The major plot point of Anakin being too old would have made way more sense had episode 1 started with Hayden when he actually is a teenager/young adult. His darkness could have been emphasized by him killing Watto which combined with his age gets him rejected. Schmee goes to live on her own while Anakin secretly trains with Qui-Gon and Obi Wan. Anakin has a falling out due to him and Obi Wan’s philosophical differences on how the force can be implemented. He returns to his mom’s outskirt home to find out Shmee was killed by who Anakin suspects to be Tuscan Raiders. He slaughters them but is then kidnapped by Darth Maul, and then told of the power of the dark side by Sidious (including how the will to seek revenge can keep one alive to hint at Maul’s survival). Qui Gon and Obi Wan come to save Anakin and repeat Duel of Fates. Obi Wan takes on Anakin as his padawan not knowing of him slaughtering the tuscans or what he learned from Sidious.

Episode 2 Dooku is still a Jedi who is also the head of his own family empire on some planet. Obi Wan is appointed as Padme’s personal jedi with Qui Gon being dead, which means Anakin is tagging along as Obi Wan reluctantly watches them fall in love. The droids are on the side of the jedi and Mace Windu basically goes on the investigation Obi Wan did hearing about a clone army being created. Mace takes off one of the clone’s helmets and sees that it is Jango, who was another personal guard of Padme appointed by the insistence of Dooku. Mace goes to contact the council and is killed by a Dooku ambush. Jango attempts to assassinate Padme but is killed by Anakin, and Dooku then invades Naboo as the Clone Wars begin. Dooku is killed by Obi Wan who is now the top general behind Yoda as the episode ends with a massive war on the horizon and Anakin and Padme crawling into bed together.

Episode 3 begins with a flashback as Darth Maul is pieced together by a fleshy and robotic creature at the bottom of the pit. This creature’s service is returned by being formed into General Grievous whose goal is to hack into the droid army and turn it on the jedi. Big space ship battle happens like original movie but it is Maul instead of Dooku, and Palpatine tells Anakin that Maul was the one who killed his mother instead of the tuscans. Obi Wan hunts for Grievous but is too late as he is able to execute code 66 which turns all the droids on the jedi. Obi Wan is able to contact Yoda and a handful of lesser Jedi, and they assume Anakin is dead until he and Palpatine appear on intergalactic broadcasts talking about how wrong the jedi are. The crew goes to take out Vader/Sidious, but Padme stowed away and appears during the big climatic battle. Sidious subtly uses the force to cause her to faint with just a look, then wipes out all the lesser Jedi before telling Vader he will save the queen as it is his job as the head of the senate. Anakin then takes on both Yoda and Obi Wan, but loses the high ground. Padme is then choked to death by Palpatine after giving birth.