C3PX said:Yeah, it's brilliant! If only they could have had some halfway decent actors to pull it off...
the problem that will never be solved, is that
nobody can agree what the story should have been like..
some claim that the PT isn't as 'epic' as the original trilogy (despite
all the retcons, inconsistencies, and flaws that exist in it th e OT also)..
lucas faces a no-win situation, you can't please the old fans, because
it wouldn't 'match' what he wanted for the PT, and of course the people
that like the PT sometimes find the OT clunky, slow, and outdated....
you can't have your cake both ways, and eat it to..
i hear a lot of complaints (skyjedi2005, and vaderisnothayden) that nothing past
1983 is worthy of being star wars, or 'canon' etc.....
well that leaves a huge void doesn't it? who is supposed to write the story?
who's supposed to act it out? who's supposed to direct? do the music?
i don't think we could even find a majority of people on this site that could agree
on how it should have been handled? some like the EU stuff, others hate it,
same with the 'clone wars' (mixed opinions).......
it's pretty easy to criticize something that exists without supplying any kind of
alternate or substitute...yeah, you could say, just film the 'thrawn trilogy', or
just do episodes 7-9, and include the OT characters.... yeah, well someone
has to write it, and even stories from the EU that included the OT characters
aren't all liked universally....
do you really want to see han and leia married with kids? luke getting old?
chewbacca dying? i don't know.... i'd rather see the time periods inbetween
episode 3 and 4. or even the short time periods between 4-5 and 5-6....
be careful what you wish for..
later
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