Sorry. I didn’t understand any of that.
These might help if you’re open to understanding a creative mindset:
No, apart from the slighted insult I didn’t understand any of what you wrote there either.
Those videos won’t help me somehow now enjoy the Prequels either.
Why would anyone want to watch YouTube videos, linked from someone who continually insults those don’t like the Prequel films, to somehow now be able to now enjoy the Prequels years after they were released?
“It’s not my intention to make you suddenly love them like I do but merely to give you the tools to understand them through the intentions of the collective whole as George intended and what it means to be visually literate.”
Again, you assume that people who don’t like these films don’t understand them? That they require additional information or tools to do that? (And not that we already have this knowledge, do understand them, and decided we didn’t like them regardless. Huh!). That we for some reason also need to “understand the intentions of the collective whole as George intended”?
George said all “these films were made for 10 years olds”, they don’t actually require that much understanding. In storytelling and film making: Show - don’t tell. If the films can’t stand alone on their own two feet they’ve got problems. All the additional series & videos, blogs, articles, PR pieces and links for years on end won’t change whether you enjoyed the films or not. It does certainly highlight the attitude and superiority complex of the Prequel fans who believe those who didn’t enjoy the films somehow don’t understand them, need such additional materials or “tools” or to “understand the intentions of the collective whole as George intended”.
George can’t even remember his own intentions - or keep his own story straight. It is probably why he has been caught out in his lies, retcons and time-travelling so often. Or placing blame at the feet of others for his own lies or shortcomings (including the exclusion or playing down the roles and contributions of others to the SWU). I’m 63 years old and was lucky to see Star Wars in the cinema, the other Originals, and the many other releases, but I also remember the lies, retcons and bullshit from George over the years. Despite this, many years have passed and I’m still a fan of both Star Wars and George, but I also don’t like or enjoy everything Star Wars related. If that includes the Prequels that is perfectly okay.
Let’s say you don’t like Doritos. And there are plenty of others chips out there to enjoy. Do you think watching YouTube videos about Doritos will somehow make yourself now enjoy them? Will reading and listening to what the creator of Doritos says about Doritos what his “intentions and how successfully they achieved what they set out to do” make me now like the Doritos chips?
Let’s say you don’t like a film you saw 20 years ago. You didn’t like it and have no intention of watching it again, life is short and there are far more films to watch. Do you think watching YouTube videos about the film you didn’t like 20 years ago will somehow make yourself now enjoy it? (or watching YouTube videos on “Video Literacy” will change your opinion of not liking the film?) Will reading and listening to what the creator of of the film says about it and what his “intentions and how successfully they achieved what they set out to do” make me now enjoy the films?
Of course not.
Instead you could have asked what aspects of the films people here did enjoy, or thought were positive. Talk about that, but it now is a little late after you’ve insulted, lectured and patronized them.
As posted previously, there seems little point in continuing this discussion with you, if nothing else but to not further derail this thread. I apologize to everyone if I have derailed the thread or if anyone does not agree with my posts, and I’ll refrain from further posting in here.
If you’d like some recommended reading for a fuller understanding of the actual history of Star Wars (beyond the Prequels; George’s supposed “intentions”, and the cherry-picked & ret-conned “official history”), and haven’t already read these yet, then The Secret History Of Star Wars, Dale Pollock’s Skywalking, and some of the pinned threads on here, are all most informative and may help you see things from a different point of view.