xhonzi said:
On the one hand you say: How hard is it to screw up the Prequels? And yet George Lucas, the originator of Star Wars, managed to do just that!
And then you try to do what he should have done, and you find yourself tempted to or actually making the same mistakes he made. It gives you a little more sympathy for how rotten the final product is and how it got that way. I can't say that it makes me like them more, but I appreciate the challenge of doing it more.
I do have some appreciation for the amount of work that would need to be done. It is hard to write something like that. I am trying to do something as good as the OT, which is taking some serious work.
The OT is so good because of how fresh it is. I have to make a story that is up to par with the OT, but I am also forced to use things from PT that I don't want, because it will contradict the OT. Star Wars was genius, and no matter how highly I think of my self, I ain't no genius.
I really want to tell a good story, but I just don't think it is going to be as fast paced as the OT. I can't avoid leaving the politics out of it.