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PaperclipPerfector  29d ago (text post)   2700 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 7, 2025

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How does your interpretation of the Prequels change as a result of the Sequel Trilogy? I'll admit I still haven't seen Ep 8-9, because the first sequel was so unbelievably stupid that I didn't understand what the point was supposed to be anymore.

I grew up with Joseph Campbell interviewed at Skywalker Ranch. Star Wars was both low culture and high culture, and the Prequels played into that: they had grand ambitions to talk about racism and philosophy and ambition and fear. ROTS was a great effort in that direction, I just ultimately think there wasn't enough runway in the films themselves. Friends of mine who consumed stuff like the Clone Wars series liked ROTS better, it was one of the first franchises that found itself in need of side material to work.

I'm 33 now, I was primed for Episode I when it came out, and I loved it. I consumed the side material voraciously, the padawan series with young obi wan learning jedi philosophy, that kind of thing. By the time III came out, I was increasingly bored of it, and had moved on, and I've never quite come back.

How does your interpretation of the Prequels change as a result of the Sequel Trilogy?

You are mistaken, comrade. There was no sequel trilogy.

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