Why are we not complaining about this?
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/11/9309335/see-the-star-wars-scenes-shared-between-the-two-trilogies
Have we lost our vitriol? A video supposedly showing the “like poetry, it rhymes” that could also just prove that “Lazy Lucas, was Lazy” is making the rounds, “proving” that the PT was “reverent” to the OT because the director only has so many ways he can shoot a medium/closeup scene.
I don’t think the vitriol is there the way it was ten years ago because there are so few fans who really care enough to try and bring credibility to the prequels. That’s not to say there isn’t a strong fan base for them, there is. TFN is proof of that. It just looks to me like they’re becoming much more of a singular focus sub-group. Similar to the way we have been for the past twenty-five years.
Videos and articles like the one linked above are waved off as nerd-based silliness more often than they would have been ten years ago. The franchise has been sold, new people are running it, writing the stories, and directing the films. With the focus being on restoring the franchise as opposed to taking it further down the rabbit hole (when Lucas ran\wrote\produced\cast\directed\edited), the climate surrounding the films seems to be a return to the GFFA.
All that rhyming bullshit Lucas burped out in interviews is comical. I’ll give him this; he took self-aggrandizement to a new level. For the record, I always thought you guys were goofing on him with the “like poetry, it rhymes” statement. I never realized he actually said it. Bonehead.