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« on: May 23, 2018, 06:45 AM »
I certainly like the sequels better than the prequels. The only problem is that it seems they are making this up as they go and don't have an overall vision for the three movies. I would bet that things in TLJ would have been quite different if JJ was doing all three movies. I can understand the hate for Rose, not because she is Asian, but because she is a bad character. She really wasn't needed. I really didn't like the forced psuedo love triangle that was put into the movie. The numbered films are supposed to the Skywalker's story. I can understand the whole "let it go" thing and moving on, but who knows if we will see an Episode X and beyond. Really, the easy and obvious storyline would have been to make Rey Luke's daughter and continue the story through her. You can still kill off the big three and pass the torch, but you still make the story of the Skywalker family. I think Rian Johnson was a bit hamfisted with the "anyone can be a Jedi" thing. I think we already knew that since the prequels had maybe one or two non-Skywalker Jedi in them.
As for the anthology films, most of the prequels should have been the Clone Wars equivalent of the Battle of Scariff. For those of us who grew up with the OT, we always wanted to know about the Clone Wars that Obi-wan spoke about. In the PT, we get one movie of little Anakin that has little to do with the Clone Wars. Essentially, that movie could have been 10-15 mins. Then when we finally get to see the Clone army come into existence, we get about 10 minutes of the Clone Wars, and only the opening battle. When we get to the final prequel, the Clone Wars are essentially over. I'm fine with the Clone Wars cartoon, but I would have rather seen that type of action on the big screen instead of the boredom of TPM and AOTC.