Be willing to let go of most of your feelings of nostalgia when watching this new sequel trilogy

I agree with everything you said! Daytime TV is the worst pop music nowadays is horrendous. My Momma always says "Nothing is like my mother's good Italian cooking" Yet I think her cooking is fantastic and when I make pasta I try my hardest to make sure everything is right and how she taught me but I don't think it's as great as her's but I think it's pretty damn good. You can only try you're hardest and do your best and hope for the best in return.

 

No doubt the new Trilogy will give us new heroes and new story, but its still SW and its impossible to catch lightning in a bottle again. I say that not as a shot at the PT and ST, but more of that is just the way movies and TV work when you continue on with a great franchise.

What appealed to so many of us from 1977-83 with the SW movies is that there were so many things we had never seen and it just blew us away. We had never seen lightsabers, we had never seen special effects like that, we had never seen anything like 'The Force', and we have never seen such great characters in this genre before either. Even though Lucas took many ideas from previous sources, he wound them up in a ball and layed them out in a world that nobody had ever seen.

What I'm getting at is even though we will have new heroes and a new story, the lightsabers will be the same, the force will be the same, etc. It's not to say the movies will be bad as they maybe great, but it is very hard to recreate the magic of anything when you make sequels and prequels. The same goes for a great TV show, as I am ready for the last episode of Mad Men on Sunday night, and even though its still a great show, the newness of the early seasons is gone and there isn't much they can do that will wow me anymore.

I have yet to meet a SW fan who wants to hate a new SW movie come out, and thats the hook that we get caught up in the hype because we love the universe so much.

 

For me it is about the rich and lived in world. As much as I love star wars, only EBS is in my top 20 movies list. I enjoy the casual references to kessel runs, the maneuver at the battle of tanaab, the bounty hunter on ord mantel, and all the neat background creature designs.

With the old EU you could learn more about any neato background character or event. Star wars is a fleshed out galaxy and not just another series of movies.

 

Someone has been watching too much Plinkett.

 

There's no such thing as too much Plinkett

 

@Robotpoop Obviously you guys read my post here:http://thecantina.starwars7news.com/index.php?threads/did-jj-pay-homage-to-mr-plinkett.2781/

 

To some extent I agree that was a major problem, but there were systemic problems as well. The success of IV was based on several things, but the mythical quality of the story was probably the largest. That was missing in the prequals. Instead there was a healthy dose of cutsie silliness (for lack of a better way of phrasing it). One thing we all know is Lucas' sense of humor is, well, not all that great. We were watching the prequals this weekend and even my wife noted there was too much of that. R2D2 flying in Episode II and the silliness with 3P0 is just over the top. Add those two things together and its a formula for disaster. Then pour on a ridiculous amount of expectation... Yeah. Epic failure.

 

It's literally impossible for this movie to exist in a vaccum. Most of the people who MADE TFA grew up with the original trilogy and we simply cannot remove memories that are so deeply ingrained in us. Until there are enough saga/anthology films to put some distance between the past and present, any Star Wars property will inevitably channel the originals.