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I mean what exactly is wrong with the prequels? The general overarching story about the fall of rhe republic is great.
Too much artsy, not enough fartsy
The dialogs are so horrific that parts of the movies are borderline unwatchable. Nothing makes sense in the context of the movies, basically the Clone Wars series had to fix the whole story because nobody acts believably in the movies. The action scenes (aside from Yoda vs. Palpatine and the Pod Racing) are unbelievably boring because they are not staged well, you are supposed to find the action scenes engaging just because a lot of shit happens, there's no proper thought behind it.
The disrespect for the duel on Mustafar is unreal.
Actually youre disrespecting all of Ewan McGregor's lightsaber work, which is simply wrong besides being ignorant.
Christian and Ewan might not have had the cleanest choreography, but they developed real skill to perform the way they did across the prequels and some of the sequels.
Im not the biggest fan of starwars as a franchise as a literary example of storytelling, but I can still respect talent when I see it.
Each day we stray further from God
They took the baddest bad guy of badguyness (Vader) and turned him into a whinny emo kid.
For actual points of "that's fucking stupid".... take a look at this map. This is canonical... I've marked the locations of Coruscant (above galactic center,), Naboo an tatooine in red.
I've marked more than a few locations in which they could have gone instead of Tat that would:
but, no. Tatooine. which was a remote, useless dustball that only had it's remoteness as a positive aspect (and that only to criminal elements.)
of the places I marke, Eriadu makes the some sense. It's large enough and important enough to have what they'd need- and being on a busy trade up makes it more likely that nobody would care or notice their presence.
On the way to Eriadu, however, you also have Sarrassia an Sollust, both of which are heavily built up word's in the republic, and therefor make some sense too.
Christophsis is another world that is a major republic world an was quite built up. You'll find that they probably passed through on their way to Tatooine.
if you're thinking, 'hey, but the trad federation is everywhere!', its rather unlikely that any of those three planets have an active blockade looking for them, and even less unlikely they'll take an active effort in that conflict. If you find that unconvincing, fair enough, lets got to Pantora. Republic world with reasonable people on it. rather in the middle of no where, off the beaten path an fairly technological. They would at least have been able to get passage to Coruscant, even if they had to leave the shiny thing behind.
Which, they probably could have just jumped a passenger liner off Tat, too. details, amirite? Or they could have sent a coded concealed message to the order. gotten a jedi ship out there. all that.
That is the level of detail being made in the stories. Their hyperdrive is shat to hell, but hey, they make it entire sectors away, an chose to go limp someplace that is arguably worse than the place they left.
Honestly my favourite thing about star wars is how they treat the canvas of the galaxy as a contained landmass, like it's some medieval fantasy story. Would like to see more fiction that does this.
Also - thanks for a detailed critique of the prequels. It's kind of sad how easy it would've been for the creators to avoid this ~~plot~~ logic hole, AND you can't even hand wave it away with "hyperspace lanes" because the map shows that tatooine is not the most direct stop. I also compared your map with an older one (reddit link) to try and figure out if it was just a case of inconsistency from legends-prequels-disney era, and lo and behold the position of star systems is completely consistent.
Now a last comment: Star/planet names are even more interesting than I thought in star wars. I'm seeing:
Why is Tatooine so far from Hutt Space?
mostly because the galaxy map in starwars has always been a mess, if we're being honest.
Well explain then. Yeah I know the dialogue is afwul and some choices like jar jar and too much CGI can be jarring. But what is wrong with the story?
I wrote some tweaks for it a few years ago, but I'm kinda scared to post it here.
The overarching storyline was okay, but it was the execution and the smaller details. Dying of sadness was dumb.
Nah post it I wanna see your tweaks.
Yeah the execution was lacking but if you watched the movies you'll mostly just remember the overall story anyway. Definitely better than the jumbled mess the sequels were. One of the reasons when me and my GF watched star wars I never even bothered telling her they exist.
Nah, I just remember the memes XD
I'm also one of the few people who thought Ep1 was the best of the prequels.
I'm not brave enough for the Disney trilogy. I already went through watching a protag being ruined when I played Apollo Justice, don't need to do it again.
Here are my tweaks.
https://blog.outtolunch.me.uk/2020/11/22/prequels-review-and-fix/
Although Nellith and Luke being the twins is still my headcanon.
Seems like generally good ideas. The only part I personally did jot like your changes was Anakin turning to the dark side. I don't know how I would have prefered it but your version of events does not appeal to me either.
Overall the movies would have been quite a bit better if they were more in line with that.
Cool, no worries. My version was just how I'd have preferred it to go, since we had to have Anakin become Vader. To me, this made the most sense for how to make it happen without straying too far from the canon. I'm glad you liked my other tweaks though!
Yeah they are good. Don't know why you were afraid to post them here
Bullets & Blockbusters: "The Original Plans for The Phantom Menace" (YT video)
This plan they originally had would be way more rewatchable and aligned - thematically, stylistically and narrative-wise - with what we got in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, both of which I think are more acceptable prequels to A New Hope.
Compared to the Sequels, not a lot.
The story is there, and it’s a great story, but the acting is so hammy and the dialog is so stilted that even now it’s difficult to watch parts of them.
The Clone Wars/Rebels is the new canonical Prequel Saga, as far as I’m conserned.
I mean the sequels barely have anything going for them. The acting there is also nothing special. But the story is the main issue anyway so they are quite a few notches lower
Watch the Plinkett review
Almost 4.5h for all 3 movies? I don't got the time for that.
They are soooooooo much more entertaining than the movies
To me, not sticking to the original concept of Darth Jar Jar.
I'd suggest watching the Mr. Plinkett reviews by RedLetterMedia. They are longer than the actual movies, though.