Originally posted by: CO
LOTR is a perfect example of a movie trilogy that flows fluidly because it was planned that way from the books to the big screen, as they honestly feel like one big movie instead of 3 individual movies like the OT.

In the Lord of the Rings case it is three movies based off of one book. So it makes sense for that to work.

Really the "challenes" of writing a tight trilogy is bunk. Seriously, how many series have you watched or read that contradict themselves as bad as the SW saga does. It isn't that hard to write stories that work together. I'll admit prequels are a little more tricky than sequels, but honestly, there is no excuse for such blatant plot holes.

Anybody see that part on the ROTS DVD where Rick McCullum admits that they had to go back and refilm the scene with Obi-Wan picking up Anakin's lightsabre because "we kind of forgot he gave it to Luke in the next film." How do you kind of forget something like that? It show exactly how much Lucas had invested in these things while writing them. Pretty clear he really didn't care too much. I bet Lucas didn't even bother to go back and watch the OT before writing the PT. He should have been refering to the final scripts of each of the OT constantly as he wrote the PT.