Chris Brady
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This is why I get rid of everything but the OT and the EU that does NOT conflict with them (Which by the way is MUCH smaller than you'd think).Those people are all wrong too. The prequels were always crap, and no amount of "the sequels were worse" is gonna change the fact that the prequels were still crap.
Jar Jar was annoying. Anakin was a Mary Sue (at least in episode 1) and started out too young (Obi Wan made it sound like a he was already an adult in the originals), and had close to zero chemistry with Amidala. The Midichlorians SUCKED in every way--even their damn name sounded silly. The Sith Rule of 2 was just stupid. Jedi needing to be basically taken in as babies was just idiotic--are you just gonna reject a 10 y/o Force Sensitive kid and leave him out alone on his own to be tempted by the Dark Side just cuz YOU failed to find him as a toddler?!? What kind of a moronic idea is that?
There was so much inconsistent idiocy in the prequels, it would fill several volumes just hashing them all out! They didn't even get Bail Organa's name right in Episode 1 for crying out loud! A guy calls him Bail ANTILLES in one of the scenes--WEDGE Antilles was a freaking X-Wing pilot from Corellia, not an Alderaanian senator, and he wasn't even born yet! Can't these people get characters' names right?!?
There really wasn't and he's said as much in later interviews.The thing that struck me as the weirdest thing about the Phantom Menace was this whole thing of trying place Anakin as this kid hero figure. It was just tonally WTF?
It's like they completely ignored the fact that he grows up to be Darth Vader. (At the level of plot it was touched on sure, but the film just completely seemed unable to deal with the fact that we were watching a film about a kid who the audience knows is doomed.)
It's not that the kid needs to be clearly evil from birth, they could have gone with innocence that's later corrupted or something, but clearly Lucas had no idea how to do what he was trying to do with the prequels. You need some kind of genuine tonal presentiment that the whole thing is actually some kind of tragedy.
It was just bizarre, and made it clear right from the start that there was really no point to the prequels even existing.
Was there noone to read the script and say"George, this thing you're trying to do here. It's beyond you. Stick to fun Saturday matinee space opera adventure. This story, whether it includes podracing or not, this ain't it.
Removing the Prequels and Disney Trilogy isn't not mutually exclusive to that goal. Even better, that actually HELPS with spin off properties. Less confining changes to the lore.Given the opportunity to reboot, I don't.
I create a streaming focused Cinematic Universe focused entirely on stories featuring new characters who do not appear in any of the Movies: Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy or Sequel Trilogy. Star Wars is a massive Galaxy. There is no reason it has to focus entirely on this one family.
IMHO, the only unironically good thing to come out of Disney Star Wars has been The Mandalorian. It's an entirely self-contained story that can stand on its own and be appreciated even by someone who has never seen the Original Trilogy. Disney should lean into that.