2. I know it's been said before, but can't be said often enough, the Star Wars prequels are an abomination.
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3. Here's why the Star Wars prequels are so puzzling. First trilogy started with a brilliant storytelling decision: begin in medias res.
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4. By beginning the first Star Wars movie in the implied middle of a much larger saga, Lucas created a wealth of implications.
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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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@R_Ephemeral Right, making something that is spiritual into a physical thing. A complete abomination.
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