http://screenrant.com/star-wars-7-force-awakens-simon-pegg-genuinely-magical/
Was listening to the Far, Far, Away Podcast this morning and Simon is taking a hit for his comments about the Prequels but the man speaks the truth.
I mean, I accept the Prequels on their own terms. They exist, I don’t want them written out of history. But they are not good movies. TPM was maybe one of the worst movie-going experiences I have ever had in my nearly 40 years. I wonder if this is maybe a generational thing. Gen X loved the OT because it spoke to them and Millennials (not all of them, but a lot) are more apt to like the PT.
What I cannot abide by is the fact that the OT that we are forced to live with in the public domain now is not recognizable to what I grew up with. If I can be forgiving to the PT and say “let 'em live” then we should at least have the OT available to us as they were originally released and not retroactively changed to fit the PT (or other whims). Even if it makes for an uneven viewing experience, that’s fine. They don’t all have to fit together and make sense. They can exist together in the same family without all having to agree with each other as long as they agree with each other among themselves, PT, OT and now ST, respectively.
Yeah. In my mind the PT exists as history with just the facts.
Obi Wan and Liam Neeson find Anakin as a child
Raise him up to be jedi
He is extremely adept in Force powers
He is generally a good guy
Falls in love with Padme
Then tragedy befalls him and he goes ape shit
Emperor gets hold of him and seals his fate.All the details in between are irrelevant in my galaxy view. The nuances dont matter as that stuff exists in the movies and sucks.
I had the thought the other day that the prequels would be a lot more palatable as a comic. Same stuff happens, it’s still canon, but no one has to act, characters don’t need to blend into CGI sets, and you never hear anyone say “Dooku” out loud. It’s all just this weird Adventures of Young Obi-Wan Kenobi serial that technically counts but no one cares much to talk about. That’s sort of how I’ve chosen to remember it.
So, more or less the Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars cartoon?
(Same plots, characters, designs, but none Lucas’ writing, no CGI sets, no choppy acting, or whiny Anakin. They do say “Dooku” out loud though.)
(Personally though, when I hear Ben Kenobi mention the Clone Wars I prefer to imagine some kind of colourful blend of the Tartakovsky cartoon, the Silent Drifting comic from 1979 and Kenner’s ‘The Epic Continues’ pitch. Which may sound kind of weird, and it is, but until someone can give me a better alternative it works well enough for me.)