Biggest mistake

I'm sure everyone has a list of things they think were mistakes Lucas made he made Episodes 1-3. In your opinion, what was the single biggest mistake made in Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones or Revenge of the Sith?

Personally, I think it was killing Darth Maul at the end of The Phantom Menace. It robbed the PT of a strong, reoccuring villian. That was one of the main draws/strongs of the OT, you knew Darth Vader was always there to threaten the heros. The PT lacked this. Different villain in AotC, he was killed off in the first 20 minutes of RotS and replaced with someone else, who was killed of half-way through RotS and replaced again. Having the same villian kill Qui-Gonn, start the Seperatist movement, cut off Anakins hand, start hunting and killing Jedi, and be who Anakin kills would have been much more compelling.

On top of that he is such a cool looking character who got so much attention during the build up to TPM. He didnt talk uch and we didn't see him a ton. He kinda combined Darth Vader and Boba Fett into one character. Such a shame when Lucas killed him off.

Strilo edit: What ShaneP said. We have a myriad of threads like this.

 

The recurring villain:


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Tada!

 

This thread is over.

 

Holy cow.


...Is that you, Dan?

 

Had Lucas allowed both halves of Darth Maul to live, we'd have twice as much of him!

 

Not an Ewok in sight. What was he thinking?

 

TPM's farting Eopie.

 

The Fans expecting this grand trilogy that would be the exact same one of the OT..

 

The phantom menace:

Jar jar binks.
Having the anakin character be so young.
The casting of miss portman.
The over use of CGI.
Lucas writing and directing.







Attack of the clones:

the casting of haden as Anakin skywalker.
Overuse of bad CGI.
Lucus writing and directing.








Revenge of the sith:

Not enough darth vader screentime.
hammy palpatine.
forced unnecessary mutiple endings.
overuse of bad CGI.
Lucas writing and directing.













You know, even with lucas's scripts i can't help wonder how much more amazing the prequel trilogy would have been if ANY OTHER DIRECTOR IN THE WORLD i made shot those movies...

 

God?

 

Yup. Long time no see.

 

Seriously, sluggo, why not just post your Grievances in one of the prequel changes threads?

This just seems like another one of those.

 

...More than you know.

 

ya, I'm talking about a good villian. One who shows up for more then 2 1/2 minutes in the first 2 movies combined, and then when the 3rd movie comes along and gets a fight scene, its laughable (was Ian really that hard to teach fencing too?)

 

Yeah, cause villains who wind up turning good and then dying are just !fantastic!

 

Darth Maul's death wasn't a mistake at all. I bet you if he was in AOTC and ROTS he would be less liked and not a popular as he is today. Plus he didn't have the brain-power to do what Dooku did in AOTC.

 

Personally, I think it was killing Darth Maul at the end of The Phantom Menace. It robbed the PT of a strong, reoccuring villian. That was one of the main draws/strongs of the OT, you knew Darth Vader was always there to threaten the heros. The PT lacked this. Different villain in AotC, he was killed off in the first 20 minutes of RotS and replaced with someone else, who was killed of half-way through RotS and replaced again. Having the same villian kill Qui-Gonn, start the Seperatist movement, cut off Anakins hand, start hunting and killing Jedi, and be who Anakin kills would have been much more compelling.


I disagree . . . completely. Count Dooku made a stronger villain than Darth Maul. Maul did not have the personality to lead the Separatists in Sidious' name. Dooku did. And Dooku was a more effective lightsaber opponent than Maul. You can only do so much with Ray Parks.

 

I think one of the things was that we needed a centrail villian. One of the things I liked about TPM, was how they always went back and forth to Palpatine/Darth Sidious and him doing his things behind the scene.