Quote from: Vickers on Feb 08, 2014, 01:52:55 PM
Star Wars never really "died" for me. Even if the prequels aren't as strong as the original trilogy, I still find them incredibly fun to watch and they still add a richness to the world. I even like Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
When Star Wars: Episode VII was announced, I wasn't too thrilled initially but I'm curious to see the end result. I would have personally loved to see another director take it on but it's not like I was begging for a new Star Wars film anyway - so I'll give it a chance. But my expectations are really low.
Mah man Vickers
To me, at this point, I can't have the Originals without the Prequels, and vice versa. They work in tandem with one another beautifully, with their differences in tone and style being just as important as their similarities. On a visual level alone (the sleek and shiny old world of the Prequels eventually changing into the blocky Imperial constructs of the Originals) the progression of the story from one trilogy is fantastic to watch, never mind the thematic changes that the characters and the world itself undergo. I absolutely love, for example, how everything seems shifts gears between
Revenge of the Sith and
A New Hope, but the seeds have been planted from the very beginning. The old Republic of the Prequels becomes the evil Empire of the classic films, but the implication that it has been operating that way since the beginning of
The Phantom Menace resonates all along. Similarly, the Confederacy that we hate for opposing the supposedly diplomatic government in the Prequels eventually forms the basis for the freedom-fighting Rebels of the Original Trilogy in their conquest to end the Empire's corrupt rule of the galaxy. What seemed so black and white all along is actually coated in gray. It's fascinating to really put all of this into perspective.
