doubleofive said:
There can be no "prequel person" response to this.

There will be - but only because TFN members are the fans who think & believe whatever Lucas tells them to think & believe. I've perused the forum a few times over the years. The level of denial and delusion is disturbing. But I digress....

doubleofive said:
You cannot defend a movie without a protagonist, introduction, plot, or sense. As weird as some of the off topic wanderings, you can't ignore that every point he made was right on the money, though maybe could have been put more eloquently.

In a nutshell, that's the reaction I had to Phantom when I saw it. It had no core and no direction. It made very little sense and was (for me) very uninteresting. It felt & looked like a bunch of ideas that never made it past the rough outline stage - as though Lucas just filmed his own hand-written ideas & notes, with no idea of how to connect them - or the realization that some of them shouldn't have been kept.

It seemed more like a bunch of vaguely related vignettes hooked together. For me, there was no emotional involvement what so ever. The fact that the acting was laughably bad certainly didn't help either.

I agree with Double0 also that this video would be taken much more seriously and have more impact if it were polished. It's a touch too home made to generate the kind of discussions it's capable of. However, it is right on the money in it's assessment.