Mal ,'War Stories'
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The prequels for the Star Wars movies burned out any lingering enthusiasm I had for the franchise as a whole
There is no WORD big enough to articulate how much word I have for this.
Someone will have to give this one a gold-plated review before I can be bothered, nostalgia be damned.
I enjoyed enough of the sequels that I'd watch them again if I stumbled across them.
I have such complicated feelings about Star Wars. Cannot sum up.
I've never had any great attachment to Star Wars. I enjoyed the original movies well enough, but thought the overall reaction to them to be out of proportion to the quality of them.
The prequels were pretty but the cartoon Clone Wars are better. I'll see the sequels for completest reasons, but I don't have a great investment in the whole thing.
Oh, man, I loved the original trilogy so much, and hated the first prequel so much, I never saw any of the other movies.
But I'm enjoying SW Rebels, and oh, the MUSIC and the pan across the desert, and Han and Chewie!
I've started to hope again. This is bad. I remember what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek, my other beloved childhood franchise.
I remember what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek, my other beloved childhood franchise.
It could be an insidious ploy from the dark side.
I'm cautiously optimistic. What bothers me more, at the moment, is how little the universe has apparently changed in 30 years. Rebels in X-wings vs Imperial Tie Fighters seems like the Star Wars universe got stuck in a bubble where nothing changed except for the inhabitants getting older.
It has always seemed to me like the Star Wars universe was fairly stagnant technologically. So X wings don't bug me. I kind of like that it doesn't seem like the rebels immediately won and took over everything after RotJ - the Emperor had built enough of a governmental system that clearly others would step in after his death.
People out on the borderlands would hack out empires for themselves. Typical behavior after a major change of government.
I'm reminded of a far-future sci-fi series I read most of (the plot eventually went too far up its own ass for even me to care how it ended), where technology is deliberately kept stagnant because everyone knows there are thousands of years missing from historical records (i.e. our present) where technology was advancing so fast that the records became obsolete and unreadable before anyone realized it would be a problem.