StarkillerAG said:
The term “Skywalker Saga” may have been officially embraced during the marketing of TROS, but it’s been around since the prequels: This thread called the movies the “Skywalker Saga” all the way back in 2005. No matter what it’s called though, there’s always been a sense of inflated importance given to the mainline “saga” movies, and I feel removing the episode titles would help reduce that.
So some of the people here called it that unofficially on occasion, in quotation marks because they knew it was a nickname and wasn’t actually what everyone called it. People say it now like it’s a normal thing because of the marketing.
Who are you worried about having this inflated sense of importance? Do you think that there are hypothetical people out there that are afraid to watch Rogue One or something because it doesn’t have an episode title? (I was going to say a number in the name but it does have one lol)
Also they probably should have greater importance. That’s where everything comes from, after all. I think the main thing that frustrates of all of us is that the sequels attached themselves into the 7, 8, and 9 slots that didn’t need to exist in the first place, and seemed to drag everything else down with them. And the contrast gets heightened when you see how poor they are compared to Rogue One and Solo coming out at the same time as mere spinoffs (plus The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian of course.) But we don’t have to accept that. We can just ignore them. No one had any problem before saying “okay, The Clone Wars is set in between episodes 2 and 3.”
The idea of episode numbers in general may have been inspired by serials, but I don’t think Lucas ever intended to not make Episodes 1, 2, and 3: Although his plans for post-ROTJ movies fluctuated constantly, he always said that he would make a trilogy set before the OT later on. He even specifically told the EU writers not to set any of their works before the rise of the Empire (except for the Tales of the Jedi comics), since it would contradict his upcoming trilogy covering those events. It was only with the advent of high-quality CGI in the mid-90s that Lucas decided it was finally feasible to show his concept of the Clone Wars in live-action, with the Special Editions being used as a tech demo for some of the things he was planning to do.
I don’t think this is really true, but it’s hard to tell with Lucas. There were materials (the Thrawn books for one) that introduced certain concepts about the Clone Wars and other things that got contradicted later. Tales of the Jedi itself shows the Jedi much differently (superior in my opinion) from what the prequels do.