Yes, we know what you’re thinking and stop looking at us like that. You’re one of those Star Wars nerds that hate everything to do with the franchise after 1982, aren’t you? You don’t have any time for Ewoks or Gungans or modern, snazzy computer graphics. You want to watch monsters that move like they’re on rails and Anthony Daniels hamming it up without any interference from the modern world.
You know what? That’s fine.
Pretty much everything to do with Star Wars after ‘The Empire Strikes Back‘ (and maybe ‘Return of the Jedi’) was such a pile of complete dross that it’s enough to make Michael Winner consider re-releasing some of his films updated to HD. Those of you who groaned at the first appearance of the shambling Jar-Jar Binks would have found yourselves doubled over in agony by the time The Clone Wars hit TV screens.
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George Lucas must have more dead horses on his Skywalker ranch than the stables after the Grand National.
How else could he keep flogging them?
Not content with ruining his own credibility with the Star Wars prequel trilogy and Indiana Jones vs the Aliens, Lucas has announced that he has 2 series worth of scripts ready for his new live action Star Wars TV show. Read More >>>
Good tradition of love and hate.
Folded:
Creased:
- Daybreak is doing well then (pity, the presenters are such a likeable couple. No desire to stick them in one of those traps in the Saw movies at all)
- Ikea kitchen advert (annoying friends of Mark Ronson have a shindig. Terrific cover of Jona Lewie’s You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties though. Oh, and look out for him in the video)
- Absence of trick or treaters (must have been because The X-Factor was on. How very sad)
- The call-in cost for The Gadget Show competition (sure, you don’t HAVE to call in but who can be bothered to send a postcard? £1.50 Is a lot of money when you still consider baked beans a meal)
- Movie t-shirts you will actually look cool wearing (especially this one)
Star Wars fans have had to deal with their fair share of disappointments. Return of the Jedi ending in a teddy bear’s picnic is one. Another was watching The Phantom Menace.
But maybe as Star Wars fans we see the series through rose-tinted spectacles. Maybe – and it hurts us to say this – it was never that good in the first place. Maybe as impressionable young kids we were just taken for the ride of our life through a galaxy far, far away and totally missed the dodgy script, hammy acting and bloody Ewoks.
All right, maybe not. That’s just crazy talk. But it has made me start thinking about things that could have been better throughout the series – not just the three prequels. What if the Jawas rather than the Ewoks helped the Rebels defeat the Empire on Endor? Would that have been better? Maybe. Would it have been even better if Yoda had done some actual fighting in The Empire Strikes Back? No, probably not.
Oh, and would the world have been a better place if Jar Jar Binks had died horribly at the start of Phantom Menace? Definitely. So what about the characters? Were there any characters that just didn’t quite live up to expectations? Quite possibly. Here’s six…
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