Good grief I wouldn't waste a second on Gomer normally. his shtick is to boast about lucas' genius on every star wars forum a "billion times" as some idiot put it when they were trying to make me seem like I'm still posting at TFN which I stopped not only because I was banned (that can't stop me) but because it's just a waste of life arguing how much better the PT could have been.

CO I'm glad you have your head on straight. Basically people who love the OT just don't feel the need to lower their standards to Lucas' level to buy his new toy commercials. That's all it is for me.

It really would have been a better trilogy if Lucas stepped back and cared enough to do better with the actors than the fx, and I wanted it to be and people like gomer of course always make it seem like there are those who never wanted the PT to even exist. Couldn't be more wrong. I just didn't want it to be crap.

All GL had to do was let someone else handle the writing and directing for at least the second and third films. I'll give him Phantom since that story is the least necessary of the PT and could have been dropped so we'd really get into the juicy part of the story in episode 2 and 3. 2's basically like phantom but with less jar jar thankfully, but of course it has those awful soap opera scenes.

Once again all GL had to do was admit he sucks at romances and just hand over the camera to someone else just for those scenes and it might have been better. And don't be so gullible to your kids and give Sam motherfucking Jackson and prominent role because he's sam motherfucking jackson. It's too damn distracting.

Anyway I don't understand how someone who seriously enjoyed the OT's quality could look at the PT and not feel dissapointed by the seriously stupid crap that was allowed to be highlighted (GL looks at story boards and highlights what he wants in the movie vs what he doesn't. He highlighted jar jar all the time...) for those films. It's even worse because it'd be so simple to fix up the bad ideas to make the movies better, and make us care about these boring group of people besides Ewan and Ian who are the best things in all three (a shame ewan wasn't given much to do in the first one).

No one, not you gomer, not lucas himself will convince me Yoda riding Chewie was a good idea. The OT was above this crap (well until the SE)

So JEJ said it best after seeing how far star wars had fallen by the time the PT was over. You know the quote.