I think it was the words 'The greedy Trade Federation' that did it for me.
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With a prequel, all that imagination is devoted to devising ways to shoehorn the existing characters into the old story, to pretend they all knew each other back then. The universe gets smaller as we find out that every page of history contains the same dozen names. The fantastic, magical universe starts to seem like something some guy just sat down and wrote.
So, so true - in fact, I think I'll take this as my new sig. Ever since TPM, the SW universe has been getting smaller and smaller: it's supposed to be taking place over a galaxy with trillions of inhabitants, and yet the Prequels would have us believe that just about every person, droid and animal in the OT is somehow connected to the main characters. It doesn't seem to occur to Lucas that each new coincidence places an exponentially greater strain on the viewer's sense of disbelief. Vader being Luke's father was surprising and cool; Leia being his sister was a bit much, but bearable; but Greedo the bounty hunter being Anakin's childhood friend is
way beyond what any sane person can be expected to accept.
I don't entirely agree that the Prequels were doomed from the start - I still maintain that they could have been far, far better than they actually were - but I do agree with pretty much everything else in the article. He has a good point about the special effects - everything in the PT looks impossibly new and clean and shiny. The ships, droids and vehicles in the OT looked real because they
were real, unlike those in the PT, which all look like they've only just come off the production line.
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The sandpeople had women and children. We know this because Anakin killed them how could he tell? The children might be smaller but I never saw a sandperson with breasts. Did they hike their skirts and show him some leg or something?
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Also, I can see the point of wanting to kidnap a human and use her as a slave, but they didn't. They tied her to a flimsy easel for a month. It's assumed they had to feed and give her water. What for? Was she purely ornamental? I can understand them wanting the droids, you can sell those for a lot of money, but a chick who's only skills are finding non-existand mushrooms and getting randomly pregnant, you're not going to get much.
- J m HofMarN on the Sand People