3rd November 2003, 3:10 PM
Well I respect your opinion.
Personally speaking, I found the main characters in AotC to be more interesting than the ones in the OT, mostly because I'm more attracted to tragic figures. Guess that's the Shakespeare fan in me. :) Seeing Anakin as a good, innocent young man then gradually begin to fall towards evil makes him more interesting than Luke, IMO. The whole point of the prequel trilogy is to see how everything in the OT came to be, but more importantly it shows how Anakin's voyage parallels Luke's, that they had to face very similar circumstances (you'll see more of that in Episode III) which ended differently because of the choices that they made. The OT is more like a swash-buckling Flash Gordon-esque series while the prequels are more political and Shakespearian (especially with the unrealistic, theatrical dialogue that critics hated). They're pretty different from each other, and they had to be that way.
Personally speaking, I found the main characters in AotC to be more interesting than the ones in the OT, mostly because I'm more attracted to tragic figures. Guess that's the Shakespeare fan in me. :) Seeing Anakin as a good, innocent young man then gradually begin to fall towards evil makes him more interesting than Luke, IMO. The whole point of the prequel trilogy is to see how everything in the OT came to be, but more importantly it shows how Anakin's voyage parallels Luke's, that they had to face very similar circumstances (you'll see more of that in Episode III) which ended differently because of the choices that they made. The OT is more like a swash-buckling Flash Gordon-esque series while the prequels are more political and Shakespearian (especially with the unrealistic, theatrical dialogue that critics hated). They're pretty different from each other, and they had to be that way.