If it's been awhile since you've listened to the Star Wars Radio Drama by Brian Daly, you may enjoy popping it in again during your commute. That is, once you finish with Stover's Revenge of the Sith for the second or third time.

If you've never listened to the radio dramas, I recommend them, especially Episode IV. Daly was able to add to Star Wars canon off the screen - a rarity. Episode IV in particular contains additional scenes that do a fine job building the story. If audio-only is not your thing you should still be able to pick up the printed script, published by Del Rey.

One of my favorite scenes in the dramatizaion of Episode IV, in fact in all the radio dramas, takes place on Alderaan, between Leia and her father. Once I get past the fact that way back when he wasn't known as Bail Organa, but "Prestor," I can picture Jimmy Smitts' character in the scene, talking about the encroaching Empire, and instructing Leia to summon "one of our wisest warriors and leaders," Obi-Wan Kenobi.

After I first listened to the Radio Dramas years ago, I could not get this dialogue out of my head each time I watched the destruction of Alderaan in Episode IV:

Leia: "It's time Alderaan stopped resisting the Empire and started fighting it!"

Bail/Prestor: "Violence and warfare nearly destroyed us during the Clone Wars. Do you want that to begin all over again?"

Leia: "How does Alderaan's not having a single weapon help when the Emperor keeps building his armies and his starfleets?"

Bail/Prestor: "Will you be the one to bring war to us, Leia?"

Was Leia wrong in her eventual actions? Did she take the right path? The Radio Drama leads (at least me) to more contemplation.

Episode III added a striking visual of Alderaan - the beautiful planet, with Leia's loving, adoptive parents starting on their journey to raise her with integrity and strength. They give the planet, that we had previously seen only from the Death Star point of view, a human face that compliments the scenes that take place on Alderaan in the Radio Dramas.