Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I don't mind that the secrets are given away in the prequels simply because we're not supposed to see them first! We watch the OT. All the secrets are revealed over the course of the trilogy. We're enraptured. We think, "Wow. That's all pretty cool. I wonder how that happened?" Enter the prequels. Like in a mystery novel, this is supposed to be the part at the end where the genius detective shows up and says, "And this is how it happened..." going step by step through the process leading up. It's backstory. It exists only to expand on the original stories, not to be stories on their own.
I don't mind that the secrets are given away in the prequels simply because we're not supposed to see them first! We watch the OT. All the secrets are revealed over the course of the trilogy. We're enraptured. We think, "Wow. That's all pretty cool. I wonder how that happened?" Enter the prequels. Like in a mystery novel, this is supposed to be the part at the end where the genius detective shows up and says, "And this is how it happened..." going step by step through the process leading up. It's backstory. It exists only to expand on the original stories, not to be stories on their own.
I totally agree, it isn't the suspense of the prequels that makes them great, but giving the OT a side you never thought of.
I think Lucas did that for Palpatines character being a politician, the stormtroopers come from the clone factory (minus Jango Fett, he should of used someone else), and the turn to the darkside by Anakin, and even where Anakin came from (if that was developed better)
They were all things I didn't expect before I saw the movies. I never had a problem with Anakin turning for Padme, I just think the execution was rushed and just handled badly, and should have been given more time to make it more realistic.
But when Lucas does the checklist at the end of ROTS: Build Vader, check, Yoda learns the force ghost, check, Leia to Alderran, check, Luke to Owen & Beru, check, it is everything I didn't want in the PT. Heck, I could have written the last ten minutes, or any SW junkie could have written, "I'll take Luke to Uncle Owen on Tattoine."
That is where Lucas got lazy, and didn't develop Bail Organa or Uncle Owen who have huge ramifications on the OT. He did alot of things that are paint by numbers in the movies cause he had to. Instead they should have woven into the OT as something that makes you think after it is all said and done, "Man, I never thought of the backstory that way, that makes things alot more interesting in the OT now." Instead I say things to myself, "Why does Leia remember her mom and Luke doesnt?" and "How come Uncle Owen doesn't recognize C-3PO?"
Waste of three good movies.