/starwars/ - Star Wars

>>887
>also you now realize that lucas kept to his original premise in that the story is still told from the perspectives of the droids in the fact that they are pretty much everywhere.

You know it's the little things that really make me appreciate Lucas's sense of imagination, divisive though it may be.. There's something very Star Wars about the image of him thinking this all up and making sure it was consistent with his idea that R2 would dictate the whole saga to the Whills thousands of years in the future, even though this idea was never really used in anything the lowest common denominator of people would consume.

I actually like all the prequels.

>>906

it was heavily implied that qui-gon deliberately and often defies the council and does shit to his own accord

nigga takes names and gives nothing in return and fucks bitches probably

>>906
There is a series about Obi Wan as a Padawan I read as a kid. You get a better idea of Qui Gon from it. In fact, Obi Wan didn't even want to be his Padawan because he was so rogue-like. He kinda got his greyness from being Dooku's apprentice back when he was still a Jedi.

>>909
Exactly. When Qui Gon Jinn fucks a bitch he fucks her right

>>920
Yes sir

>>916
>>932
Damn, you guys just brought back some memories.

Being about seven years old when that film came out and having my mom read these to me every night made the characters feel very real and close to me. Say what you will about TPM, its tie-in materials were marketed brilliantly.

>>880

>What is your honest opinion on the prequels?

They suck, but you’ve already acknowledged that. I concede that if you look hard enough, there are things you can find to like, but it’s like searching for the dimmest of silver linings around some very dark clouds.

My biggest problems with them, though, are that even some of the things I do like are tainted by the way they were executed. They represent a missed opportunity. My list of tweaks in no particular order :

Anakin should not have been a child in TPM. He should have been a teenager from the start. Star Wars was built on the premise of the ‘three galactic musketeers’ that we followed on their adventures through the original trilogy. Assuming the same basic plot of TPM, would anything of real value have been lost if Obi Wan had assumed the Qui-Gon role and Anakin had been old enough to be a more credible hero (much like Luke)? It would have allowed the three main characters to be the focus of the trilogy and the romance between Padme and Anakin to begin earlier and not seem so forced in AOTC. Not to mention giving (what would have been) Obi Wan’s decision to train Anakin much more resonance for the rest of the trilogy and the earlier films. Qui-Gon Jinn is an entirely superfluous character.

Darth Maul should have lived. His design was awesome and he represented a new kind of villain that was consistent with the concept of the Sith, but divergent enough from Vader to be really new and exciting. Animalistic, predatory, athletic. If he had lived to return in AOTC & ROTS, it would have given us a great recurring villain and made Dooku a much better character (see below).

Dooku should not have been a Sith. Dooku should have been the proto-Tarkin, an agent of Palpatine with Maul serving as his attendant, echoing the Vader-Tarkin relationship in ANH. Given his stature as an actor, I never really bought Christopher Lee as just a lackey of the Emperor, and having Maul serve him would have given him back some gravitas. It would also have allowed Darth Maul to fight the battle at the end of AOTC requiring a little less suspension of disbelief that Dooku didn’t break a hip during that battle. Hell, if you really wanted to make the prequels a more seamless fit with the original trilogy, you could remove Dooku as a character entirely and just replace him with a younger Tarkin. A Republic/Imperial Navy presence is pretty much lacking entirely from the prequels, so this would have given us a little more of a window into that world during this time period.

C-3PO should have been serving Padme at the beginning of the trilogy. Anakin may or may not have constructed R2-D2. I could see it work either way. Both droids should remain with and serve Amidala after Anakin leaves Tatooine. The treatment of the droids in TPM is one of the things that makes a liar out of Lucas when he says it’s the droids story.

Midi-chlorians should have been the name of the space parasite that killed Jar Jar Binks. Off-screen. In the prequel to the prequels.

>>965
This has been said to hell and back, but I still think the majority of the problem lies with Lucas's directing rather than Christensen's acting.

>>971
>>972
There's a big parallel with Mark Hamill here. The only truly mediocre actor among a lead cast of greats, I firmly believe he wasn't able to reach his full potential due to Lucas's restrictive direction, and wound up so typecast he had to retreat into the world of theatre and VO work. We lost a potentially great film actor.

Likewise, Christensen's career has been ruined by Star Wars. He'll never be remembered as anything other than the whiny little bitch who hates sand and ruined Darth Vader. Which is exactly what Lucas was aiming for with the character, so whatever. Like Hamill, he did show some improvement over the course of the trilogy, but I highly doubt we'll ever see him in another big role.

I do think some of the blame for Christensen's acting rests on his own shoulders though. Much like Hamill, he's far from the most talented actor of his respective trilogy. That honor probably goes to Ewan Macgregor, since Obi-wan was the only hero in the prequels who actually felt like he had a soul. Ian Mcdiarmid was also great but that goes without saying.