Monroville said:Octorox said:No offense but I completely despise TheoOdo's idea. The point of the prequels is to show the glory day's of the old republic and how they came to an end. There needs to be a huge but gradual shift in attitude and style from TPM to ANH. To have the Jedi and the Republic already laughable Day 1 does not show that.
The problem is that these films take place 18 years at best before ANH. I mean we are talking The Fall of the Roman Empire here, with the Republic on it's last legs. There is nothing to say that you cannot show some of that glory (as either the Jedi or Senate/Nobility enjoy themselves with feasts and the like), but the overall heyday has been gone for 100s of years at this point.
- again, we can blame Lucas for this: there was nothing stopping him from making a set of movies that spanned 100 years and lead to Anakin's character through say his father and grandfather - think of something along the lines of THE GODFATHER at least when it comes to showing the generational side of things and how what Marlin Brando's character did (when played by Robert DeNiro) that affected his family by the time he was old. Alas, this is simply Anakin's story.
Also, it is the Federation that is implying they are a joke, not that they actually ARE a joke. As in: the Federation is akin to a competing Empire/Republic and much as we fought a cold war with the Soviets, the fighting is going to go the whole range of shootouts to insults, subtle or blunt.
Well it's a movie. Time can easily be compressed or stretched in a movie. It's the symbolism and emotion that matters,not whether it takes place over 20 years or 200 years. Anyway, thing change a lot more quickly today than they did hundreds of years ago. Who's to say that with Star Wars's technology, attitudes and cultures change even more quickly? I'm not a freak for continuity or real world "sense" as long as things make emotional and symbolic sense. Star Wars is fantasy, it doesn't have to be 100% logical.