I like the prequels for the backstory and world building in an era we hadn’t known about yet. But the only redeeming thing about them is the show the clone wars. Without it, it would be a huge mess.
Clone Wars gives a lot of necessary context that just isn’t there otherwise.
Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith suffer greatly by feeling like the 1st and 3rd movie of a trilogy that we just don’t have the second part of, so Clone Wars bridging that gap (and giving Anakin character development so that his fall to the dark side means something beyond “Emo former-slave farmboy has bad dream and goes on killing spree”, seriously Anakin sucked before Clone Wars redeemed him.)
I like Phantom Menace, but it’s too heavily disconnected in the timeline from the other two movies in the trilogy for it to really work with them, which is funny because if you ask me what my favorite Star Wars film the list would be.
Occupying Slot #1 - All of them for different reasons
Occupying Slot #9 - Attack of the Clones
Honestly I think in a decade or so we’ll come to see the sequels become beloved much like the prequels were, and for similar reasons (younger genreation that grew up with them, memes, and media that fills in plot holes now existing)
I doubt the sequels become more well thought of. It’s already been 5 years from ROS a decade from TFA and nothing has really changed in a positive direction.
It took the prequels quite awhile, people STILL hated them when TFA came out… That was the whole point of trying to make it look and feel as much like the OT as possible.
There are people that still hate the prequels, but they are the clear minority. Even on release the hate wasn’t as strong for the prequels as it has been for the sequels. Some of it may be the toxic behavior of Disney outside the movies themselves, but that’s a self inflicted wound.
The clone wars makes more of a mess of the prequels than the movies on their own IMO.
In general the show was mid, the last two seasons were alright but that’s it. And to be fair they were limited by what they could tell or explore in it, and they probably did the best they could, but tartakovsky’s version will always be the superior one in my eyes.
Tartakovsky’s version is superior by far. It did get slightly referenced in season 7 of the clone wars, though, and I still consider it to be partially cannon.
I like the prequels for the backstory and world building in an era we hadn’t known about yet. But the only redeeming thing about them is the show the clone wars. Without it, it would be a huge mess.
Clone Wars gives a lot of necessary context that just isn’t there otherwise.
Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith suffer greatly by feeling like the 1st and 3rd movie of a trilogy that we just don’t have the second part of, so Clone Wars bridging that gap (and giving Anakin character development so that his fall to the dark side means something beyond “Emo former-slave farmboy has bad dream and goes on killing spree”, seriously Anakin sucked before Clone Wars redeemed him.)
I like Phantom Menace, but it’s too heavily disconnected in the timeline from the other two movies in the trilogy for it to really work with them, which is funny because if you ask me what my favorite Star Wars film the list would be.
Occupying Slot #1 - All of them for different reasons Occupying Slot #9 - Attack of the Clones
Honestly I think in a decade or so we’ll come to see the sequels become beloved much like the prequels were, and for similar reasons (younger genreation that grew up with them, memes, and media that fills in plot holes now existing)
I doubt the sequels become more well thought of. It’s already been 5 years from ROS a decade from TFA and nothing has really changed in a positive direction.
It took the prequels quite awhile, people STILL hated them when TFA came out… That was the whole point of trying to make it look and feel as much like the OT as possible.
There are people that still hate the prequels, but they are the clear minority. Even on release the hate wasn’t as strong for the prequels as it has been for the sequels. Some of it may be the toxic behavior of Disney outside the movies themselves, but that’s a self inflicted wound.
The clone wars makes more of a mess of the prequels than the movies on their own IMO.
In general the show was mid, the last two seasons were alright but that’s it. And to be fair they were limited by what they could tell or explore in it, and they probably did the best they could, but tartakovsky’s version will always be the superior one in my eyes.
Well, then you’re lost.
Tartakovsky’s version is superior by far. It did get slightly referenced in season 7 of the clone wars, though, and I still consider it to be partially cannon.
I believe they retconned it back into cannon with that tentacle beast showing up in one of the Marvel comics
Wow
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