There are many high hopes about the upcoming Star Wars trilogy. With everything from: they may be as good as the original saga, that they'll use the Expanded Universe, and of course, they have to be better than the prequels. News is breaking everyday with updates, rumours and other random factoids about the revived franchise. Nothing can fully ruled out. There is another goal that the new series of films in the "Skywalker saga" could work towards achieving, one that has been overlooked by many. This is a tightening up of the loose strands from the prequel films. There is a bunch of canonical elements touched on by the films once or twice, but are never developed on screen. True. The SWEU has produced stacks of material from those strands. The fact remains that films are left with a distinct lack of ebb and flow stemming from these random elements. The prequels try to tell a bigger story while telling the fall of Anakin Skywalker at the same time. Hence why they fail at both. To make them fit together is frankly cumbersome and nearly impossible to do with the existing cinematic material. The Blu-ray releases will testify that this cannot be done by editing the original trilogy, as they are a part of a separate story. It could be done in the world of the prequels if they were completely redone from scratch... and that is just silly. The new films are an option. I will go through a few examples of the strands left open by the prequels and how, if they can, be worked into the mythos of new films...