What would you do if The Force Awakens is worse than the prequels?

[DivinePaladin]

Soundwave said:

DivinePaladin said:

Luke and Leia both have strong connections to the Force. With the Force always having been a plot convenience that can fill holes, since V, it's a safe assumption that anyone can make that Leia has false memories because of the Force being strong within her. Not to mention, you quoted a very vague statement not unlike something people experience in real life, be it an out of body experience or, y'know, just a damn dream.

 

Yes, there are flaws with the prequel trilogy, but the entire series has honestly never been good from any sort of literary perspective. Original Trilogy fanatics love to go and point out how bad the Prequels are using flimsy evidence, and then as soon as a problem is thrown into the OT, they go and quote the EU to justify it as if a prequel section of the EU doesn't exist and explain, say, Obi Wan's experiences with Anakin as a pilot during the twelve years or so we don't see in between I and II or the couple years between II and III. Not saying you personally, mind you, I'm just stating something about the fans in general. 

 

The Star Wars series, coming from somebody who loves it, is a bad series. There's a lot wrong with every single facet of every single episode. The only true difference between the original and prequel trilogies is that the Prequels are quite a bit angstier at times, but even then Luke has his moments. Also, Jar Jar. That was entirely unneeded, but at least Lucas lampshaded how bad he was by making him directly responsible for the Empire rising.

 

TL;DR Thirty years of idolizing one half of something only to get a second half that's not perfect is always going to lead to this sort of hatred we always see for the Prequels. It's no different than old timers saying "my music in my day was better than this wub wub shit!" 

The prequels have NO EMOTION. No urgency. No believable character relationships. Horrific dialogue. 

I'm sorry but there is a large difference between the OT and prequels. The prequels are sterile, stiff cartoons with zero charm. Is there even a single quotable line from the prequels?

You're not serious if you're trying to say that Ewan MacGregor's performances weren't solid at the very least. He was the perfect fit for Obi Wan, and IMO he brought out many of the scenes he was in. Christiansen did suck the life out of a lot of scenes but he did do the Sith transition pretty well. Well, when he was silent and angry. Anakin could've been cast better, nobody's gonna argue that, but the supporting cast as a whole was fairly solid, even if some episode villains were a bit underused/underrepresented. But then, we had little of the heroes in the OT, so that sort of thematically ties in, so I can accept that.

 

Charm doesn't make up for movies being bad, for the record. The OT was badly written and saved only by better casting and a simpler era. Let's remember that most of the quotable lines from the OT came from an actor known for going off-script. Need I go into the whole surprise second death star cop-out, or the "oh, we killed the Emperor and won one battle, we beat the Empire!" crap that's currently canon because the EU was removed, or the Ewoks (in some peoples' eyes - I personally defend the Ewoks), or the hilarious Bespin table scene, or Vader's last minute change of heart after about two decades of being evil because plot, et alia? Feel free to defend them, but that doesn't make them good plot points. 

 

I will admit I stretched a tad when I said "the ONLY difference," because that's a bit too generalized. But both trilogies are pretty damn bad and I love them both for that. If your rose-glasses make you disagree, join the club. 

 

Edit: But it could be worse. The Empire could've split in half after VI and the emperor's clone runs one half and then random Sith betrayals and Luke goes Sith for like a month trying to save somebody from having gone Sith...I could go on but that's just a TOTAL mess.