12th March 2010, 11:13 PM
"Great Rumbler Wrote:...I have a feeling that Lucas whipped out a script for each movie in a week or so and just went with it since there was really nothing on the line for him by the time the PT came around.
Yeah but where on Earth does that feeling come from? I'd like to say that Lucas had a lot on the line - first of all, it's his life's work and reputation at stake, not to mention all the money he had invested in it. I honestly don't see the PT and OT being that much different. They're both full of camp and odd dialogue and bad acting and all that stuff. Really, I think it lies purely in the nostalgia value, the OT v. PT debate. OT purists watched the movies when they were young and the feeling they first got from first watching them was like, a magical experience. It's damn near impossible to expect that that feeling can ever be recreated, especially when they've aged 16 years or so. People change as they get older, which I think accounts for all this hatred of the PT from older folks. They just can't come to grips with the fact that Star Wars has passed them by. Young kids whose first introduction to Star Wars was the PT probably feel the same way as the older generation did the first time they watched ANH. To me, those experiences are far more interesting and relevant at this point. I'm tired of the old shit, let's bring on the new shit.