I don’t understand how George Lucas is getting all the breaks now for his “originality” while Rian Johnson is hated for doing exactly what haters of TFA asked.
This is what RJ possibly “ruined” about Star Wars:
- Luke’s ultimate fate is sit around moaning about his failure before he returns to form and sacrifices himself.
- You can now hyperspace attack.
- Animal cruelty exists in Star Wars.
Compared to the PT:
- Anakin wasn’t a brave warrior, he was a creep.
- The Jedi were idiots.
- Padmé died of a broken heart.
- Stormtroopers are clones of Boba Fett’s father.
- There’s a ton of weird names.
- It’s potentially racist (likely accidental).
- The Jedi Purge happened in a day.
- Anakin built C-3PO and knew R2.
- Anakin knew about Uncle Owen but never checked up on him.
Yes, TLJ is way worse than the PT! /s I can see the argument TFA is the worst one, although I beg to differ, but I don’t understand how RJ gets SW worse than GL.
George Lucas has definitely been getting a rose-tinted-glasses treatment lately. Undeservedly so, in my opinion. Credit for creating and directing the original Star Wars, but beyond that his work really hasn’t been very good. Just think how boring the Empire Strikes Back would have been if it were written and directed by George Lucas.
Here is the problem with that line of thinking. The Lucas that created the OT, the Indiana Jones trilogy, amongst other things, is not the same guy who created the PT many years later. People change. That doesn’t invalidate their past achievements. Just look at the 4th Indy film. That was directed by Spielberg, but despite this fact, wasn’t able to recapture the magic of the past. Does this make Spielberg a hack, or should the quality of his past work be credited to his collaborators? Should we list all the boring self-important songs written by once great aging song writers, who in their prime wrote the soundtracks of our youth, and past generations? Lucas deserves all the credit for the classics he created along with the collaborators he chose to work with. He was and is one of the great visionary filmmakers of the 20th century, and even his less than stellar prequels have been influencial on a purely technical level. As fun and engaging as the Disney era may be to many, we should not forget, that the current creators do not develop these films and series from whole cloth. As irked as some may still be about Lucas and his PT & SE the current creators have only grown so tall by standing on the shoulders of giants.