Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones

Originally posted by: grifter

Originally posted by: CO
How did this happen?

simple! in the OT you had an awesome combination of talents: Kurtz, Kasdan, Brackett, Kershner and the help of Huyck and Katz on the screenplay of ANH (wow! lots of "K" names!) on the PT Lucas was almost all by himself...'nuff said!

Exactly!

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It is a shame, cause I can always enjoy any SW film, even a PT movie. But after finally watching all 6 of them together you really see a huge contrast in the overall style of each trilogy. Now as I said, this has nothing to do with the story or the characters or even 'what I wanted in the PT', it is about execution. It isn't even about being biased towards the OT, cause I find faults in ROTJ that I don't in ANH & ESB. But the PT is just loaded with so many bad moments that it really outshines the good moments, and the OT never had that effect on me while watching it.

I guess you are right that Lucas ran EVERTHING in the PT, and nobody is great at everything. Lucas to me is a great storyteller, and if you like the PT or not, he did have a vision for this story and stuck by it, and does come up with different worlds that make the movies interesting. Now with a different director and a screenwriter for the 3 movies, who knows how much better they would have been. Who knows how minor a role Jar Jar could have been in TPM, and a much more adult tone too. Who knows how much better the love story could have been in AOTC. And who knows if I would have felt more empathy for these characters that Lucas failed to do for 3 movies. I guess that will always be my personal shoulda, coulda, woulda.

I guess it is just too hard for me to marry these two trilogies and see them as one saga when you love one trilogy, and kinda enjoy the other, probably because it has the name Star Wars plastered in front of it.