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Do you consider the Star Wars prequels canon, I don't because they're badly told stories that are unnecessarily complicated and make little sense. Plinkett Explains it best on why I feel the prequels should be removed
TBH, the prequel trilogy is poorly directed anyway, so even if they're canon, other sources are what you'd REALLY refer to if you wanted to go in depth with intelligently written lore. Kinda like Black Library.
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I think they are fine, maybe not the best films, but I feel it's pretty arrogant for anyone sitting at a PC on the Net of all places to tell George Lucas that his films are not canon.
Rubbish, maybe if thats your view, a terrible shame that ruined the memory of the first three could be another, but at the end of the day Star Wars is Lucas' vision, whether we like where it went is neither here or there.
But by all means, folks have the right to moan about it till the end of time, but debating if they are canon, you'd need George in the room for that.
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Monster Rain wrote:These younglings don't realize that Lucas whoring out his franchise is nothing new. It stings a bit at first, but you get used to it eventually.
Don't make me mention the Christmas Special.
Jurassic Park 3. It was a kids movie.
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Monster Rain wrote:These younglings don't realize that Lucas whoring out his franchise is nothing new. It stings a bit at first, but you get used to it eventually.
Don't make me mention the Christmas Special.
Actually the Christmas Special was so bad even George Lucas didn't want anyone to see it.
The best thing I've seen about the blueray Star Wars release, was a guy on Amazon UK making a huge 'positive' review about how he couldn't wait to see the Christmas Special on HD.
I lol'd alot on that.
On a side note, not sure if this has been mentioned on Dakka yet.. but.. uh-oh.
Monster Rain wrote:Maybe some of you older gents will remember, but there were a lot of annoyed people when Jedi came out what with the muppets and all.
You know, my memory always gets foggy when I think about Jedi. Was Endor not a planet full of badass Wookies tearing the limbs off from stormtroopers left and right?
Cheesecat wrote:Do you consider the Star Wars prequels canon, I don't because they're badly told stories that are unnecessarily complicated and make little sense. Plinkett Explains it best on why I feel the prequels should be removed
One thing really annoys me about the review of The Phantom Menace, when he gets the people to describe Han Solo, and then Qui-Gonn, Han Solo had three films worth of character building for them to learn about, which most of those people would have seen at least once.
Qui-Gonn only had one film for people to learn about him, and they would only have seen it once, as it was a review, he wouldn't have done it much after the film was released.
It's massively biased against The Phantom Menace, not just in his not liking the film (which I can accept), but in his reasoning behind not liking the film.
Monster Rain wrote:Anyway, like it or not, if the guy who's in charge of SW says they're canon they are canon.
He doesn't get to make my decisions for me, much like I don't get to tell others what they should like or dislike. I barely recognize them as films, let alone connected to the original trilogy.
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Episodes 1-3 aren't as good as Episodes 4-6, by my random sampling of internet discussions on the topic.
However, they are from the creator. That makes them cannon.
You can deny it all you want. You can bury your head in the sand. You can cry to your mamas.
But Lucas created them, so they're cannon. Protest by not buying the Episodes 1-3 Blue Ray versions, Super Extended Versions, Black Boxed Set, 3D set, and the 2020 release of the Smell-o-vision version.
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Monster Rain wrote:Anyway, like it or not, if the guy who's in charge of SW says they're canon they are canon.
He doesn't get to make my decisions for me, much like I don't get to tell others what they should like or dislike. I barely recognize them as films, let alone connected to the original trilogy.
Well, that's fine, but outside of your personal perception things can still exist as facts. Whether you acknowledge these facts is completely up to you.
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Oh KK, you are my conscience. I wish they weren't cannon I guess would be the best way to put it, so I just think of them as mistakes by a Director past his prime in an insular environment; a failed experiment if you will.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
