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@strypey First of all, the things I read in the late #1970s tended to the view that there had been on big story, with had grown so large as it was fleshed out that it was partitioned into three parts. Each of those three parts then grew during the fleshing out process and was in turn trifurcated. Finally, the 4th of 9 was turned into a major motion picture.
So given this, one might expect some unity of vision and unity of story line, but there are jarring discontinuities as one goes from movie to movie throughout the series. For this reason, Ep 5 really feels out of place.
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I should try to see the #Star_Wars movie "Solo" if I can find lang=EN + subtitles in ES instead of lang=ES.
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@whistlewright You know, that's funny. I keep listening to people tell me how wonderful the original trilogy was, but I saw #Star_Wars:Ep4 in theaters in the 1970s and didn't see another until the 1990s. I thought SW:Ep5 was terrible. I thought SW:Ep6 was okay, but still worse than Ep4. So I had reduced expectations of the prequels because I thought the 2nd and 3rd movies were not as good as people say.
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@whistlewright By those standards, the new movies have not been as disappointing as people claim (if only because they've mostly been rehashing the same stories from Eps 4-6 with different characters). SW:TFA was the worst of the new movies, at or below the level of the prequels. It had too many peripheral stories that merely distracted from the main story. Having a sudden hook at the end to connect it to the main series felt evil and manipulative.
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@lnxw48a1 @whistlewright The truth is, most of the movies I watch these days are just to give me something in common with the kids, a shared topic of interest and discussion. Otherwise, I wouldn't go to a theater at all.
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@strypey @whistlewright I enjoy #Star_Wars. That's why I'm willing to see Solo. But some of the movies were not as good (Empire Strikes Back among them). I find "first trilogy" worship puzzling when Ep 5 was so far inferior ... maybe even sub-prequel level.
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... ONE big story