In all fairness, the PT is far better than anyone gives it credit for. Also iirc it's in the contract that the original cuts can never be rereleased, same with the Holiday Special.
And if I also recall, the deal stipulated that they'd use Lucas' Sequel Treatments. They didn't.
Individual titles still shine depending on the talent behind them, but they're tethered to these half-baked comic book event storylines that derail whatever they’re trying to build. For the better part of two decades, every "event" has been an unmitigated disaster.
My point exactly. Every time there's a spark of creativity, it gets smothered by these comic book events that exist as nothing more but attention-grabbing gas farts.
These events come with promises of lasting consequences, but all they really do is sabotage the books and leave the creative teams scrambling to make sense of it. It's a problem unique to comics, and one that's starting to feel more suffocating with each passing year.
It kills any chance of these stories developing independently, and at the end of the day, the events are retconned the moment it's convenient. It means that people lose interest when the events they saw are no longer canon.
Look at how the old SWEU handled things. Events such as Starkiller pulling down a Star Destroyer, Revan rediscovering his/her identity on the Leviathan, or Kyle Katarn's pupil defeating the great Marka Ragnos are part of Star Wars history. There's no retconning them before Disney showed up, and you were invested in these stories because they were part of a great tapestry. You can say the same thing about manga and anime; Goku turning into a Super Saiyan, Madara Uchiha coming back from the dead and decimating a whole army, and Lalah Sune dying at the hands of Amuro Ray, those events had an impact on series such as DBZ, Naruto, and UC Gundam.
People cared about these stories because they mattered. Hence why they had large fandoms, and when Disney "decanonized" the SWEU, people threw a fit and got mad. You know what the capeshit fans were saying when that happened? "Get used to it, comics get retconned all the time!" The capeshit fans were so used to bad storytelling, to the point where some of them got mad that SW fans were malding over the retcons, because the SWEU fans actually cared about the story, just as much as the manga and anime fans cared about the story for the IPs they loved, because their stories were mostly consistent.
You can't say the same thing about capeshit comics. One moment Batman has no problems killing bad guys, the next, he has a rat up his ass about not killing mass-murdering psychos, because if he does kill, he'll also turn into a mass-murdering psycho. One moment Superman can blow away planets, the next, some punk like Livewire can take him down without Kryptonite. People lose interest in a medium that actually punishes them for paying attention to details; so no shit, most capeshit fans left for the cartoons, movies, and video games based on these characters, because those are more consistent, as opposed to the comics themselves which were inconsistent as fuck.
