DominicCobb said:
Bingowings said:
It would also have kept ESB's reveals secret.
I know that's not important to some people but the PT weren't actually sold as 'prequels' but earlier episodes.
I've been vocal about my disagreement with this line of thinking. I've been ignoring these types of comments because, honestly, people aren't going to change their minds. But I just don't see how that statement is true.
Granted, I was born only a few years before TPM was released, so I'm not aware of what sort of things were being said about the prequels during that 16 year gap. What I do know is that each PT film was advertised using as much Vader imagery as possible, i.e. they were sold as prequels. I remember that awesome poster of Anakin with Vader as his shadow; and I'm sure you all do too, it's probably the thing that got your excitement up most. What that ad promised was a prequel. A prequel trilogy was promised to us. Call me crazy, but I thought the whole reason we wanted to see those movies was to find out what happened before. I don't know about you guys, but the prospect of finding out how Anakin became Darth Vader was the single most exciting aspect of those upcoming prequels. People have said on here that ROTS was a fan wank because they showed Anakin turn to the dark side and don the suit. In my mind, it would have been a fan wank if we didn't see that happen.
But I digress. Where are we? "ROTJ is the best Star Wars film"? What? You guys are crazy, I'm out of here.
I didn't care about story when I first saw Episode 1. It was simply a new Star Wars movie, and an expansion of the Star Wars universe. That was the draw for me as a young teen, not the story of Darth Vader. I already knew that he began as Anakin Skywalker, a hero and the greatest pilot in the galaxy. I didn't need to be shown that stuff or his turn to the Dark Side to be interested in the movies. The reason I lost interest after Episode 2 was because the universe and story seemed so poorly constructed that it couldn't exist alongside the originals, or even Episode 1. If they had just told an original non-Anakin story and made the movie with the same effort that Episode 1 was created with, I would have been happy. I think you only do damage when you tread on people's imaginations.