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Did the prequels have to be about Anakin?

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Posted 16 May 2005 - 04:54 PM

Why do we need to know where Vader came from?
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Posted 16 May 2005 - 05:04 PM

Because, people want to know who the greatest villian on the OT was before he was in the suit.
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Posted 16 May 2005 - 05:11 PM

I don't see the allure. I didn't hear many people clamouring to know who Palpatine was before he put on the bathrobe.

Anyway, now that I do know who Vader was before the suit, I wish I didn't. sad.gif
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Posted 16 May 2005 - 05:22 PM

Some people wish it to remain a mystery... each of us have our own opinions about Star Wars.
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Posted 16 May 2005 - 05:37 PM

QUOTE (StarWarsIsUs)
Some people wish it to remain a mystery... each of us have our own opinions about Star Wars.


I wish Boba Fett could've remained a mystery. He was an awesome character when he was introduced in ESB. Not knowing where he came from gave great imgination to think about where he might've came from. He was my absolute favortie of the OT years ago.
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Posted 16 May 2005 - 07:15 PM

I NEVER understood why Boba Fett was popular with anyone!? NEVER.

A bit part. Just some guy/alien whatever in a suit and dorky looking helmet.
Interesting ship though.
Other than that he doesn't do anything 'cept stand there and in RotJ gets killed accidentally by Han who was friggin' blind?
That's a pathetic death for a nothing character.

I'd always figured he was some kind of 'creature' too 'cuz in the SW universe chances are if you're a biped you're probably not a human -for all the species they show.

Nope, turns out he was an Australian? Go figure.

And shows lucas promotes racicsm in a damn fictional fantasy world -showing only Human-looking creatures are the ones who do the big important things around the galaxy.
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Posted 17 May 2005 - 12:28 AM

I think the Lucas cop out would be "It was the droids story". tongue.gif

Ok not really, we all know they were there to serve as narrators. I believe I read somewhere that he modeled their story function along the same lines as the two peasant farmers in the Seven Samuria.

I wish the PT would have started right in the throes of the Clone Wars. It seems like the Clone Wars were just an after-thought, which was I think sort of foolish on Lucas's part. Have them raging as a back-drop through-out the entire 3 movies! Much more intriguing. Just too much went on in too short a time-period.
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Posted 17 May 2005 - 07:17 AM

I agree, Boba Fett was a mystery, and he should have remained a mystery. He shouldn't even have been in the PT. How stupid was that? And to make him a 'clone son' of the guy who was the speciman for all the clones? That's totally stupid. IMO.
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Posted 17 May 2005 - 08:19 AM

QUOTE (StarWarsIsUs @ May 17 2005, 08:17 AM)
I agree, Boba Fett was a mystery, and he should have remained a mystery. He shouldn't even have been in the PT. How stupid was that? And to make him a 'clone son' of the guy who was the speciman for all the clones? That's totally stupid. IMO.


I agree. It seems totally thrown in.

And as for the clones themselves...don't even get me started.

Clones I can forgive. The Clone Wars are mentioned in the OT, so we assume they have the technology.

But there is no possible advantage to cloning just ONE person and having that be the basis for an ENTIRE army. And obviously Jango isn't THAT great of a warrior, since he gets picked off by the Jedis in like two seconds.

I could understand genetically engineering a kind of "super-warrior" and then using THAT specimen as a kind of template. Or cloning SEVERAL different specimens for specialized purposes. That's the way to build a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. But to assume that Jango Fett, a human, is the most supreme specimen in an entire fucking galaxy brimming with countless intelligent species...that is just ridiculous.
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Posted 17 May 2005 - 01:50 PM

I think the PT would have been a total failure if it had not introduced Anikin as a character. I think also however that his death should have been a mystery, not at Obi-Wan's hands; Obi-Wan should have believed Vader had killed him, or something like that. The revelation in ep V should have been a surprise to anyone who watched the series in order. Of course, this means rewriting Ben's nonsensical backpedaling in JEDI, but you all know where I stand on that.

The rewrite of the PT has to begn with JEDI. Otherwise, what's the big deal? Who cares that the PT is a bunch of nonsense, and that seen in order the series has no mystery? We already know it ends foolishly!
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).
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