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Post #628271

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
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Top lingering questions you want answered in Sequel trilogy?
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19-Mar-2013, 5:11 PM

Bingowings said:

That's what Star Trek is meant to be for.

Exploring an expanding universe.

Star Wars is space opera.

It's conflict focussed on a series of characters who are to some degree related to each other (like real Earth Opera without the singing).

No.  The 1-2-3-4-5-6 "saga" is a space opera.  More specifically, the 4-5-6 sub-segment is a pretty good space opera, and the 1-2-3 sub-segment is a crappy space opera.

BUT, in my personal opinion, Star Wars (SW-the movie- the movie subsequently known as IV, to use "Prince" lingo) is an expanding universe, told through the eyes of a boy.  That's what made it so intriguing.  It started becoming an opera in ESB, but it still had the expanding universe feel - particularly with the travel to meet Yoda, the exotic new planets, etc - heck we didn't even revisit Tatooine!

It was the conversion to a full-blown saga/opera when things started falling apart, and ultimately became boring and crappy.  Star Wars needs to get back to what made it great.