People who watched the PT before the OT

Author: TMBTM
Date: 28-Jul-2009, 5:19 AM

Author: TMBTM
Time: 28-Jul-2009 5:19 AM
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I don't know if this thread will have much succes but I'd really like to know if some of you watched Star Wars for the first time going from EP1 to EP6? (Maybe without even knowing the original characters, plot twists etc...)

At what age? Did the whole saga felt like one solid story to you? Did you find the OT a bore after watching the special effects of the PT? Or on the contrary you found Luke and Han's story more interesting? How Yoda's and Vader's "revelation" lines worked in that context? Etc.

Author: Jonno
Time: 28-Jul-2009 11:51 AM
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I hope no-one really does do that. Assuming that most young kids are shown Star Wars for the first time by a parent or older relative, you'd hope that they'd have the sense and good taste to start with the 'real thing'.

Maybe I'm being too charitable of modern parenting ;-)

Author: xhonzi
Time: 28-Jul-2009 1:33 PM
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Last summer, I was sitting on the couch with my laptop hanging my head as I watched the trailer for the theatrical Clone Wars cartoon. My 5 year old son asked me what I was doing, so he jumped up on the couch with me.

Him: "Wow! Star Wars! COooooollll!"

Me: "Yeah..."

Him: "Dad?"

Me: "Yeah?"

Him: "Who's that?" (pointing at Obiwan)

Me: "That's Obiwan Kenobi." (Confused look on his face)

Him: Who's that? (pointing at Anakin)

Me: "That's Anakin Skywalker." (He gets even more confused.)

And then it dawns on me.

Me: I'VE DONE IT! I'VE RAISED A SON WHO LOVES STAR WARS but HAS NO IDEA THAT THE PREQUELS EXIST!

And then I did a little jig in the family room.

2 weeks later, his idiot cousin invites him to go see the movie for his birthday party. And his idiot cousin procedes to explain to him how much better the prequels are than the old movies. I don't think my son fully believed him, but his innocence is gone. :(

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

Author: Gaffer Tape
Time: 28-Jul-2009 2:19 PM
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Wow. That story thoroughly depressed me. So close and yet... well, it was inevitable, I suppose.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

Author: C3PX
Time: 28-Jul-2009 3:01 PM
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Wow, that was really depressing. The worst part is it lead me on, it made me feel warm and fuzzing inside, then in the last line it took a shotgun to the warm fuzziness and blew it away...

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

Author: CO
Time: 28-Jul-2009 4:16 PM
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Dont worry guys if kids watch the Saga 1-6 these days, they will change their opinion when they are older.

When I was growing up, the days before I had a VCR, I only had Cable TV and HBO to see the movies after they came out in the theater. I saw Rocky II before Rocky I, I saw Temple of Doom before Raiders, and I saw Jaws 2 before Jaws, and also saw Superman II before Superman I.

For many years, those were my favorites of the series, simply because I saw them so many times on HBO. I used to think Rocky I was boring and Rocky II was the cooler movie. I used to think that Superman II was better then I, same with Temple of Doom because it had more action.

Probably around Highschool I started changing my views. Of course now I can say that Rocky I, Raiders, Superman I, and Jaws are the elites of their movie series. So have faith guys, kids are kids, and what they like will change as they get older.

Author: V
Time: 29-Jul-2009 1:25 AM
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Watching the prequels first pretty much destroys everything Darth Vader was thought to be before in the original trilogy. It's no longer a surprise when Vader reveals he is Luke's father and Vader looses a large portion of being one of the greatest villains in film history. He becomes a tragic character and not the man in black who was a force of evil. Knowing that the goofy little kid in The Phantom Menace is the guy in the suit just makes me sad.

I don't know any adults who like the prequels, so that means there's hope for the children of tomorrow. I'm thankful for having been born before the re-release of the VHS tapes and growing up with the true trilogy. Even though kids today will now have two different parts of the saga to watch, I have a good feeling that most parents (if not all) will introduce their children to the good Star Wars movies first, and if they want to, the prequels eventually. Only to have those kids grow up and know which films are the best and continue this pattern in a never ending cycle. May the force be with them.

You don't get it, boy. This isn't a mudhole. It's an operating table, and I'm the surgeon.

Author: Vaderisnothayden
Time: 29-Aug-2009 2:12 AM
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It's pretty sad if anybody starts Star Wars with the prequels. You get your view of Star wars totally corrupted that way.

Author: xhonzi
Time: 4-Sep-2009 10:52 AM
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So, I had another precious conversation with my now 6 year old son last week. We were driving in the car, and he asked me:

Him: Dad?

Me: Yeah?

Him: How did Darth Vader fall to the Dark Side?

Me: Um.... Nobody knows. They never made a movie about it, so nobody knows...

Him: NOBODY KNOWS?!?!?!

Me: Nope. You just have to use your own imagination.

Him: Oh....

Me: So, how do you think Darth Vader fell to the Dark Side?

Him: Hmmm.... I bet someone- a bad buy! told him that if he fell to the Dark Side that he could have everything he ever wanted.

Me: Mmmm... that's pretty good. So, if a bad guy came to you and told you that, would you fall to the Dark Side?

Him: Noooo.... If it was a bad guy, I wouldn't believe him if he told me that.

Me: But what if he made you think he was a good guy?

Him: Hmmmm.....

Me: Would you believe a good guy if he told you that?

Him: I guess so...?

Ah, the innocence of youth untainted by the Prequels or Special Editions.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

Author: Vaderisnothayden
Time: 4-Sep-2009 11:55 AM
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I always figured it was anger and hate that turned Anakin dark, because that's what the dark side was all about in the OOT and that's what Vader and Palpy were trying to use in Luke to get him to go dark. I'd go so far as to say I suspect that may have been Lucas's original vision. Certainly the version we got in ROTS was a late development. And in an article on his site Michael Kaminski demonstrates how the heavy focus on trying to save Padme in Annie's reasons for going dark was a late development in the actual making of ROTS.