Obi-Wan Kenobi has everyone nostalgic for the simpler days of the prequel era...but were the Star Wars Prequels really that good? How do the stack up against the Disney Sequel era? In this video we breakdown what works and doesn't work about the trilogies, and declare which one we like better.
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Hosted by Ryan Arey ( / ryanarey )
Produced by Bevin
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Srinidhi Rao, and Randolf Nombrado
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Bevin ( / bevinbatspice )
Adam Lance Garcia ( / adamlancegarcia )
With Obi-Wan coming around the corner fans are looking back on the prequels with a new sense of fondness. But just how fond? The prequels are notoriously divisive. Yet, even the last trilogy had fans pretty divided. So we began to wonder, how do the prequels compare to the sequel trilogy?
We can all agree that The original trilogy of Star wars is a masterpiece. You may not like parts of Jedi, or whatever, but this is a story that combined several genres and created an epic that speaks to everyone. Baseline, we all love those movies. Every Star Wars since then has borrowed or expanded upon some aspect of those movies. Even this guy in the cantian got a short story about him.
I’ve always thought the prequel fans were divided into two halves. There’s the people who watched them when they were kids, so they love them, and the people like me, who watched them as discerning young adults or teenagers. The problem is, we waited 16 years for a new Star Wars movie. That’s sixteen years of imagining what happened before the Tantive 4 was pursued by the star destroyer, 16 years of acting out stories without toys, 16 years of using curtain rods as lightsabers.
George Lucas could have easily made a movie that would have just given us what we wanted, more of the same. But instead he chases to try new things, to push the medium forward. He introduced so many ideas in the prequels that we now love and accept as canon. The padawan learner, the jedi council-death sticks. These movies had great ideas that were executed poorly.
I’m not going to pick the Prequels too hard, because everyone on the internet beat me to it, and I know Bevin and Adam and I are going to get into way more detail on that later on.
Now, Disney Star wars was the exact opposite. They were 100% willing to give people what they wanted, and terrified of anything new. It was like the edict from the mouse was, “if it’s not like the original trilogy, we don;t want it.” JJ Abrams seemed like the perfect guy to bring everything back to basics. He reinvigorated Star Trek with a shiny reboot that misunderstood the spirit of the franchise-and then he reinvigorated star wars with a grimy reboot that misunderstood the spirit of the franchise.
These are the first words spoken in the sequel trilogy [hopefully this will begin…] That is a pretty clear fuck you to George lucas, and a nod to fans that, don;t worry-I’m back. Like, look at the first look of the movie released. In this featurette, they love showing you that the movie is shot on film-just the original trilogy. And peter mayhew says this targeted line.
You thought there were too many politics in the prequels? Don't worry, we blew up the political planet? You thought clones were dumb, well giess what [we could make clines, no]. Ha! Clones are dukb. The force awakens did every fan service thing you can think of except for strapping Jar Jar to a sun crusher. The only thing the force awakens forgot to t=do was actually establish a lore and ongoing story that was worth telling.
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0:00 Failures of Force Awakens
4:00 Which Trilogy Has a Better Story?
11:00 Anakin's Turn isn't Earned
16:20 Best and Worst of Sequel Trilogy
22:13 Which Trilogy Has Better Production Values
29:00 Legacy of Prequels VS Sequels
32:50 Final Verdicts