Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
Why were they called that, anyway? Didn't people ever reallize that they were episodes of a series, even if they were 4, 5, and 6? I mean, why in the hell did people once refer to Episode IV as simply "Star Wars?" And then people called the next two by their subtitles. Huh?
Why were they called that, anyway? Didn't people ever reallize that they were episodes of a series, even if they were 4, 5, and 6? I mean, why in the hell did people once refer to Episode IV as simply "Star Wars?" And then people called the next two by their subtitles. Huh?
The same reason people used to call Cassius Clay by that name- because before he changed it that WAS his name. As many of us mentioned elsewhere the movie I saw on my birthday in 1977 was called 'Star Wars' and nothing else. The crawl didn't even reflect 'A New Hope' at all until the re-release, and then it was basically considered kind of a serial-referencial 'joke'. And granted most sequels are referred to by just the number (not many people would know 'The Quest For Peace' as a subtitle by itself by they might know a 'Superman 4' was made.) Further as I've quoted elsewhere from IMDB when the 'Star Wars' sequels were released they were NOT officially titled 'Episode 5 and 6' but merely 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi'. Audiences really didn't *care* that there were 'episode' numbers as part of a grander scheme and most of the bazillions of people who saw the Star Wars trilogy was sure it was over with ROTJ and didn't care past that point.