Fan_edit_fan said:
You’re coming across as ultra defensive and also that you weren’t alive then…or aware then. So since you obviously weren’t around for the release of the PT then sit down and chill out. Love the PT all you want.
I’m not ultra-defensive. I just find it annoying that there are people who try to portray the Prequel hate from the early 2000s as something acceptable and understandable, and who even deny the existence of Prequel fans before 2015. The Prequel hate from the early 2000s brought actors like Ahmed Best to almost commit suicide, not to mention the hundreds of death threats that Hayden Christensen received. Trying to defend the Prequel backlash of the time (or even reducing it to simple “criticism”) is intellectually dishonest, in my opinion. Of course, you can criticize the Prequels all you want. Hell, I criticize some aspects of the Prequels too (despite liking them for the most part). But you can’t deny that the level of hate and backlash they received was unnecessary, toxic, and sometimes even borderline insane.
Fan_edit_fan said:
I think it’s cruel you showed the movies in chronological order haha. You ruin the surprises of the OT.
The Vader twist from The Empire Strikes Back is something that almost the entire planet knows at this point, though. Even people who never saw Star Wars in their lives know that Darth Vader is Luke’s father. It is something that has become intrinsically part of pop culture. So I don’t think I’m ruining anything. Virtually every single person who interacted with pop culture know that. From my experience, there are more people who don’t know that Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader than people who don’t know that Darth Vader is Luke’s father. Also, the chronological order is the order George Lucas told us to watch the movies, and there is a reason for that. Watching the Original Trilogy first gives you a different perception than watching the Prequel Trilogy first. Not to mention, I’m a meticulous person, so I always like to do things chronologically.
Fan_edit_fan said:
And on the other hand I DON’T believe you that they liked the PT more 🤷♂️.
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. I didn’t say that my friends liked the Prequels more than the Original Trilogy. I only said that they appreciated the Prequels more than the people who watched the movies in release order tend to do, precisely due to the fact that they watched the Prequels first.