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Post #608260

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zombie84
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Michael Arndt heavily involved in writing the new SW trilogy
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Date created
16-Nov-2012, 11:26 PM

I can settle this. Which trilogy is more popular?

The trilogy that features a retired Jedi in one film (Kenobi), and an instructor Jedi in another film (Yoda), and basically no Jedi in the third film (Kenobi and Yoda dead, Luke not a Jedi until the end)?

OR

The trilogy that features hundreds of Jedi, often all onscreen at once (Clone Wars), with many of the main characters being Jedi or Padawans in the Official Jed Training Program (Mace Windu, Kenobi, Anakin, Yoda, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Qui Gon Jin, and many others in supporting roles), where one of the re-appearing locations is the Jedi Temple, and where issues surrounding the Jedi order and how it operates and it's future are constantly being discussed?

There is actually an inverse relationship to the popularity of the Star Wars trilogies and how much Jedi figure into them. The original trilogy wasn't much about Jedi, and everyone loves it and wants to see more of it. The prequel trilogy was almost exclusively about Jedi, in almost every scene, and it sucked and no one wants to see any more of that. If anyone is excited for the sequel trilogy it's because it's a sequel to the original trilogy, not because it's connected to the prequels in any way. And there is no reason why they need to be. I expect them to reference the prequels once in a while and perhaps include some things introduced there, I guess; but there is no reason why they have to be similar to them or heavily connected to them, especially when they aren't popular.

Part of the lesson of the 6-episode series that we have is that the Jedi were idiots and were corrupted, and Luke succeeds because he DOESN'T follow their tradition. He rejects a lot of their fundamentals, like being older, being attached to people, etc. and becomes the greatest Jedi because he focuses on his attachment and that love is what saves him and heals the galaxy. He stands poised as a reformer who can re-shape the new Jedi order to be different than the flawed one of the past and break with their silly rules and traditions, so it makes sense from a story point of view that the prequel influence not be felt strongly.