The revisionist history around the prequels drives me insane. The same people who trashed George Lucas for them now desperately want him back. 🙄 - ThreadSky

ferriswheelpro.bsky.social • 103 days ago

The revisionist history around the prequels drives me insane. The same people who trashed George Lucas for them now desperately want him back. 🙄

Reposted from Caolan🇮🇪🎮

It's a meme that the sequels are the worst thing that ever happened to Star Wars
but they said the same thing about the prequels

then there are Star Wars fans that hate everything

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kotlol.bsky.social•103 days ago

I don't want Lucas back. The guy does decent world building but has no idea how to focus a story.

The originals only worked due to a team making it better.

Lucas alone = prequels.
No teamplay = Sequel trilogy.

Also it's not like "Legends" was perfect either. Throwing a moon to kill Chewbecca...

ferriswheelpro.bsky.social•103 days ago

That's actually a great point!

riggerjohn.bsky.social•103 days ago

See, I enjoy trash so I know where my standards stand. I actually thought the Last Jedi was good and felt a bit disappointed the the final one of the new trilogy retconned a lot of it. At least the prequel mostly stuck with its wooden dialog guns.

ruleof2review.bsky.social•103 days ago

To be fair with the prequel trilogy it’s a combination of people lying about the things they unfairly said back in the day (which pisses me off), but also people sincerely re-evaluating the movies and changing their mind. Which is an act we should always celebrate and encourage.

ferriswheelpro.bsky.social•103 days ago

What did they unfairly say back in the day?

ruleof2review.bsky.social•103 days ago

Oh you know, all the normal stuff we’ve heard before. There some fair critiques to have had about them of course, but there’s far more disingenuous stuff about the quality of the movies, acting, script etc.

Then there’s the shit about “GL ruined SW. GL raped my childhood.” Just cowardly statements.

ferriswheelpro.bsky.social•103 days ago

Oh bro, even though I've been critical of the prequels, I ALWAYS hated those "GL stomped on my childhood and pissed on its grave" people. They're so ungrateful.

ruleof2review.bsky.social•103 days ago

As someone who loved the movies right away I was in the trenches back in the day, man. Hearing and fielding those kinds of sentiments and fighting back as hard as I could. It was literally my Vietnam lol.

That’s why I’m glad for the people who *genuinely* reevaluate them and update their opinions.

ruleof2review.bsky.social•103 days ago

I’ve gone through my own reevaluation and roller coaster of opinions on TFA and TLJ over the years, and I go out of my way to try and give them the same fair treatment. I have a some harsh criticisms of both, but also find a lot of genuine good in each (independent of the other movies). 👍

mrcrunchberry.bsky.social•103 days ago

I revisited the prequels not too long ago, and while they definitely still suck, they at least still "felt" like Star Wars. The world building, the design, and the "soul" was still there.

They're better than the regurgitated, creatively bankrupt, "mass audience" sludge that Star Wars has become.

ferriswheelpro.bsky.social•103 days ago

Disney needs to slow TF down on their Star Wars output. Seriously, TOO MANY DAMN SHOWS. 😤

jodickejan.bsky.social•103 days ago

In fairness they already dow so far we have exactly 2 shows and another season of visions coming next year ashoka 2 and andor 2 both ending after that season

jodickejan.bsky.social•103 days ago

People were blind to how much worse it could be than came the sequels

ferriswheelpro.bsky.social•103 days ago

Nah I hate this excuse. Especially because the sequels aren't bad movies except for one.

jodickejan.bsky.social•103 days ago

I mean i disagree we had 30 years of better content in the EU and after they threw that out all we got was a lukewarm remake of georges trilogy its was really really bad and unlike the prequels didnt had a singel original idea

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