Quote from: judge death on May 06, 2021, 08:59:38 PM
Thats funny because most fans on star wars group and forums I hang on: accept george lucas prequel trilogy and only problem is with the mitroclorian amount from episode 1, while episode 3 is beloved movie.
Where fans have issues with is episode 8 and 9 which completely broke lore with making it possible to get through shields by kamikaze move and how a big mess it became after Rian jonson f**ked up the series and pretty much finished it in last jedi and they ahd to rehire Abrams to repair it and to please fans made palpatine to come back and f**k up the lore even more xD Episode 7 was and is popular but mandalorian blows them out of the water and is beloved by the fans for going back to the lore they know and was established in the past and have like mara jade back in the lore who was removed in disneys trilogy which they hated for.
Myself isnt a big star wars fan and found last jedi okay but can see it breaking clear rules and see lots fans hating on it and loving to see luke skywalker back with his lightsaber fighting those dark troopers and be how he was in the past and calling luke in the disney trilogy for a fake luke and he isnt luke etc xD
The Star Wars prequels were absolutely PANNED, basically right up until
The Last Jedi released and took the throne as the prime target of fan vitriol, by the fanbase at large; I would know, I spent ~20 years defending the prequels in that time (and funny enough,
The Last Jedi is the only movie in the new trilogy that I quite like). The near-universal love that you often see for the prequels right now is a relatively new thing, most of which has been spurred on by the very vocal community's dislike of the current crop of Disney-era films.
What you're saying here, if I'm understanding correctly, is that stories should be told purely "for the fans," should remain essentially stagnant without characters growing beyond what we once knew them as, and that every single fictional "rule" is carved in stone and should not be messed with even if the filmmakers have a new idea that they want to try out. That all sounds... very stale to me. Especially if a franchise is expected to go on forever. If this is the route that the Alien stories take moving forward, then I guess we'll just keep seeing quasi-remakes of
Alien and
Aliens over and over again, since they're the only two that are truly beloved on a large enough scale to fuel that "for the fans" mentality.