In the end

I was just wondering, hardcore fans have waited for years to find out what it was like before the original Star Wars. Now that we know, now that we know all of the characters, their backgrounds, their personalities, are we really happy with it. Despite some bad acting and some just plain stupid characters, are we all satisfied with what it is. I know I am. This is just a thread to look back at the mystery before and what it is now. Now that it is all over.

*prepares for the onslaught of "Stupid Thread"s.* If this dosen't belong here tell me. Sorry for trying to make a good thread.

Oh yes, I like it very much. Leaving plot and so forth aside, the PT era is a much more interesting background setting.

Honestly, I don't even remember thinking about what came before ANH before the PT was released... It didn't matter to me.

Am I happy with how it turned out? I'm not unhappy... Sure, it could have been better, but after all the PT is just backstory. It's unnecessary, but I don't regret it was made.

And it's not like you have to pay particular attention to ANY of the PT... Just pretend it doesn't exist and the OT is just as it was 10 years ago...

I liked it though. It is nice to know the parents of Luke and Leia better. I was curious as to what they were really like.

i always wanted to know what they looked like...how darth vadar looked before he was alll eww in ROTJ

Originally posted by DeVi| D0do
Honestly, I don't even remember thinking about what came before ANH before the PT was released... It didn't matter to me.

Am I happy with how it turned out? I'm not unhappy... Sure, it could have been better, but after all the PT is just backstory. It's unnecessary, but I don't regret it was made.

And it's not like you have to pay particular attention to ANY of the PT... Just pretend it doesn't exist and the OT is just as it was 10 years ago...

I read a joke that said you know your a star wars fan if you would jump off a cliff to hear the name of Anakin's wife. I am quite happy with the characters and how they are made out to be. Are you?

after waiting 25 plus friggen years I can say yeah it werx fer me thumbsup

Originally posted by ESB- 1138
I disagree with the PT just being background story. You must see that the PT played an important role in the Star Wars story. TPM couldn't have been made and no one would have really cared but with ATOC and ROTS it was having Anakin (Who we first learned to be the greatest pilot in the galaxy to being Darth Vader) going down the darkside. I for one believe that Star Wars was incomplete with just the OT. The OT refers to events that happened in the PT for Luke and Ben talked about the Clone War and I for one always wanted to know what was the Clone War.

The Star Wars saga worked perfectly fine without the PT. And some would argue that it even worked better...

I was really disappointed. A part of me has always wanted to know who Vader really was, but then after I learned after the whole PT, I look at him in a whole new light...He isn't the bad, dark, menacing figure of evil that he was when I was 8..PT ruined vader.

Really? It gave Vader more feeling to me in the OT. Now he isn't just some random bad guy trying to rule the galaxy. Now he was once someone trying to protect the galaxy but fell to the darkside for someone's twisted plan.

TPM and the bad acting that followed it, with the exception of Christopher Lee, completely ruined my perspective of the backstory.

TPM was too childish, it was a kid's movie.
AOTC had the worst acting of all 6 movies.
ROTS was better, but missing.......something.

I love all 6 chapters. Some parts more, some less. I don't apologize for it; I Love the OT, love the PT. The pieces all fell together for me watching the PT. It was like finishing a complicated jigsaw puzzle.

It was basically ALL a kid's movie, but one that dealt with universal truths and choices and struggles. I am very happy with it.

Originally posted by SS_181st_Snow
I was really disappointed. A part of me has always wanted to know who Vader really was, but then after I learned after the whole PT, I look at him in a whole new light...He isn't the bad, dark, menacing figure of evil that he was when I was 8..PT ruined vader.

Anakin only just became Vader though, he's got a whole 20yr gap to fill of being bad ass...I'd say he'd be a total bad ass after ep3, when he's lost everything and has nothing to go back to...he's all confused about what he should be doing in ep3...

Originally posted by Tangible God
TPM and the bad acting that followed it, with the exception of Christopher Lee, completely ruined my perspective of the backstory.

TPM was too childish, it was a kid's movie.
AOTC had the worst acting of all 6 movies.
ROTS was better, but missing.......something.

Yeah...well, I dont mind TPM being too childish, but it seems like the odd one out...AOTC had nothing really interesting storywise, asides from Anakin/Padme and the Clones, it could have had a stronger Anakin/Obi Wan bond though.....

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Oh yes, I like it very much. Leaving plot and so forth aside, the PT era is a much more interesting background setting.

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I did wonder, at some point or another, about the times when Jedi were more plentiful. Of course, it was nothing at all like we see in the PT.

That, and Anakin was one of those huge, muscle-bounded, morally amazing characters that one day screwed himself over somehow by falling in debt to Palpatine and betraying the Jedi.

That, and Vader killed him. 😄 (I hadn't seen ESB yet)

And I was 7! 😱

i kinda liked the original concept of vader more-he singed his lungs and scarred himself on mustafar, requiring a breath mask. then he lost his limbs and gradually became more and more mechanical as he hunted down jedi, eventually piecing together the black suit

Well, the fans will have to assume that still happens somewhat. If you look at him while Palpatine is shocking the hell out of him, you can see that he has a neck brace fused to his bone.

Although I havent been a star wars fan since it came out (I wasnt even alive in 1977) I became a 'hardcore' fan when the SE came out in 1997 and I've loved every minute of the PT.
PT answered many questions i had as a child. What were the clone wars?, how did Anakin become Darth Vader? etc. It also turned up interesting and exciting revelations, new characters and situations. If i had my way I would maybe have done one or two things differently, but looking back on it all, it all turned out brilliantly 🙂

Originally posted by Captain REX
Well, the fans will have to assume that still happens somewhat. If you look at him while Palpatine is shocking the hell out of him, you can see that he has a neck brace fused to his bone.

Isn't that his voicebox? I mean before episode III, it was assumed that that was an implant to restore spinal function cause he broke C-3 on mustafar but now it just looks like a voicebox implant. Plus, even with his level of power and training, i find it highly doubtfull that he could massacre a temple full of Jedi without a scratch to show for it.

I do think of Vader a little differently now, but it is still nice to see what he looked like and what his personality was like. I don't see the purpose of Jar Jar Binks but I am not going to start that in here. Now we know the background of Luke and Leia's family.