Fuck, I forgot how sad that movie is.
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It’s crazy to think Anakin could have had everything he ever wanted. He would have been granted the rank of master in due time, he could have lived happily ever after with the woman he loved. But instead he was groomed and manipulated by some creepy old fuck. It’s really sad.
… the kids who grew up with the prequels became the majority on the internet. The original hate was from those who grew up with the original Trilogy.
I’m defs one of those kids. I think the prequels hate is being blown out of proportion to discredit the sequels hate. My dad loved OGs and the prequels. I grew up playing all the snes star wars games. Darth Vader gave me nightmares watching the OGs in preparation for TPM. We saw Episodes 1 & 2 in theatre together. At school Phantom Menace was THE most culturally relevant thing to us kids I can remember before 9/11.
So people lose me with the “Sequels are the young generation’s Star Wars” argument. Cuz my generation didn’t reject the OG’s at all. Everyone I knew as a kid was collecting star wars cards/lego from both TPM and OGs.
IMO Star Wars fans we’re well within their rights to have higher expectations of the sequels than the prequels… for the simple fact that the sequels are the end of the saga. People can push through a slow start but a story with a bad ending is never cherished.
Grew up, in this case, would mean your childhood included said media. Yeah, you had the OT in your childhood too, but the prequels weren’t strangers there either. Adult star wars fans at the time wanted something for their nostalgia.
How do you quantify that beyond your own anecdotal experience though? As you identified, that was a pre internet era. From my sample study, my dad, and all my friends parents, enjoyed the prequels, took us to theatres, and bought us a tonne of merch.
I think Disney is just using this as a scapegoat to cover up the fact that they bought the most successful franchise in the world and killed it.
