droids and Geonosians, while Anakin takes on Ventress. The fight seems to be a stalemate, but then the clones conveniently show up and rescue the Jedi, making the first appearance they've made all season.
And scene.

Episodes eight through ten are a special. Apparently Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan have nothing to do, so they're watching a movie: Disney's Tangled. Why Anakin and Obi-Wan agreed to watch such a girly movie is beyond me, but I digress. Come to think of it, how do they know about Disney? This is Star Wars!

Well, anyway, unbeknownst to the other two Jedi, Anakin has been tinkering with their DVD player, and this causes them to be sucked into the movie.

Somehow, they are all separated while being sucked through a wormhole. Ahsoka ends up with Rapunzel, Anakin ends up with Flynn Rider, and Obi-Wan ends up with the guards.

In short: Ahsoka gets whacked with a frying pan before teaming up with Rapunzel, Anakin almost gets hanged before Obi-Wan bails him out, and Obi-Wan, well, doesn't do much other than bailing Anakin out.

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This has been The Continuing Story of the Life of Anakin Skywalker: Season I

 

I may or may not post synopses for Seasons II and III. It depends on the feedback I get for this one. So, if you would like to see Seasons II and III, please post a comment telling me that!