Star Wars for the next generation

A) I,II and III; then the prequels.

or

B) What Zeek said

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Hmmmmmm, tough choice............................

I'm gonna go with B, what Zeek said.



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I don't really get the "Greedo shot" thing. In the original, original Star Wars he clearly had his gun out and pointing at Solo when he forced Solo back into the cantina to sit down at the table. And while they were talking Greedo kept his gun trained on Solo. If Solo fired first, or Greedo fired first really doesn't matter, because Greedo initiated the deadly action by holding Solo at gunpoint in the first place.


As for future viewings, I think a person must watch 4,5,6 first. Those are great movies, and as someone above said previously, they created a lot of mystery and suspense about many aspects of the "verse" of the film. 1,2, & 3 strip away the mystery in the most predicatbale and pedestrian ways possible, therefore completely ruining the overall experience.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I don't really get the "Greedo shot" thing. In the original, original Star Wars he clearly had his gun out and pointing at Solo when he forced Solo back into the cantina to sit down at the table. And while they were talking Greedo kept his gun trained on Solo. If Solo fired first, or Greedo fired first really doesn't matter, because Greedo initiated the deadly action by holding Solo at gunpoint in the first place.

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In the original, Greedo doesn't fire at all, Solo just wastes him. In the special addition, Lucas edited in Greedo shooting first/at the same time because he didn't want Solo to be viewed as a murderer but instead wanted him to just be defending himself. My problem is, it makes Solo less badass. It'd be like Whedon going back to do a special edition cut of firefly and editing it so that Dobson shoots at Mal instead of Mal just no-nonsense putting a bullet in his head because he doen't have time for Dobson's crap anymore.

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And Han's whole arc in the trilogy was that he was murderous, drug-running, criminal scum when we first meet him --his exposure to Luke and Leia changes him. That's the whole point of an arc.

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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:
When in the Hells did the prequels ever explain anything?

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When they explicitly identified Anakin Skywalker as Darth Vader and confirmed that Darth Vader is the father of both Luke and Leia.

The whole narrative of the original trilogy hinges on those two revelations --there's a reason why That Scene in ESB is one of the most famous scenes in all of cinema. It has to come completely out of the blue, yet make perfect sense only in hindsight, and it raises the stakes to a personal level for Luke (it's not just about killing a monster, it's about identifying with the "monster" and realizing that he has that same potential within himself).

By making it explicit, the prequels actually manage to rob the OT of that dramatic impact.

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
When they explicitly identified Anakin Skywalker as Darth Vader and confirmed that Darth Vader is the father of both Luke and Leia.

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*Y-wing port engine gets stunned/disabled*

Ok, that's a pretty huge thing, if you're starting with E1. (Well, I DID ask a question.)

Damn, that's a tough thing to fix for when I make my version of the prequels.

Hmmm....

Maybe the "two fathers, one son" thing, where Obi-Wan or Anakin could be the father, but we don't find out until later.


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