Bret Devereaux

I'm on the record as being vehemently against the rehabilitation of the prequels but what people are nostalgic for here is *some* sense of authorial vision, some feeling of the personal behind the narrative choiceshttps://twitter.com/mavericksmovies/status/1345399892563394561 …

The original trilogy was never an auteurist work and Lucas's attempt to make it one gave us what I really believe are three bad prequels, but at least at the macro level there was a there there. Zoom out on the sequel trilogy and I'm not sure there's really anything to see

It's not auteurist, but I'd argue both that Star Wars has a strong 'house style,' that the prequels were mostly poor films but within that style, while the sequels were outside of that style.

That house-style encompasses a lot of things, from the way dialogue is structured to the way problems are solved, to the world and its internal rules. Trying to approach a Star Wars film critically without placing it relative to that house style strikes me as a mistake.

I think the fans are mistaking the return to that house style in The Mandalorian and Clone Wars S7 with the return to a singular vision of Lucas (and marketing is encouraging this). That said, having the universe run by guys with a mastery of the house style seems wise.