Easterhay said:
luckydube56 said:
Stay away from massive metropolis', councils, politics that marked the PT.
Go back to the Old West frontier in outer space atmosphere that characterized the OT.
And please dont flood the galaxy with Jedi. They're too stoic and it made the PT too stoic. Where was the comic relief? Star Wars should be an escape and it should be light hearted and fun. Stay away from the current hollywood trend that a darker mood is better.
Yes, the Jedi were pretty dour in the prequels. A lot of chin-stroking and sitting around. But, then again, if they were based on Buddhist monks then the depiction was spot-on. I always imagined Luke's Jedi would be much different.
As for comic relief, well...Jar Jar? Buzz droids? Threepio losing his head? All in all, the story of Anakin is a tragedy. I don't recall Macbeth being chock full of hilarious one-liners.
Well, point taken. But the unlikable or unrelatable aspect of these characters is what then robs the PT of its desired tragic affect doesnt it?
In Star Wars, we meet Luke as a young naive farm boy. Han is the man we wished we were; Luke is the man we relate to. He goes on an adventure for the first time and he is taken for a ride; and we are riding along with him. In many ways he is like an inolved observer; and we are too. He loses Ben and we feel his grief. Towards the end he is in the drivers seat and we feel the same mixture of tension, nervousness and hope and we are elated when 'we' win.
In Empire, he is learning new things. We are learning those new things right along with him. The entire installment is about discovery.
In Jedi, he is a Jedi....I no longer find his character as interesting until the end when he loses his father.
The PT failed to execute because it lacks connection with the audience. By making every other character a stoic Jedi, it is a universe full of people you couldnt care less about. Obviously, its foolish to think you can get by with no jedi but the story was too Jedi-centric.
Now I fully realize that of course the PT was about Jedi and that it would have to be....but that is why it fails. No matter rhow appropriate, it was almost doomed to fail. The PT belongs in a myth and lore of the galaxy and should never have been realized into film.
That does not have to be the case with episodes 7,8,9.