Re: May the Fourth Be With You!
The only ones out of the series that I found disappointing were the prequels, and that was just because George Lucas got way too self-indulgent with the CGI effects and got sloppy with the storytelling. The base story, itself, I liked...he just got lazy...like, rather than working the humor naturally into the story like he did with the banter in the original trilogy, he had scenes and moments that existed pretty much ONLY for comic relief, and as a result, made the associated characters weaker and less enjoyable than they could have been.
That set the precedent for similar scenes in the sequels, and I'm sure that, if the prequels hadn't done it, the sequels would have done it a lot less, if they did it at all.
In spite of that opinion, I don't think the prequels killed the series, or undermined it. I have plenty of issues with the sequels, and even a few moments in the original trilogy make me shake my head...
But I love the series, overall, and I wouldn't get rid of any of them (although there are plenty of details I would re-write if given the chance.) But I laugh a little any time I hear someone refer to any of them as 'fan service'... the very concept of a sequel is, in itself, fan service, so why should the sequel not deliver a little more?
This message was last edited by the user at 19:27, Sun 07 June 2020.