Originally posted by:Jumpman

He did mention that if he ever would go back and tell the backstory that they would be different in tone and style. But, he didn't have it all planned out. He had the highlights in outline form as CO said.
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See, I never had a problem with the PT being a different style and tone than the OT, but Lucas wanted it both ways with the PT. I always thought the PT should have been dead serious from the start, and even to the point that it doesn't cater to kids at all. Now of course you are going to lose market share for the box office gross, but who cares, movies that cater to kids don't age well when kids are not kids anymore. Just ask alot of people like me who loved ROTJ in 1983, and now think it is average.

The first ten minutes of TPM are what the tone of the PT should have, I love ObiWan and QuiGon in that first shot. Then they get to Naboo and meet Jar Jar, and the whole seriousness of the movies is gone. The PT should have staunch and political, but not cater to kids with Jar Jar humor and C3PO lame humor on Geonosis with his head getting pulled around during the FUCKIN CLONE WARS!!!!!

ROTS is the only Prequel that has the right mix of humor in it, it has about 3 minutes R2D2 humor in the beginning, but not too over the top, and then it gets serious for the rest of the movie, even though the dramatic parts are pretty bad like the turn and Padme losing the will to live, but that is another issue.

The problem with the PT and parts of ROTJ, is Lucas is trying to cater to every audience out there, and that is why all the films come off as very serious at times, and very juvenile at others. And yes, he is genius cause the PT movies grossed a shit load of money in that respect, but looking at the movies now, you wonder what TPM would be like without Jar Jar, or a hugely toned down Jar Jar. The one thing I love about ANH & ESB is they are not made for the kiddies, and they don't talk down to them either. Kiddies like me in 1977 jumped on the bandwagon, but not until the Ewoks did Lucas start to really go after my age group. And look how the Ewoks have aged in 22 years.