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Post #1675324

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JadedSkywalker
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Which one do you like more? The Prequels or the Sequels? And why?
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21-Jan-2026, 6:13 PM

I pictured a different movie in my head from watching the OT. along with all the outside pre prequel lore. I don’t know if I hate the prequels, but they aren’t the movie I pictured. the slow seduction to evil. Vader hunting down and destroying the Jedi. the Clone Wars. I got almost nothing as expected.

You make assumptions based on the movies we had, like of course Yoda will be Obi-Wan’s master he says so in the Empire Strikes Back.

As much as I hate or dislike the handling of the legacy characters in the sequel trilogy I can just reject them and read my expanded universe novels. The prequel needs a page 1 rewrite to fit the lore of the unaltered OT.

It’s very obviously it was all made up on the fly and the Saga of Darth Vader is a lie. Its a valiant and creative way to alter the trajectory of the Saga and rejigger it to have always been about Vader but for me it does not work. Star Wars from the adventures of Luke Skywalker.

The only part that sort of fits with Lucas ideas and goes back to the 70s is Ben and Vader fighting over a lava pit.

Almost nothing from the 1980s prequels ideas survived into the prequels. If you read the Rinzler book on the making of Return of the Jedi, anyone can use the force and Yoda is like a Yoga master guru. No mention of a lightsaber wielding Yoda.

No mention of mutant magic blood. Midichlorians. No chosen ones. No forbidden love. No doctrine of attachment.