25th April 2018, 5:35 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:It's not just 'some political stuff', the entire plot of the trilogy is about how a democracy fell and was replaced with an evil murderous dictatorship, while a man raised among its protectors (the Jedi) turned on them and destroyed them. That's what the story of the prequels is, and it's well conceived and written.
The thing is ABF, just because the concept of a democracy falling to war mongering is a valid one to tell in a story, and the "point" of the story, it doesn't make it good. A story can have an admirable lesson but still be told utterly terribly. Heck, there are stories with reprehensible lessons that are told in absolutely amazing ways. "Thank You For Smoking" comes to mind. Basically, the "moral" of a story has almost nothing to do with whether it's good or bad.
Also, Trump is not half the war monger the Bush administration was. Trump's presidency has more in common with Idiocracy, and the Ster Wers prequels were not primarily about that politics stuff. It was about "family", apparently, according to George RR Lucas. I can forgive you for thinking it's about Palpatine though, since the movies themselves tend to meander around forgetting what they are about, not unlike the Hobbit trilogy.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)