The Prequels do too make sense
#1
Posted 05 June 2005 - 06:37 AM
You have to understand that the prequels are not told from a neutral perspective -they are not Lucas showing us what happened before the OT. Instead, the prequels are supposed to be the propeganda movies put out by the Empire, telling its subjects why the Republic and the Jedi had to go and how the Empire and its key officials came into being.
Viewed that way, the prequels absolutely make sense and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#2
Posted 05 June 2005 - 07:04 AM
- J m HofMarN on the Sand People
#3
Posted 05 June 2005 - 07:11 AM
That's a unique perspective but no argument behind it. Details, puuhhleezze.
#4
Posted 05 June 2005 - 07:22 AM
- J m HofMarN on the Sand People
#7
Posted 05 June 2005 - 10:05 AM
Don't say that!!
This is an original explanation but they may want to work on making Palpatine a little less evil in the next batch of propaganda films.
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#8
Posted 05 June 2005 - 11:33 AM
Yes, and Anakin a bit less of a whiny bitch. Not to mention improving his pick-up lines a little.
- J m HofMarN on the Sand People
#9
Posted 05 June 2005 - 12:30 PM
That's a very unique defense of the prequels... and I guess it explains why Anakin is such a little bratty lout... they wanted to show how good the Empire is by turning a seemingly hopeless case individual like Anakin into something more productive!
#10
Posted 05 June 2005 - 02:25 PM
You have to understand that the prequels are not told from a neutral perspective -they are not Lucas showing us what happened before the OT. Instead, the prequels are supposed to be the propeganda movies put out by the Empire, telling its subjects why the Republic and the Jedi had to go and how the Empire and its key officials came into being.
Viewed that way, the prequels absolutely make sense and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Yeah, right. I can't believe you actually believe this. This is definitely the saddest excuse that I've ever seen.
#11
Posted 05 June 2005 - 03:32 PM
I had at one point I had an interesting idea where Luke is on Coruscant and he finds a Jedi living in the squalid back alleys. He brings this hobo-like character some soup, telling him that he's okay now, that the Empire is defeated etc., and this character tells Luke that he was once a Jedi Knight who had escaped the purge.
Doubtful, Luke asks this character about Obi-Wan and his father, and out of the character's addle-pated, delusional mind he concocts the story which we see now as the Prequels.
I decided to call this character Jee-Orj Lookaas.
This post has been edited by CowboyCurtis: 05 June 2005 - 03:35 PM
Battle for the Galaxy--read the "other Star Wars"
All I know is I haven't seen the real prequels yet.
#12
Posted 05 June 2005 - 04:02 PM
floppydisk, did you read the rest of this thread?
- J m HofMarN on the Sand People
#14
Posted 05 June 2005 - 06:42 PM
You have to understand that the prequels are not told from a neutral perspective -they are not Lucas showing us what happened before the OT. Instead, the prequels are supposed to be the propeganda movies put out by the Empire, telling its subjects why the Republic and the Jedi had to go and how the Empire and its key officials came into being.
Viewed that way, the prequels absolutely make sense and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Ah-hah. That explains why none of the good guys in the PT are all that likable. Thanks much!
#15
Posted 05 June 2005 - 06:47 PM
Casual Fan - care to back up that propaganda statement about propaganda...
for instance, why would an Imperial propaganda movie include Obi-Wan's impassioned "You were the chosen one!", be told from the perspective of the Jedi, have such clunky foreshadowing and if it was an imperial propaganda movie there is a lot of stuff that only the good guys know - if the Imperial propaganda movie knew that Obi-Wan hagrided Luke to the Lars family, why didn't newborn Vader go and retrieve his son straight off.
I'm amusing that CF was being sarcastic... I hope.