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Post #590475

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hairy_hen
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How would a Star Wars reboot do?
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18-Aug-2012, 7:13 AM

Rebooting/remaking the films is an utterly terrible idea.

The prequels and special editions already rebooted the story, anyway, and it no longer has anything to do with what it used to be about.  If you want to change it away from what it is now, going back to the original versions and disregarding the revisionism is enough of a 'reboot' on its own, because it lets you view it in a completely different context than the one Lucas has tried to shoehorn the films into.  No prophecies, no midichlorians, no celibate Jedi, no 'Tragedy of Darth Vader'; none of that nonsense.

This way, Star Wars is 'The Adventures of Luke Skywalker', as it was meant to be from the beginning.  And that's all anyone who understands good storytelling really needs.