Originally posted by yuri31[..]
The first trilogy seems to be about Luke. The Phantom Menace's main character is for me Obi-Wan. In the Clone Wars it starts to be about Ani and Padme and when you watch Revenge, you get that it's whole about Darth Vader. IMHO
The original series was meant to be Luke helping Anakin retrieve redemption (by one hell of a long route lol), whilst the "first" series is how Anakin fell from grace (from what I remember reading lol...).
Essentially, the whole thing was about how Anakin was mistaken for "the chosen one", get depressed when it turned out he wasn't, gets pissed, goes on the rampage, Luke comes along, finds out its him, sorts the place out, everything's hunkydory

(My god I sound ridiculously geeky lol...but fuck it!

(If you're able to get hold of some of the many books that are set after the films, it's even better - the "Expanded Universe", I think it's termed)