Message:An eternal plot point, the need for love, unrequited.
Watch The Phantom Menace one more time (as an eleven year old), then tell me, truthfully, that's not the best Star Wars created. One minor flaw on NOT allowing the bad guy to monologue. What was his name, Darth Red-Face? There will never be a more exciting children's tale. The tech vs magic battle, supreme. The pod race, sheer delight. The abstract wisdom and neatly explaining everything mystical about the prior trilogy with the simple addition of normal household plague as the source of the force. Perfect child's explanation, again. Waht you can't behold is magic. Are the stereotypes any worse than Elmo, Big Bird or Cookie Monster? How can you shite on jar-Jar and accept the Count counts. Would any grammar school kid not fall in love with the heroic princess and be doubly surprised she is also the rich ruler at the reveal. This was John Carter of Mars with a man that has a very specific set of skills, the actor Liam, plus the kid from Trainspotting before he had the cash to go around the world on a Harley.
Good times, rewarded Lucas with hatred that killed his will to live, forever. Because of your hatred of a large nose flying slaver, we got Abrams running the show on the reboots with the aged original cast. Pain, Captain. All cause you refused to see the Star Wars for what it was, a child's serial fable. You haters had to make it something more than cheap Space Opera.
Damn you all, damn you to hell. (Heston, seeing Statue of Liberty)
Yours,
IronRed
24-May-2022