doubleKO said:
CO, I edited my last reply to you with an apology and a couple of questions about Empire/Jedi. Here is just the edit:
edit: Sorry I shouldn't be flippant with you CO as you are one of the fans that I was looking for. I just didn't really want the PT brought into it. Do you watch Jedi at all? Are you satisfied with Empire as a conclusion to a two-part saga? Or do you just get to the end of Empire and go "Meh I remember...Rancor, Jabba, skimpy Leia, Death Star, Ewoks, Lightsabers, explosion. Been there, done that."?
I honestly watch the OT movies as standalone movies, because whenever I try to watch them as a 'Saga/6 movies' or 'Trilogy/3 movies' it has never worked.
The reason I am like this is I grew up watching the movies on HBO way before I had a VCR to watch them together. SW came to HBO in '83, so I watched that a zillion times on its own. ESB came to HBO in '86, and I watched that a zillion times on it own. Same with Jedi in '88, as I had a VCR by then, but didn't buy the trilogy til 'one last time in 1994.'
I never really thought of them as 'one big story' even in the trilogy days. Sorry, but this is the biggest failing of Lucas because I saw Star Wars in the context of how it was told in 1977, and Lucas keep changing and changing the story, there are just too many inconsistencies. If I watch each movie on its own and in the context of how that movies was made, then they work alot better.
When Jedi is on Spike, I will usually tune in and out for certain parts: Sail Barge, Throne Room Scenes, Dagobah, Vaders entrance at the beginning. But I can't remember the last time I sat down and watched it on DVD, probably a few years ago. (I think 2007 or 2008) Whereas I will watch Star Wars and Empire whenever I get time to watch a DVD.
What I meant by the PT affecting Jedi was more on the level that it opened my eyes that Lucas was loosing it in '83. (I also love Raiders but think Temple of Doom and Crusade are OK and Crystal Skulls is unwatchable). The PT story doesn't affect anything about Jedi to me, but after seeing the quality of PT movies, it made more sense why Jedi is sub-par to Star Wars and Empire.