5. Much of the joy of the first trilogy comes from imagining the complex history in throw away lines.
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6. The tendency to ruin the mystery of an work of art by over-explicit "origin" stories is something you see often in fan fiction.
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7. In a Sherlock Holmes story, Conan Doyle once referred to "the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."
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8. That throw-away line is all you need to spend hours pondering what giant rat of Sumatra is and why the world isn't ready to hear about it
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9. Post Conan Doyle, you had fans who wrote stories to explain what the giant rat of Sumatra was. Completely missing the point.
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10, In the prequels, Lucas is in effect writing fan fiction based on his own earlier work. Won't let fans spoil, will do it himself.
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11. The characters in the original trilogy seemed mythical, folkloric, larger than life. Like the Big Bad Wolf or Jack in the Beanstock.
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12. You wouldn't do a prequel to 3 Little Pigs asking what sort of childhood the Big Bad Wolf had. Same with Vader. No need to explain.
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13. The mystery of how Anakin Skywalker became Vader is made trite. Bigger mystery is how George Lucas lost storytelling skills.
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