hmm... you have some good points.
I think it is neccessary to show where Anakin came from, but as you said it could have been done when he was around Luke's age. Although I think it is important to show that Anakin has great Jedi abilities from a very young age.
I think it's also important that Anakin is an eager Jedi not reluctant... this shows his lust for power which is ultimately his downfall...
I guess we could sum it up like this:
Episode I: *twiddles thumbs*
Episode II: Ah, something happens at last. Nice, slow pace, maybe it'll explain more about some of the......what the? It's over already?
Episode III: Woah woah woah! Slow down! You ain't gonna have enough time for some characters going on here.... Maybe you shouldn't have wasted all that time making Jar Jar fall over in "hilarious" ways and spread this sh*t out a bit better.
Originally posted by DeVi| D0do
I think it is important to show that Anakin has great Jedi abilities from a very young age.
Why though? You could easily make Anakin a powerful Jedi when he takes up his Padawan role. Any Padawan that excels so quickly would be assumed to be amazingly gifted, right? There's no need to show Anakin doing amazing stuff at an early age, you can release all of his potential when he is at any age.
What about having Anakin at age 19, putting up a fight against Count Dooku or something, even though he's like Luke from ESB in terms of training. He puts up an amazing fight, which would seem impossible for any other Jedi given such limited training.
Having Anakin recieve minimal training and yet show natural affinity for all things Jedi would make him just as impressive as he ever was.
Originally posted by darthmaul1
I would have to say you need EPI to show the sith making their move, how palps comes into power and Anakin being pulled away from his mother. and is strong connection to the force.
There is no way you could just start with palps in power and anakin at 20, you need to see how they got there.
No you don't. That's the point. If that's the case, then why didn't they show Palpatine becoming a Senator? How did that happen? While we're at it, why didn't they show where Sidious came from? There's no need to explain so much. We really didn't need to see Palpatine become Senator, and we didn't need to see Palpatine become Chancellor. And it's obvious you didn't read anything I said about Anakins mother situation. Unecessary exposition that could have been subtely reworked to allow the events to flow more naturally.
For over twenty years, Star Wars fans have accepted the fact that The Emperor was in control, and that Luke began his training at 18(?) from day one.
I think people would have been able to accept the fact that Emperor started out as Chancellor, and Anakin started his training at 20, from day one.
Originally posted by darthmaul1
cause from the starting point of EPI this is how and when Palps/sidious make their move to kill the jedi and start the empire.
and that the way it should be.
I can see your point. Don't get me wrong, some of Ep I works, but man, the vast majority of it should have been left on the cutting room floor. Just some logical tweaking here and there, and you could still have all of these things occur in a more consistent timeline, and still, essentially, have the exact same plot, only with much more time to spare and spend on characterisation and more elaboration, as Episode III will be so unbelievably fast paced, it could seem forced to a lot of people, as though Lucas ran out of time. It's the pacing, that has been affected.
True true. I think it all could have been done differently...but oh well....won't happen now....Let's just hope Episode 3 dose a good job of what it does....
and for the record, I think Count Dooku is a far greater villian than Darth Maul. Darth Maul is good at fighting of course, but that makes for a better side character, than a leading villain, and who better to play it than one of the most classic villaianous actors, Christopher Lee, a truly great actor and great at dialouge. Nothing beats that voice, well except maybe James Earl Jones' of course....
I totaly agree stunrun the PT has all the elements of the OT with story development and characters and special effects ect.
and I enjoyed them just as much as the OT
some more than others the order for me in which I like them will be after EP3 comes out
3,5,2,4,1,6
It's a great story and lets you forget about all the crap that is going on in our world for a couple of hours or 12 🙂
If you don't like the prequels why keep watching them??
I can honestly say if I did not enjoy TPM then I would of given up and just stuck with the orginals.but this is star wars and that says it all. 😱
Talk about jumping the gun. You haven't even seen Episode 3 yet. I still like the films, but I don't believe you can come close in comparing them to the OT. The acting is pretty wooden in the new films, minus some people most notably Ewan McGregor, and all the famous actors such as Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Walken...Although I do believe that Hayden looks light he might pull it off better in Episode 3. I think it was mostly because he was given bad lines. Same goes for Natalie Portman. But the fx, whereas when the originals came out where the best around, and now there are far better fx movies than these Star Wars prequels which is sad really. Yes, I enjoy watching the prequels, but the OT are greater films.
Episode III is just like episode I and II.
The only difference is this movie is far more intence and we have more lightsaber fights.
We again see a Geonosis-like battle but now on Kashyyk, we have a space battle just like episode I and we again see a fake ninja turtle spinning around a sith-lord just as he did in episode II.
It's cool though... but it can NEVER EVER compare to the classic OT.
Let's face it Mark Hammill's acting was not that great, same with Carrie Fisher, Hayden was very good, but this again this is STAR WARS and we are not going to see it for the Fantastic acting.
another thing when most of us saw the OT we were kids and it has now had almost 30 years to be imbeded in our minds. Give the PT some time and you may be saying that it is fantastic, we know the kids that started with the PT will be saying that.
I do love the PT, and im not affraid to admit that✅ ok so the PT basically filled the gaps to make way for the OT, but hey! i like watching it all connect together, and to see where all the characters came to be, complete with some new characters along the way. But i totally agree with you Banshee, the PT will never surpass the originals. I had an amazing child hood because of the Originals, and you cant beat the adventure and the excitement that the Originals gave us✅
heres what i think the end result will be ( imho )
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
(First 2 Untouchable btw)
3. Revenge Of The Sith
4. Return Of The Jedi
5. Attack Of The Clones
6. The Phantom Menace