Remember when Star Wars got everybody excited? Then the Special Editions came out and confused everyone with added effects that didn’t necessarily add to the experience but for the most part didn’t take away either unless you have strong opinions over who shot first or really liked the special effects as an amazing product of their time. Then the prequels happened and the fans demanded Star Wars be “saved” from George Lucas, the franchises’ creator. Then the sequels happened under Disney and they learned someone used the monkey’s paw, thus regretting their wish.
This is one of those videos I couldn’t stop watching, though at just under three hours I did have to take breaks. That led to me not getting an article done for today so feel free to suffer my pain. From the YouTube channel Just A Robot we have a look at the original trilogy’s strengths and weaknesses, the prequel’s mistakes and triumphs, and the sequels’ failures and successes. He also looked at some of the extra media, like the two Clone Wars cartoons and spinoff movies, but even he saw he was using too much time. To that end there’s not much for me to say, and this is kind of a filler post tonight to meet deadline but it’s also this video’s fault such a move was needed.
When he does the follow-up on the other TV shows I hope he includes the Droids and Ewok cartoons as well as the two TV Ewok movies. I actually enjoyed the first one and I did a Saturday Night Showcase on Droids so it would interesting to hear his thoughts. Instead he’ll probably just focus on the Disney+ shows I haven’t seen because I don’t have Disney+ and frankly none of the shows look that interesting to me, not even The Mandalorian, as far as what I like to see from Star Wars. I did my own review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story if anyone’s curious. I did a Finally Watched on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and I also reviewed The Last Jedi after seeing it and I have no interest in Rise Of Skywalker, so I finally let myself be spoiled as to what happens. Turns out I’m missing nothing.
I haven’t hear a lot positive from the comics either, nor any Star Wars show that isn’t The Mandalorian or Andor. It’s like the best modern Star Wars has offered lately is a LEGO parody series and a show about youngling Jedi-in-training. Kids really are getting the better stuff sometimes and that’s why I watch more kids shows and older shows for every age group than modern grown-up shows.
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