Edit: You know, looking back at all these negative reviews of the PT, makes you wonder if these people were even paying attention to the grander story being told.
Say whatever you want about Lucas but he was spelling out to us how republics fall and empires rise and its not out from strength but evil disguised as charismatic benevolence. Anyone who were bored by the politics of the PT (outside of children that is) really didnt seem to like SW for the right reasons, all they cared was the pew pew and sabers.
I recall a video that explained the politcs of SW and one of the top comments said
"George Lucas put a mirror in front of American society and we smashed the mirror and walked away without a second thought" and thats really what most kind of did, didnt they?
On the macro scale, the prequels are such cautionary tales about institutions and governments succumbing to their own stagnation and then handing over the freedom their ancestors fought so hard for the illusion of security...starting to sound all a tad frustratingly familiar huh?
I feel like a mixture between the sequel trilogy being shit and what the prequels foretold kind of starting to happen right in front of our eyes (right down to electing an old man that claims he will "fix" everything...tho IRL is worse because there was literally nothing to fix...but I guess it makes sense given that the crisis the republic was going through was mostly fabricated). All of it kind of made us see the PT differently.
Feels different now that its hitting home
Edit 2: I feel like another reason the PT were poorly reviewed (outside of the stuff on the micro scale like acting and dialogue) was because people were expecting something more easy to digest like the OT. Its very fucking clear who the bad guys were in the OT. In the PT...the lines are kind of blurred and the stuff on it starts to resemble our current world than something like the Revolutionary movement or WW2. Perhaps that kind of caught too many people off guard and they felt like this "wasnt SW". Say whatever you want about George (again) but its clear he didnt want the PT to be just a reskin of the OT, so many the lines blurred because heroes and villains felt like a good way of moving on from the OT's style.
Again, the PTs were far more original than we ever gave them credit for...its more than clear now after...those movies, urgh.
The funny thing is that he'll use every opportunity to joke the DCEU because it's low-hanging fruit but fails to see that Disney Star Wars is just as bad.
DCEU is already better than Disney Star Wars for having a fucking plan from the get go.
And I will always prefer over Snyder's flawed stylized tone than the generic shit we get from Disney.
In a way TROS ended up being a highly retarded adaptation of Dark Empire anyway.
A retarded adaptation of a retarded story to begin with.
But hey, I guess I can say that the heroes do come out ontop in Dark Empire still. Cant say that in TROS
- Skywalker bloodline wiped out
- Palpatine bloodline lives on
- The latter steals the name of the former
- Han, Luke and Leia are all dead
- They were failures in life, all three of them.
- Rey possibly has Sheev within her because there was nothing that established that he didnt so eventually we might legit see Dark Rey arise and bring a new age of the Sith while the order is quite literally wiped out. Luke truly was the last jedi.
You legit cant say that this is the conclusion that was decades in the making, and even Disney know they messed up by the sheer lack of Sequel Trilogy material and now going from OT pandering to PT pandering.
And that was probably one of the more infamous series in the EU, introducing the Yuuzhan Vong, dropping a moon on Chewbacca, and generally taking a darker turn than most fans were used to.
NGL, they were something straight out of mass effect...such bizarre enemies that I still wonder if Disney will ever bother reintroducing...I mean, they werent exactly a great idea to begin with but a lot of fans are quite attached to them...
Oh who am I kidding, of course they will screw them up if they appear.
It's my opinion that the streaming service model killed the incentive to actually make a quality show, because now shitty show runners can just parasitically feed off of superior programs and nobody has the ability to tell them that their show is performing terribly because they're averaged in with everyone else's show.
For the record, they could totally count watch time hours and view counts like Youtube if they really wanted, they just don't.
Streaming services were never meant to replace television, only shit like blockbuster or something. The covid pandemic gave it an unnatural and artificial boom when these plataforms just werent ready for this sort of dependency. They just havent figured out how it all should work.
Meanwhile he's just spouting cliche lines like "the years have made you weak" and "you should have killed me when you had the chance" while Jake Kenobi stumbles away like a little bitch
You know, the moment he ran away, this began playing in my head
KENOBI VS VADER
THE REMATCH OF THE CENTURY
WATCH AS KENOBI BRAVELY RUNS FOR HIS LIFE LIKE A LITTLE BITCH AND VADER AWWW...WALKS AND SOMEHOW CATCHES UP LIKE HE IS JASON VOORHEES
STARE AT AWE AS OBI-WAN BARELY PUTS UP A FIGHT AND VADER TOYS WITH HIM LIKE AN EDGY IDIOT INSTEAD OF GOING FOR THE KILL LIKE HE REALISTICALLY WOULD
CONTAIN YOUR EXCITEMENT AS VADER CEASES WHAT COULD BE HIS FINAL CHANCE AT GETTING KENOBI BY JUST STANDING THERE AND WATCHING BECAUSE HE IS AFRAID of some...fire...? Okay, who wrote this shit?
JAKE KENOBI VS DARTH MEH-DER
