Return of Jed's eye

[Havard]

No! The ending worked fine for nearly two decades.

 

GL, who can't write for shite (FACT), obviously lost sight of the whole mythos and turned out some CGI toss to impress the kids and left no room for a believable story. C'mon, Anakin's fall, the destruction of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire were just treated so lightly. No gravitas whatsoever.

 

I hate him. I'm not just saying that. I really do hate him for what he did to SW.

 

I hate to be the one to point this out, but it's not actually real Martin!

 

H.

[creative]

star wars was on? oh well.... back to scrapheap challenge!

 

well I actually got as far as the greedy fat bastid and chewie was captured... so to stop myself falling asleep.. I turned over. I know some wont agree with me on this but....Its all rubbish!

[juanchan]

NO! the second trilogy is utter shite and Lucas should be tortured slowly for pissing on the SW universe and on the people who were fans of SW for 20-odd years.

 

To basically turn around and say that Anakin's fall to the Dark Side is essentially just a teenage tizzy and the result of being easily led is a disgrace. He should never, EVER have been allowed to write or direct the prequels.

 

The beardy, no-necked tosser.

 

I agree with that, especially Jar Jar Boinks ... they should have done the creatures without CGI as it just doesn't look right compared to IV, V & VI.

 

Saying that, watch them all to know what and why the ending is how it is ... is a good idea.

 

No! The ending worked fine for nearly two decades.

 

GL, who can't write for shite (FACT), obviously lost sight of the whole mythos and turned out some CGI toss to impress the kids and left no room for a believable story. C'mon, Anakin's fall, the destruction of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire were just treated so lightly. No gravitas whatsoever.

 

I hate him. I'm not just saying that. I really do hate him for what he did to SW.

 

I have to agree with Martin on this one. At the end of Episode 2, there was no implication of the immense evil yet to be released from Anakin, other than a stereotypical teenage "fad" of wanting to do the exact opposite of what those superior to himself say so. The result was a complete anticlimax in Episode 3 of him being converted to the dark side.

 

However, having not seen the first 3 films in a few years now (I've managed to be busy the last 3 Sunday afternoons), I'm tempted by a weekend Star Wars-athon involving all 6 films. Anyone fancy a weekend long meet?

[Rob]

He should never, EVER have been allowed to write or direct the prequels.

 

The beardy, no-necked tosser.

 

 

He did actually write it all in one go, all nine episodes, right at the beginning.

[RedM]

He did actually write it all in one go, all nine episodes, right at the beginning.

 

I don't believe that. After the original trilogy it was written that he had plans for further tales and knew what would be going into them.

 

After the PM came out he was saying it'd been written for the entire time.

 

The obvious question is why he didn't start at the beginning in 1977 and he's failed to answer this properly. Some fanbois have defended him by saying that technology couldn't produce the first three films back then.

 

Worked alright for the OT though, didn't it.

 

I think he's a revisionist chancer who can't write for toffee.

[Rob]

Well I'd always understood that he'd written the whole thing, but producer types said "No way can we make that, it's enormous" and plucked out Ep IV as the best story. Book publishers will often do that by taking out a mid-story exciting chapter and sticking it at the front to immediately hook the reader into the story, rather than letting it plod along chronologically.

 

Not much technology existed in 1976 to make Ep IV, Lucas had to start it all himself.