Lmao to be fair, for many at the time, Revenge of the Sith was indeed the final one because of this one being the bridge.

I remember he and his team discussing that and how they felt honored that they would get to show Palpatine's fake kidnapping as well as showing how Grevious got his breathing problem. Although how much of that is canon thanks to differences and trouble placing it into the Lucasfilm created Clone Wars show is up for debate.

all the prequels writing had weaknesses in setting up and paying off stuff properly

I always assumed that Syfo-Dias had planned to allow things to unfold at a specific time but was killed before he could follow through. He had to hide the clones early on lest someone with a conscious find out and work to have it stopped. Following his death, Duku and Palpatine were also served by the army being discovered at the brink of war so if Obi-Wan hadn't discovered them himself it would have shortly been revealed in some way. The sith couldn't afford for the army to not be found, if things had advanced further without an army at hand for the Jwdi and Republic to enlist the lively outcome of things would have been the separatists and Republic suing for peace in relatively short order. And peace with possible intermittent flair ups would have been established. The films never needed a big reveal concerning who did exactly what and when.

I've never believed Syfo-Dias was originally intended to be a real person. In the shooting draft, Syfo-Dias was Sido-Dias. Sidious. I think Palpatine was playing the Kaminoans like he was playing everybody else. When you think you're playing poker, Sheev is playing chess. Of course. Sido-Dias was changed to Syfo-Dias who was changed to a real Jedi. Which I like less. What I don't like is that once this secret clone army commissioned by a mysterious someone gets deployed, (and as a Jedi there's no way Syfo-Dias could afford to buy a clone army, if the Kaminoans worked cheap everybody would do business with them. Someone extremely important bankrolled it) nobody asks any questions and everyone is just cool with it. Even the guy who discovered the secret army in the first place. I understand it though, any investigation of the paper trail would lead directly to Sheev Palpatine and remember, the army was commissioned years before the Separatist crisis, so Palpy would have some splainin' to do. Buuuut the clone army brought us favorites like Rex and Fives. It's still a plot hole though.

The sad part about these payoffs is that the reason most of them weren't paid off sufficiently is because they didn't really matter. "Someone did it" therefore the ending happens, therefore the original trilogy happens, and none of it built on anything or revealed anything new about any of the movies whether it was explained or not.

I think a Clone Wars episode explains your question.

The film Solo might not have been great but you have to admit it's better conceptually than that.

@@DrewLSsix You know, that's a good point.

With Winky's black book and the gay nightlife.

I don't think Lucas was as active with that version, while he was more active with the later one.