IronPatriotFTW
Super Freak
Sorry I seldom get on a computer these days to type, so a couple spots in my post were ****** fast mobile writing. If you all were not such a nit picky bunch I’m sure you could decipher it plus sometimes I use voice to text. But I do apologize for the errors lol.
I’m not so much defending the new movies, though I have enjoyed them overall. I’m just using established content and context (like Luke had little to no paitience and reacts impulsively and emotionally), to further connect the Luke that was in TLJ that we seen, vs the one I might have expected. Especially after reading EU. But as for just what was show in the OT, it fits. You don’t have to see or accept it... as a great Jedi once said “you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
It’s also like how one of my favorite characters like Darth Vader from the OT, was turned into IMO a lesser grade performance in the PT with a Anakin I had some trouble getting behind initially. But when the Clone Wars shows came out, they offered much redemption, plus character building and expansion that “redeemed” to me much of what was done with the prequels. Minus Jar-Jar.
And yeah maybe the new movies take your childhood heroes and kinda makes what they did seem worthless, but the same can be said of most real life childhood heroes and war stories. I actually really like how Rouge One showed that the Rebels were willing and able to do such horrific things like the Empire, by showing that they were assassins and murderers as well. And they used people as means to a end. War is ugly, and usually rewritten by its victors. And in order to achieve victory as romanticized in the OT there was a lot of behind the scenes hand dirtying.
I also liked how the Clone Wars showed that the Jedi were not these all knowing and great people to a lot of the galaxy (a knowledge, or in some cases a lack there of, that Palpatine used and greatly exploited) they were not even known to a lot of planets and people. To a good amount of people who they were not just myths to (also established in the OT, when not so much time had past between the PT and the OT to forget a group so allegedly powerful and mystic) hated them and thought they were selfish and pretentious, and didn’t offer aid unless it was in their or the republics own interests.
Again, it all seems to come down to the point of view thing lol
I’m not so much defending the new movies, though I have enjoyed them overall. I’m just using established content and context (like Luke had little to no paitience and reacts impulsively and emotionally), to further connect the Luke that was in TLJ that we seen, vs the one I might have expected. Especially after reading EU. But as for just what was show in the OT, it fits. You don’t have to see or accept it... as a great Jedi once said “you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
It’s also like how one of my favorite characters like Darth Vader from the OT, was turned into IMO a lesser grade performance in the PT with a Anakin I had some trouble getting behind initially. But when the Clone Wars shows came out, they offered much redemption, plus character building and expansion that “redeemed” to me much of what was done with the prequels. Minus Jar-Jar.
And yeah maybe the new movies take your childhood heroes and kinda makes what they did seem worthless, but the same can be said of most real life childhood heroes and war stories. I actually really like how Rouge One showed that the Rebels were willing and able to do such horrific things like the Empire, by showing that they were assassins and murderers as well. And they used people as means to a end. War is ugly, and usually rewritten by its victors. And in order to achieve victory as romanticized in the OT there was a lot of behind the scenes hand dirtying.
I also liked how the Clone Wars showed that the Jedi were not these all knowing and great people to a lot of the galaxy (a knowledge, or in some cases a lack there of, that Palpatine used and greatly exploited) they were not even known to a lot of planets and people. To a good amount of people who they were not just myths to (also established in the OT, when not so much time had past between the PT and the OT to forget a group so allegedly powerful and mystic) hated them and thought they were selfish and pretentious, and didn’t offer aid unless it was in their or the republics own interests.
Again, it all seems to come down to the point of view thing lol