Easterhay said:

zombie84 said:

Hmm, reusing the same ideas, themes, situations and images from previous movies in later sequels to said movies while also taking them in new and different directions. How novel. Know what they call that in the real world?

A franchise.

Hmmm. I've read your stuff, including the big deal you make of the numerous rewrites Lucas made before settling on a final screenplay (because we all know everyone uses their first drafts all the time. Ho, and indeed, hum.) and I see you're still making a meal of Lucas using recurring themes in the films to create a kind of symmetry and to show how two people can go on the same journey and make decisions that take them in opposite directions.

Tell me, how many other franchises have done this? Y'know, telling a story in two halves, thirty years apart, and yet still ensuring mahoosive worldwide success?

It is interesting Luke and Anakin pretty much being archetypal heroes who take virtually the same path in the beginning, but Lucas really botched things with clones and sith.

In other words an interesting premise, executed rather poorly. With another writer polishing the script and another director, or directors maybe this concept would have been used in a manner that created real drama and interest, instead of a joke.

Imagine if clones and sith were like the reversal of empire strikes back, and you see Anakin stating out with good intentions then slowly seduced by power, and the desire for power to do good, before he is corrupted.