"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
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The great advantage the prequels have is that they didn’t damage the OT, and that they had a genuinely worthwhile world building and plot-construction. I mean, I’d still argue TPM and ROTSare ultimately better stories than TLJ and TROS; not having too deal with TLJ’s hypocrisy and sexism/racism is always going tog vie you an advantage, and their both actually very competently made films with ambitious stories. But even AOTC has a great plot going on behind it that Lucas could base an entire TV series on; it’s execution is bad, but not fatal.
The problem the Sequels have is that LFL allow them to slowly devolve into taking a **** on the OT, and on their own most successful film in TFA, while primarily reducing most of it down to a Kylo Ren-focused story that had a Dark Empire story stapled on at the end.
The PT was always just a good execution away from being great - that’s why so many comics, tie-in books, and TV shows succeeded in that era.
In contrast… the ST saw TLJ retcon and denigrate both successful elements from TFA and from TFA’s spin-off material.
Like action, adventure, rogues, and outlaws? Like anti-heroes, femme fatales, mysteries and thrillers?
I wrote a book with them. Outlaw’s Shadow: A Sherwood Noir. Robin Hood’s evil counterpart, Guy of Gisbourne, is the main character. Feel free to give it a look: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asi...E2PKBNJFH76GQP
Thanks to other projects like the animated works, the entire era has a much, much different reputation now than it did when it was just the three motion pictures. In totality, age has helped its overall reception.
I mean, you're free to dislike them all as much as you want of course, but all the same they very much are not ignored on a general level or otherwise.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
I don't hate either, but I'm just not a fan of nostalgia somehow retroactively making things seem 'better.' And I'm specifically talking about the movies. They were disappointing yet got extra material, like animated shoes, to improve reception, so why can't the sequels get that too?
I hope they do.
None of the films themselves (any trilogy) are made better by extra material. Doesn't matter how good Clone Wars was, it doesn't make the prequels any easier to watch. Rogue One and Solo don't make New Hope any better or worse than it is.
But the extra material does enrich and improve the overall lore and continuity, and that can improve future projects. Mandalorian wouldn't be quite as good as it is if the cartoons hadn't deepened the lore of Mandalore and introduced all these ideas, characters, and history that Din Djarin has run into.
Nothing will make the sequels better films in their own right, but maybe the overall story can be added to, fleshed out, smoothed over, and made better. I hope it happens, the prequel era became much more robust and interesting because of Clone Wars, even if the prequel movies are still awful. The sequel era would benefit from the same development.
"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."
~ Black Panther.
You don't need to be stuck in the past, there's nothing interesting about the sequels so I don't see staying there but you can just jump further ahead and keep on trucking. Grogu as a jedi master 100 years after the sequels would work perfectly well for instance and it would build off of something that people actually enjoyed.
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Star Wars, by-and-large, has had great ideas. The execution has been the problem. I have more problems with the PT than the ST but there are amazing aspects to mine for content in both. Case in point, the actual Clone Wars, Bad Batch from the PT-era.
There are legions of young, new fans that came into SW via the ST so I expect some era specific ST-spinoffs later. Much like when the PT-era new SW fans grew up and are pressing for content from that era. I actually think giving the PT time to breathe helped it in the long run.
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