No.1515
There is a lot of hate for the prequels. I share most of this hate, and I do not disagree with most of the gripes. However, I don't consider George Lucas this evil man that many seem to think he is. I think he made one large mistake, and then did his best to salvage it. That mistake, was ever making prequels in the first place.
We already knew what would happen. Anakin would become a Jedi then fall, the Republic would become the Empire, Yoda and Obi-Wan would end up in exile, etc. etc. That doesn't leave a lot of room for story telling. It especially doesn't leave room for the happy go lucky story of heroes we all know and love from the OT.
Lucas felt that he needed to expand on what had happened, and I do not disagree. But we have seen this can be done in many ways: books, comics, video games, shows, all those things. But the formula for a good trilogy just weren't there in the story that HAD to be told.
That being said, Lucas salvaged as much as he could. You can see an obvious change in style (in aesthetics, acting, colours/lighting) between TPM and AOTC/ROTS. The story of heroes that we see in TPM all but evaporates into just shoving information down your throat with a barrage of special effects.
There is the idea that the story was just there for special effects. In a sense I think this is true. The story is secondary, as it could only be secondary with what Lucas had limited himself to in that the rather bleak ending was already set up.
Part of what made the OT so fantastic: Lucas had room to totally unleash that insane imagination of his. It wasn't even until later that they decided that Vader would be Luke's father, and that ended up being one of the most iconic plot twists in Western culture. He wasn't limited to a predetermined ending, so the OT was able to flourish. A prequel trilogy would never have that chance. The only place he had a chance to use his imagination was in things like aliens, ships, battles, etc. that people fault him for, as they believe the prequels were just made to sell toys.
tl;dr: George Lucas isn't evil, once the decision to make prequels was made he did the best he could
No.1517
if lucas had his way and did 7-9 back in the 80s followed by the 1-3 in the 90s this wouldn't be a problem.
in short, blame that hoe he was banging, marcia.
No.1518
>>1517Do Prequels, Georgie
No.1522
>>1518not like that
when they split she walked out with a lot of his money, this hoe may as well be the reason for howard the duck.
No.1523
>>1522I always theorized that she was the reason why Jedi can't love, because "love leads to the dark side," which always seemed arbitrary and weird to make. Maybe Lucas is mad at his gold digging whore of an ex wife?
No.1525
>>1523Yeah that's probably it. I've read the whole story behind their relationship and it makes sense why he would be jaded over "love".
Marcia wanted kids but he couldn't give her any due to medical problems so they adopted. Marcia still wanted her own biological kids and started cheating on George with their gardener, then later divorced him.
George Lucas was cucked.
No.1526
>>1515>But we have seen this can be done in many ways: books, comics, video gamesThe 90's books and all that multimedia stuff was done to test how popular Star Wars was. Lucas didn't want to dive in and start making expensive new movies without knowing if the market still cared about Star Wars.
He'd still planned on doing the prequels since the 80's though.
No.1528
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>hover handing his own wife
new levels of beta
No.1529
>>1528I always had my suspicions,.. I mean, just look at the guy. The definition of hipster, 3-4 decades before our modern understanding of hipsters even existed.
Too bad because his wife looks like a major qt in her youth.
No.1534
>>1529yeah but george is all about interracial cucking now
No.1538
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>>1536"first gay character in Star Wars" good joke Disney.
No.1555