This whole trilogy made the prequel trilogy look like George Lucas knew what he was doing.
I probably said this before in this long-ass thread but the prequels actually managed to expand the universe of star wars! naboo architecture and ship designs were interesting! the alien races were fun! they sold a shit ton of toys and video games because they made colorful weird creatures and vehicles that were fun to play with
if star wars was a tabletop RPG (and it has been, like three times), the prequel trilogy was a giant new sourcebook brimming with possibilities, look you can now play as a gungan, you can play as a sebulba, you can fly these stylish new ships and go to these new planets
sequel trilogy added nearly nothing, it's all member berries
This is the main issue.
The prequels are bad movies, bad scripts directed even worse, and many of the effects aged like shit, but they brought a lot of new stuff to the table (on top of trying to be innovative on a technical level), lore, visual ideas, choreography ideas...
This new trilogy was pathetic, trying to justify its complete lack of vision with nostalgia bait and preposterous meta deconstructions.
And then of course closing it all with pure lunacy, in terms of script.
To me that should've ruined the Star Wars franchise more than even Season 8 did with GoT, but it seems people still hold out hope.
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Yes i basically repeated what you just said.
