LogFAQs > #938851252

For the record, the complaints about the quality of the prequel trilogy are ridiculous. Star Wars is a serialized story. To give each episode at this point more weight than individual episodes of television shows is obnoxious. I can appreciate the dislike for Episode II as a purely transitionary film that is forced to rely on the emotional weight of an actor whose best work was as a whiny news reporter who didn't understand why fabricating stories was wrong, but come on.

Star Wars is good for a reason.

What Star Wars, like Star Trek, requires, is a more regularly-dispensed, serialized story under the purview of one creative visionary. This is why long-term RPG titles like KOTOR or book series like the Thrawn Trilogy work so well. Characters are given room to breathe and develop, guided through the process by one consistent tone and vision. The mistake with Star Wars is offering it as a movie series and a movie series only, and furthermore diluting the nature of the tale by hacking the series into individual pieces from different creators.

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