Yeah, and I *mostly* don't agree with that faction either, but on the other hand... Phantom Menace was the most embarrassing of the three by far, but I remember most of what happened in it. Attack of the Clones, I enjoyed more at the time, but it just slides out of my brain.
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Replying to @mattmcirvin @BootlegGirl
As a member of that faction, I will say that while I don't think Phantom Menace is a GOOD movie by any means, the "course corrections" made in AotC are just Lucas clearly abandoning his original ideas for the trilogy in favor of fanservice without actually getting better ideas
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Nothing in TPM, awkward and bizarre and misguided as that movie was, felt *perfunctory* in the way that all the Anakin/Padme romance did in AotC
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TPM is the only one of the three that I can actually REMEMBER, tbh. I am AWARE of the things that happened in the other two, but mainly, I suspect, because I am aware that they HAD to happen to "get" to New Hope
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Yeah that's why I don't even like RotS, no one really behaves like a human being in that movie, everyone's being pulled on puppet strings to just force the Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker to wrap up on schedule and set up the story we already know
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein and
hot take, all the problems with the prequels are driven by a single central contradiction: 1: this is the story of the fall of anakin skywalker 2: "the protagonist must be a hero!"
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
which leads to them making obi wan the central character, which leads to changing the focus of the story to him, which leads to the enormous number of dead-end plot threads that don't matter
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
or, to be concrete: the prequel trilogy should have started with two strange jedi walking in to greedo's shop and buying anakin, because that's when the story of the fall of anakin skywalker actually begins.
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
instead we get the notoriously pointless and convoluted shenanigans with the trade league--because that's where obi-wan's story starts. the reason they feel weightless isn't because trade policy is boring (though it is), it's because they don't matter at all to anakin's story.
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Replying to @perdricof @Radlein and
Yeah the core thing the viral RLM review of the prequels got right is they don't know who the main character actually is
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A problem that, tbh, the sequels also had and then also decided on too late
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