One of my many nerd groups I’m is is one for pre-Disney Star Wars fans which is mainly an EU group and we were talking about how all these shill sites have so many good things to say about the EU now when I can remember them talking about how bad it was when Disney took over. Honestly that was my first awareness of the shill media because nerd sites who were pretty positive about the EU all of a sudden started crapping on it once Disney got rid of it.
Some of the guys see this as a positive sign but I guess I’m cynical because I think they just realize that the sequels and a lot of Disney Star Wars isn’t as popular as they want us to believe. Plus I hear the OT toys still sell pretty well.
So what do y’all think? Is this a positive sign or am I right to be cynical?
Older Lucas made mistakes.
He is human. And I wont be angry at him for fucking around and finding out. He tried, did you?
Say what you will, I can prove prequels are memorable. Just by pulling up memes. Evidence that it sticks with people. I see the laying in the fields "you mean this , right?" meme almost every fucking day. Or the "I hate sand".
You dont get that out of the new ones, barely remember em, and I saw most of em.
And even the originals get quoted, memed reprised all the time, proving its iconographic value.
Prequels dont need to be better, they need to fit. And the star wars prequel fit in as the TLDR of what led to 5. I will never forget Vader getting off the table and going "Noooooo"
What a wholesome rehash of that scene.