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[–] finley@lemm.ee 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I like the prequels for the backstory and world building in an era we hadn’t known about yet. But the only redeeming thing about them is the show the clone wars. Without it, it would be a huge mess.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Clone Wars gives a lot of necessary context that just isn't there otherwise.

Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith suffer greatly by feeling like the 1st and 3rd movie of a trilogy that we just don't have the second part of, so Clone Wars bridging that gap (and giving Anakin character development so that his fall to the dark side means something beyond "Emo former-slave farmboy has bad dream and goes on child killing spree", seriously Anakin sucked before Clone Wars redeemed him.)

I like Phantom Menace, but it's too heavily disconnected in the timeline from the other two movies in the trilogy for it to really work with them, which is funny because if you ask me what my favorite Star Wars film the list would be.

Occupying Slot #1 - All of them for different reasons Occupying Slot #9 - Attack of the Clones

Honestly I think in a decade or so we'll come to see the sequels become beloved much like the prequels were, and for similar reasons (younger genreation that grew up with them, memes, and media that fills in plot holes now existing)

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt the sequels become more well thought of. It's already been 5 years from ROS a decade from TFA and nothing has really changed in a positive direction.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

It took the prequels quite awhile, people STILL hated them when TFA came out.. That was the whole point of trying to make it look and feel as much like the OT as possible.