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What a disappointing series that was.
The cycle goes: Star Wars is for kids and when they grow up they're going to hate the Star Wars their kids are watching. I'm old enough to have seen the entire cycle with the prequels.
And btw, The best trilogy is Rogue One, Empire Strikes Back, and The Last Jedi.
The difference between the prequels and the sequels is that while a bit cheesy and having some cringe/dogshit dialogue in places the prequels have a solid storyline an arc.
The sequels are just shit with only the Last Jedi trying to do anything, then when they made episode 9 they tried to backpedal and made a completely unwatchable piece of shit that makes no sense
Fight choreography for the prequels saves it a lot.
I also argue the world building alone makes them worth it. While the dialogue and plot had some issues, all the new worlds/aliens/the actual sith/etc. heralded in a new age for star wars.
The world in the sequel trilogy is so small in comparison to either of the other trilogys.
Revenge of the Sith has the best and most gratuitous action in the entire mainline series.
So true!
And I'll also grant that the emperor's guard fight and the force projection fight both count to redeem the sequels, a bit.
No. The emperor's guard fight was absolute garbage.
Wait you turn to attack the protagonist. A nice orderly line for one attack and one counter.
Then there was the guy who straight up dropped his weapon before his turn, but pretended he didn't.
The dance fighting where they’re not even trying to score a hit on each other.
What did Last Jedi actually do?
I always feel like I saw a different movie than everyone else, both the people that liked it and the people that disliked it. What I saw was the plotlines of both ESB and ROTJ thrown into a blender, with the entire point of those plotlines removed. There was absolutely nothing in that movie that was original. It was the most misogynistic movie in all of Star Wars, Rey doesn't actually do anything, so I don't know why the incels hate it. I felt like Disney gave in to those idiots and relegated Rey to a support role in that movie.
Sure they probably tried to cram in too much action adventure into RoS to compensate for the fact that TLJ had no meaningful action in it. Or do you think they backpedalled by making Rey the main character again? That was obviously the intent at the end of TFA, so it was TLJ that screwed that up by making women at best an afterthought and at worst an obstacle for the men to overcome. Most misogynistic portrayal of women in Star Wars, they had to do a big marketing campaign to convince everyone the women in the movie were strong before it was released. I guess it worked.
TLJ introduced Rose and had her go on a mission, the next one had her stay back at base and operate a radio off-screen.
Who ever hated the original films?
The amount of slop disney puts out and the fans peddle and push into every damn game and internet space is making me slowly dislike them too.
Star wars is inescapable and it is exhausting.
More than I realized. As a kid, my favorite of the original trilogy was ROTJ. It had everything - an opening where the heroes got vengeance on a big slug, there was a dramatic-looking Death Star, speeder bikes, and force lightning.
My father told me (years later), how much some folks hated it for some of the same things. Rehashing the Death Star, Han accidentally killing Boba Fett (this hyped up bounty hunter that in the previous movie was clever and even mouthed off to Vader himself), Ewoks being cuddly teddy bears with janky traps, Leia being yet another Skywalker out of nowhere...basically, a lot of the same goofy shit people railed on George for in the prequels (myself included: since these conversations with my dad came up because I was a teenager complaining about Jar Jar, Yoda ping ponging around, etc.).
Later I saw that plenty of folks complained about ESB being moodier, the "No, I am your father" being a twist out of nowhere and dramatically undermining Obi-Wan's character by his being dishonest. Some of the same "canon-breaking" retcons that we all complain about today.
Granted...I still love ROTJ despite its flaws, and while I never enjoyed the prequels as much as a lot of folks, I find them endearing in an odd kind of way. The Sequel Trilogy less so, but there's a few bright spots.
Basically, I wonder what the reception of the movies would have been if we had the internet then, and especially if we had engagement-based algorithms driving things, which does such a great job of amplifying hate.
Yeah RotJ was Lucas made Star Wars into a franchise devoted to toy sales. Bringing in other writers and directors to take over was the smart move, it's what he did for ESB and it resulted in a great movie. But because of his petty spat with the Director's Guild, he decided to get a non-union directo for RotJ but basically directed it himself.
Then he announced the Prequel Trilogy on the day he got a good toy deal with Hasbro.
I feel like George Lucas felt like he compromised with the studios too much on the first one, didn't think it would be a success. But it ended up being the most successful movie ever, and he didn't understand why. So he didn't really give a shit about it and just used it to make money, and didn't make any real effort on the movies after the first one.
No movie ruined the themes of Star Wars as much as ESB. Every important person being a Skywalker or a Palpatine turns Luke into plot royalty, and takes away his specialness as an everyman hero.
"I want to learn the ways of the force and become a Jedi like my father"
It was established in the first one that Luke's father was a powerful Jedi. I guess you didn't pay attention.
And yeah all of those important characters like Obi Wan Skywalker, Yoda Skywalker, Han Palpatine, Finn Palpatine, Poe Skywalker, LOL.
