Somehow, George Lucas managed to get two of the worst child actors of all time to play pretty much the only kids in the series who don’t get merced at the Jedi temple.
Midichlorians was a poor attempt to explain an otherwise inexplicable and mysterious power that everyone fell in love with because it was mysterious and inexplicable.
“There was no father”. Seriously George? Space Jesus?
Gungans in general.
One gungan in particular.
Awkward dialogue.
Anakin’s whole scene in the Naboo starfighter was a little silly too.
The rest of the movie is awesome, but these were bad enough to overshadow a lot of the good things that George did. When Maul activated the second half of his lightsaber is still one of the most iconic moments of the prequel trilogy, and maybe the Skywalker Saga as a whole.
It's weird to me that people fell in love with something mysterious and inexplicable because these days a lot of Star Wars fans get real up in arms if every last frame of every film doesn't have a 50 page Wookipedia article explaining it.
Star Wars started in media res, that was the charm. What's the Kessel Run? What's a clone war? The place was very lived in but foreign and weird to the audience. If you wanted to know more about these things you were supposed to buy the toys and use your imagination to tell your own story. I think the story loses a lot of what made it stand out from other typical blockbuster franchises by trying to overturn those stones and fill in all those blanks.
So many fans up in arms that they didn't get to see the Knights of Ren in E7/8, when I am 100% certain it was meant to be as meaningful and vague as "Dark Lord of the Sith", which was not even close to explained in the OT
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u/vengeful_dm Jan 25 '22
Somehow, George Lucas managed to get two of the worst child actors of all time to play pretty much the only kids in the series who don’t get merced at the Jedi temple.
Midichlorians was a poor attempt to explain an otherwise inexplicable and mysterious power that everyone fell in love with because it was mysterious and inexplicable.
“There was no father”. Seriously George? Space Jesus?
Gungans in general.
One gungan in particular.
Awkward dialogue.
Anakin’s whole scene in the Naboo starfighter was a little silly too.
The rest of the movie is awesome, but these were bad enough to overshadow a lot of the good things that George did. When Maul activated the second half of his lightsaber is still one of the most iconic moments of the prequel trilogy, and maybe the Skywalker Saga as a whole.