OBI-WAN37 said:
There isn't really that much that needs to be avoided in the prequels at all. We need to avoid avoiding them, which doesn't seem to be happening with the crew behind the movies so far, which is just a HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE.....
Several new Death Stars are built
....HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE injustice.
And thanks God for that. My hopes for the new films is that they ignore the prequels completely. Disney/ Lucasfilm seem to be starting down that route already. Cancelling the PT era show, moving away from heavy reliance on CG and digital filming, merchandise more concentrated on the OT era, etc etc. Lucas had a hard-on for the prequels and that all we got; prequels crap this and prequel crap that. The only saving grace was the Clone Wars cartoon series which, thankfully, was run by others and NOT George (even though you could see when he was heavily involved with certain stories)
The OT is almost universally loved by SW fans; the Prequels almost universally hated by SW fans. There is no injustice that they would move away from those films. None at all. To have the new films anything like the prequels or to be influenced by them would be suicide for the franchise. Disney/ Lucasfilm NEED to make a good film if they have any hope of recouping their investment. Another film like the prequels is going to lose even more fans. But even the hardened prequelites/ Lucaslovers/ are threatening to ignore the films just because they may change the EU or ignore the prequels or just for the fact that it isn't going to be a George Lucas film. And, to be honest, i say good riddance.
The prequels were nowhere near as successful as the OT was. Forget what the top whatever lists say, they don't take into consideration how much ticket costs have risen ( well one site does). How many people actually went to see those movies. AOTC is almost out of the top 100 with ROTS not too far behind it. TPM is the only one even close to the OT in the charts and that was probably down to the fact that it was an new Star Wars film after all those years without anything. Only a handful of die hard SW fans went to see AOTC & ROTS more than once.
The prequels are like that relative who the family hates. You know they are a part of the family but you know it's best to avoid them like the plague