At the end of Episode 4, Luke's father is an un-named Jedi, part of a whole lost order of Jedi. That gives Luke a special heritage, but not a unique heritage, as he has later.
I feel like every film after IV has Disney-princessed the Skywalker family a bit further, including episodes V and VI.
Star Wars is a long cycle of really really really cool concepts and really really really shit execution of putting those concepts on screen. People have disliked pretty much every iteration of SW for some reason or another, and it's usually defensible. Boils down to suspension of disbelief and 'to each their own'
I grew up kinda between the originals and prequels, and often found the originals were paced too slow and the whole ewok thing stood out as stupid as fuck even to my 8-ish year old brain; but there was more to like than dislike, so I was fan overall.
Then the prequels come out. Jar Jar used to be what killed it for me, but then the 'darth' Jar Jar fan theory came out, and if you watch his character through that lens it's not quite as bad. I'm 100% sold on that being the original intent with Jar Jar, but then they backed off after so many people fucking hated him in Ep1, and just left him alone as a bumbling idiot and nothing more.
Then the sequels came out and the writing was absolute shit. SW followed that trend for a while, kinda felt like the franchise was dead in the water, existing only as a cash grab... until Rogue One came out, and then Andor, which are both fucking masterpieces.
George Lucas is a genius merchandiser and fun-maker, and things like “cohesion” and “plot” are left for everyone else to figure out.
He was good at overarching plots which is why the prequels are solid in that regard, they got planned in advance. He falters when it comes to smaller plot moments that drive the characters and the audience to follow the overarching plot, the stunted dialog etc.
It used to be movies were movies and not treated like political causes. So saying something like "I though the Leia and Han scenes in the early parts of ESB were a little awkward" (my actual opinion) didn't mean you were choosing to take a side against people that like ESB. I actually love ESB, but yeah there were some scenes are a bit awkward, and that's fine, because it's an action adventure move, so who cares?
So there was a distinction between criticizing parts of a movie and hating a movie. But now in the social media age, everything is either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever, and you group up with people with the same opinion as you.
Star Wars being a hugely popular thing attracts all kinds of algorithm brained people so there's endless content about whatever thing being the best/worst thing ever about everything in Star Wars.
But in the end they're just action adventure movies some are really good, some are terrible, and most of it is in between.
Hate might be too strong of a word but I remember how 12-year-old-me found them hard to watch because their special effects looked dated in comparison to the prequels'.
I personally find the effects from the original trilogy easier to still watch today than the effects in the prequels.
"Jaws was never my scene and i don't like star wars"
~ Freddie Mercury
Freddie was more of a Flash Gordon guy.
Damn, what a soundtrack!
Well yeah, he'll save everyone of us!
BOOOWWWW BA BOWWW BOOWW
Flash!
Ahhhhhh-ahhh-AH!
On social media you can find somebody who hates anything... even kittens, especially the fluffy ones.
There's quite a lot of reviews and comments from the time hating ESB (a muppet as a spiritual guide? Contrived twist!) and RotJ (too cheesy! Just an excuse to sell toys!).
I do, they are fucking shit
I watched the OT as a kid... and then watched the Prequels as a few years older kid...
And I thought the prequels were inferior to the OT, and even to many OT/EU based video games that were released before or in the same timeframe as the prequels.
And then the Sequel trilogy was an utter trainwreck, along with pretty much most of the Disney+ shows.
Rogue One was decent?
Mando S1 and S2 were good (very obviously a serial spaghetti western type show, but executed well untill S3) Andor is great, everything else bad or so uninteresting I haven't even bothered.
I hear that The Clone Wars animated series is good too.
I’ve just started working my way through the series and it’s awesome. It’s great seeing those little hints to Anakin’s later fall, but more than anything I love how much it humanizes the clones.
The series does grapple with how fucked up the clone army is - these are people. They didn’t get a choice to fight, they were grown and trained and never given any other options. Seeing things like a deserter clone is cool, seeing clones actively make the choice to keep fighting and explain why they think it is worthwhile… the clones are the best part of the series.
Clone Wars is amazing. I feel like they’ve seen more screen time for me than the movies at this point. It’s an anthology series. I even enjoyed the last season even if it was mainly a setup for Bad Batch.
Rebels is good too, although very clearly for a young audience.
This, I'm willing to bet that the sequels will be just as beloved as the prequels suddenly were.
My inner grouch is still really bothered by the fact that the prequels became retroactively beloved through meme magic.
As someone who grew up with the prequels. I always loved them. I don't hold the originals in that much high regard other than they came first and pioneered everything. However I do think empire beats episode 2. But return is the worst (only counting 1-6)
Still beat GoT marginally :)
I liked the original Star Wars when I was like 10. I was older when the 2nd one came out and that was ok-ish. I was in my teens when the teddy bear Star Wars movie came out and I thought that was the dumbest fucking shit ever.