What was your impression of the prequels before they announced the PT? — Page 2

TV’s Frink said:

yotsuya said:

I guess I don’t hate the prequels quite as much because they were pretty much everything I had expected them to be.

You sure had low expectations.

No, they covered the story I expected, but they weren’t as good as I had hoped.

The love story was very classic Hollywood - not quite forced, but not quite natural.

Hmmm, no. It was one of the most forced “romances” in the history of film.

Then you haven’t watched enough classic movies.

Sounds reasonable.

Literally only months passed between the time I watched the entire OT and the release of TPM, so I didn’t have a whole lot of time to build a cohesive headcanon of the PT timeline before it was disrupted. Regardless, I had come up with some hard concepts:

• Anakin was older than nine years old when Ben discovered him
• Anakin had black hair
• Anakin’s wife (who wasn’t a queen or a senator) had red hair
• Luke & Leia were born before Anakin turned to the dark side and raised by their biological parents on Tatooine for the first years of their life
• The clones in the eponymous Clone Wars were proto-stormtroopers who fought against the Jedi and the Republic
• The Mandalorians were a secondary enemy force who participated in the Clone Wars and were wiped out by the Jedi
• The Empire already existed with Palpatine as its emperor before Anakin’s turn to the dark side
• Anakin deliberately killed his own wife
• The Great Jedi Purge spanned a number of years before Anakin fought Ben, fell into a volcano, and became Darth Vader
• Hand-held blaster technology wasn’t invented until the rise of the Empire

Interesting take on things.