Yeah. At first, I thought my Luke warm feelings for the sequels were disappointment for the focus shifting away from the original characters, but I now suspect that KR made me feel like I’m not really feeling this new generation of characters.
Rey: ok.
Finn: ok.
Kylo:
Leia also remembers her mom was kind and sad.
The force explanation is contrived after the fact to try to explain it.
There are other more minor things Lucas alluded to in the originals that he didn’t quite have play out. But the Leia memory thing is the most glaring.
This was me. When the Phantom Menace came out, I was 9 and didn’t care that Jar Jar was annoying or the CGI was rough. I was already a big Star Wars fan and to me the prequels were just more Star Wars and so by extension awesome.
However, now as an adult, or slightly older child, I find 1,2,3,7,8,9, to be disappointing.
I’m smack dab in the middle of a Venn diagram of Star Wars fan and Moulin Rouge fan. If anyone wants to add the rabbit hole of the Long Way series with Ewan Mcgregor, we can start a fan club. #teamEwan
Seems to me - admittedly not a huge SW nerd - that a better work-around would be if Leia as a child had viewed holo images of her mother, perhaps a journal, that had gone with her to her adoptive parents. Even if she did not know at the time who she was seeing, they were fragmentary or she saw them surreptitiously, she could’ve gleaned kindness and sadness and then later learning it was her biological mother…
Just my 2C on a subject I’ve devoted no thought about until this moment.
Doofenschmirtz or a close relative . . .
Often, but this is why I did not want Rey anywhere near him.
But I say often because he would be interesting for half a second then go back to snivelling. But I remeber his grandfather doing that too, before the helmet.
I love Kylo Ren! His emo personality is iconic. I found his aggressive nature, “tempted” by the light - sort of the reverse of Vader - to be really compelling and relatable.
Also, Rey is one of the greatest characters in all of Star Wars. Right up there with Luke, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Leia, and Han.
This.must.exist.
One summer after a bad break up I watched that movie 100 times.
I remember at the time him discussing how much he disliked the green screen acting of Star Wars and loved the huge production of Moulin Rouge.
Apparently I have 50,000 emotions about Star Wars. Because I also agree with this. I liked that he was chaotic evil and unpredictable. Like a toddler with a light saber. Some moments all tantrum, some moments “I’ll be good”. But that is also what annoyed me from time to time?
Rey is an all around awesome character.
I think I must rewatch all three of these now.
I wonder if there’s a correlation between liking the sequels and having watched the SW cartoon, The Clone Wars.
Just thinking if your reference is firmly anchored in the original trilogy, you might be less open to whatever came out.
But if you can embrace the animated series in your headcanon, then you’re less likely to be gatekeeping a shrine with a cornerstone marked “Consecrated circa 1977-1983, all others Keep Off My Lawn”
I saw the original series in real time… heavily dislike the prequels, and like the sequels a lot.
Never saw Clone Wars.
Sorry to skew the theory!
I think it’s only natural that people are resistant to changes to something that has been in their head for a long time, even ideas they came up with themselves. For example, often people don’t like when characters in a movie are played by someone that doesn’t look like what they imagined when reading, even if the character wasn’t fully described. It’s hard to please everybody and make a movie that caters to everyone’s head canon, especially since it would be contradictory!
I try to go in with no expectations and just accept the story as presented. I love Star Wars and want to enjoy it. Having this attitude has served me well.
Skew away!
I was just kicking around ideas
DH has watched both Clone Wars and Rebels and if there was another (I feel like I’m missing something) and loved them. He hated 1, 7 and 8, but thought 9 was fair and enjoyed 2 and 3.
Resistance was the third animated series. It is more geared toward the 5-9 age range, I’d say. But it was decent. DW and I enjoyed it.
I knew there was another!
Clone Wars is an excellent series and goes a long way for me in saving the prequel era, at least for me. I will say that telling a story where everyone knows what happens in the end in an interesting way is fairly difficult. I did find the Emperor slowly turning Anakin to the dark side vaguely interesting and reasonably done where you could see him slipping more and more into the dark side. But still getting through I and II on rewatches is difficult at best…
My Star Wars rankings! I had to choose that I enjoy all of them (event though Episode 1 is very low on my chart 2858/2981)
In all seriousness Jar Jar Binks is my favorite part of Star Wars
First time I watched it I wondered if Jim Henson had anything to with the character it reminded me of the Muppets