doubleofive said:
You know, I no longer look at Jar Jar as the downfall of Star Wars anymore. It's the rest of the stuff that's so bad.
- The small universe: Chewie and Yoda being BFFs was the last straw
- The lazy ties to the OT
- The things that were simple facts in the OT are now lies or stretches of the truth:
Uncle Owen never thought Anakin should have stayed and not gotten involved, Leia couldn't have remembered her real mother, Obi-wan never directly served Leia's father in the Clone Wars, Yoda wasn't the Jedi Master who instructed Obi-wan
- and more, I'm sure.
Agreed with all of this, and let me just add the fact that George never can figure out if he actually wants these to be prequels or not.
Let's remember (as a lot of people misuse this term) that prequel is short for pre-sequel. It is a sequel that chronologically comes before its predecessors. And George sucks the teets of that premise for all its worth. "Hey, look, it's C3PO as a young, naked man! I remember him from the original movies!" "Hey, look, it's Chewbacca hanging out with Yoda! I remember them from the original movies!" "Hey, look, it's that ship Darth Vader walked onto in the original movie!" "Hey, look, it's the Death Star from the original movie!" The prequels hardly have any life to them that's not leaching from the original films, yet...
George would rather you believe they're not prequels in the first place and instead are just literally the first three movies of the Star Wars saga... totally undermining every ridiculous in-joke and reference he makes in them!
YOU NO MAKE SENSE, LUCAS!!!!