Census Now that it's over which do you like better, the Sequel Trilogy or the Prequel Trilogy? (read: hell)

That... can be arranged but are you sure?

As to the main Q - Prequels - Clone Wars, double-bladed sabers, Qui-gon Jinn and Duel of the Fates.

 

Prequel trilogy.

I have no expectations for the sequel trilogy and it was still very disappointing. It just seemed like they had no idea that the movies were supposed to go together and... I think in a few years people might look at this like the hobbit trilogy: they didn’t need 3 movies to tell the story they told.

 

Sequels. They don't hit the highs of the prequels (RotS) but they also don't go as bad as its lows (AotC).

But I like them both a ton.

 

The prequels lack an original character as endearing as Babu Frik.

 

They're all bad but I chose the sequels because the prequels were directed by a tennis ball.

 

There was a period of months in 2014/2015 when I thought about/ posted about/ speculated about the sequel trilogy on a daily basis.

They screwed it up so bad that not only have I not seen Episode IX, I don’t even *care* that I haven’t seen it.

 

Trash Star Wars is still better than no Star Wars. So I’ve lightened up my mood and just go in looking for fun. I’m happier in spite of the absolute garbage shooting into my eyes.

 

Anakin surfs on a cow.

Prequels.

 

During my initial viewings, I generally enjoyed TPM, liked 2/3rds of ATOC, and enjoyed ROTS. From the ST, I only enjoyed TLJ in my first viewing. The other 2 didn't work for me.

My opinion today:

6 out of 10 for TPM. It has some big flaws, but watchable.
5/10 ATOC. Only the middle 3rd of it doesn't bore me.
8.5/10 ROTS. I still like this one a great deal, and it's nice that I can marathon ROTS, R1, and the entire OT, and enjoy mostly all 5 films straight.

3/10 TFA. I like original stories. The reboot factor made it too uncannily familiar and also a strange continuation of the OT storyline
6/10 TLJ. I like the Rey/Kylo dynamic and Luke on Crait, but the other 2 story lines bore me (Canto Bight & the slow space chase), so it keeps losing and regaining my interest throughout.
3/10 ROS. A rushed video game quest plot with an over-the-top dumbed-down retread of ROTJ's conclusion tacked on at the end.

What's kind of funny is that people complained about Lucas "raping" their childhoods with the PT, but really the PT only retconned trivial aspects of the OT. On the other hand, the ST really did totally change aspects of the OT radically and for the worse.

It diminished Vader's sacrifice, it made the Rebellion's ROTJ victory mostly meaningless, it ignored the importance of enduring and completing the hero's journey, it undermined Lucas's vision of the Force and altered it inconsistent and silly ways, and it replaced the saga's poignant ending where Luke's refusal to fight brings compassion and humanity back to his father with Rey making Palpatine go all explodey.

If the OT is Star Wars at its best, then ultimately the ST did far more to damage its legacy than the PT ever did, and that alone makes the ST the inferior trilogy.

 

On the old boards I made a sock named Rump Ranger who used that image as an avatar. Pretty sure I was banned after one post but damn, I sure did think that was funny.

In many ways I will always be twelve years old.

 

Why would that have been bannable? Seems pretty harmless to me...

 

Those were the old days. He probably said 'WTF'.

 

Quoted in case anybody needs any more proof that Star Wars fans are worthless film critics.

 

Or posted a picture of a bee next to an s

 

It might have been due to the user name - it's derogatory slang for a homosexual male. (Thank you Google).

 

No way!!! Wow, you really learn something every day on this here internet!

This would probably be a good time to point out I have done film writing professionally.

 

What didn't you like about ROTS? For me, the first half of that film was the weakest, although it was considerably better (opera scene/story of Darth Plagueis the Wise and later).

 

The PT and it isn’t even close. There are only three films of the franchise I dislike, all of which make up the ST.

 

One area the ST has over the PT: No Jar Jar.

 

Yeah, I hate how they changed Padme's character. And your suggestion about Palpatine framing the Jedi for letting her die is a good one and much more plausible.

Padme went from the bad*** character from TPM to AOTC to wringing her hands. I would almost have preferred that she wasn't so far along in her pregnancy in the film. Maybe she finds out and is about to tell Anakin, but refrains when she sees how dark he's becoming.

 

i've been saying since tfa that one thing the sequel trilogy could possibly accomplish is making people think the prequels weren't that bad.

 

Many of us thought they were excellent all along.

 

Anakin not knowing Padme's pregnant would certainly have matched the ROTJ novelisation better.