None of what I’m saying is attacking anyone personally. So I’d greatly appreciate if you didn’t put words in my mouth. Please and thank you.
I agree. I never said you were attacking anyone personally, and have not put words in your mouth. I did say “What you are saying is insulting and a little narrow minded.” and “it seems obvious you have no respect for people with the view that the Prequels were not enjoyable movies.”
I am sorry if that is harsh, but it my reading of what you have wrote about people who do not like the Prequel films, in here, and in the Prequel Trilogy thread.
A newbie doesn’t have that opinion. It’s like a newborn baby. A baby is pure. Just like a newbie to Star Wars or whatever it might be they’re learning about for the first time. I’m simply giving information and tools to make it so what is misunderstood becomes accessible instead of wanting someone else’s viewpoint that reinforces what my opinion is already or becomes other than from George Lucas for example, which is always definitive but evolving as all stories do.
We were all newbies again going into the Prequels. We were all looking forward to them. We all wanted them to be great movies. Unfortunately for many fans this wasn’t the case. Yet we all made our opinions after watching them, whether these were good, mixed or bad. No baggage. No projections. No need to later understand the author’s intentions either.
We haven’t misunderstood them - or simply “do not understand” them. Tools, intentions, a bio on George, visual literacy, additional content and so on are obviously very important to you with these films, and that is great, as you have repeatedly stated many times. But for many fans they are simply not required to like or dislike a film. It feels like I and others are repeating ourselves over and over, but what happens on screen is the most important for many fans. Please stop. Or at least try to respect the OP and stay on the topic of their thread.
Absolutely but a newbie with a point of view more than likely that already knew Anakin became Darth Vader and that Palpatine was Emperor. This in some way, albeit subconsciously, may have informed and influenced your view on how you felt for example Anakin was supposed to behave and be. It’s why you get so many Original fans complain he’s too whiny and isn’t how they pictured him. This is different from everything I talk about in being important to understanding not just the Prequels but the Originals as well as part of a collective whole. However some fans also grew up with the Prequels ended up not liking them. They and fans of the Original Trilogy first have their reasons for not liking them. It’s perfectly reasonable and okay but that’s subjective reasoning versus everything I describe as tools to understand Star Wars how the author intended. No matter how much we may want to love something sometimes we can’t. It’s perfectly okay. It truly is. However this is completely different from everything I’ve been talking about over and over. Everything I feel you need to know though is within the films themselves. It’s fine some can’t get there but it’s not Prequels fans imagining things more often than not as some want to claim.
However yes, it’s best to keep the topic to what JadedSkywalker intended it to be. There’s no need to continue saying the same things if words are going to be misinterpreted and given contexts that create further impasses.