J.J. Abrams: "I'd Welcome Gay Characters In STAR WARS"

[Alby_da_Wolf]

JWeinCom said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

 

I won't pick up individual examples, and I actually agree that adding details in many cases helps developing realistic characters and that having a gay character can be part of this, but Star Wars is a poor example, Lucas added so many unessential details to the prequel trilogy that he not only made it a bit boring, but then he felt forced to obsessively-compulsively and, what's worse, pedantically rewrite the original trilogy to make it match with the prequels, pissing off a large part of the old fans: Lucas, old geezer, who cares about your pedantic trimming, you should have just left enough things untold in the prequels to avoid having to ruin the old trilogy with that nonsense!

Of course you can go overboard, but I don't really think that was the problem with the prequels.  The prequels were boring because it had flat shitty characters.  Anakin seems as though he's simply waiting for his cue to turn evil, Natalie Portman only seems to like Anakin because the script demanded it, and the Jedi can't see the evil Sith Lord standing two inches from their face.

I actually think some more details to flesh out these characters would have been a good thing, assuming those details were chosen properly.  

I agree with you about using also details to make characters less shallow, the area that Lucas filled with too many details (and in a way not very clever too, to add insult to injury) wasn't in the characters, but in the plot of the prequels, he did it manically and pedantically, but also clumsily, he specified so many things that he could have left untold, that they ended up clashing with the original trilogy (although I can even imagine that in some cases they clashed just in his mind, the poor old jeezer isn't anymore the brilliant man of his glorious past) making him feel compelled to fix it, that actually didn't need it at all.

What happened is also one of the main reasons why I hate prequels.