imperialscum said:
Erikstormtrooper said:
I'm gonna go against the grain here and say the overall stories of the prequels weren't that bad. Lucas's general ideas were good as first drafts, but he just needed some "no men" to come in and fine-tune things.
I just don't see how is making the main character one of the most annoying and repulsive characters in film history a good idea. No matter what you build on that idea, it won't make it good.
Yes but it's the fine detail of the dialogue that makes him annoying, not the concept. There is nothing inherently annoying about Anakin racing pods. It's just he should have been a dashing young (Late teen?) Ayrton Senna type podracer, instead of a 9 year old doofus.
Again if battledroids were treated like a real threat by the rest of the characters, then they would be. Stormtroopers never pose any actual threat in the OT but because we see Han, Leia and Luke running, ducking and desperately trying to escape from them they come off as really dangerous.
Again if you watch how Hamill defects blaster shots on Jabba's skiff it looks like he's really in danger because he conveys that through his performance. But in the OT the Jedi just look half-bored deflecting the Droids blasts, like they are swatting away flies. Throw in a couple of shots of Kenobi looking sh*t scared of the Battledroids and you've got something very different.
Broadly speaking... it's the execution, not the concept that is at fault.
