A new generation of Star Wars fans...

Valigarmander · 07-02-2008, 05:28 AM

This is just something that's been on my mind, so I figured I'd share.

You and I all today have grown up with the original Star Wars trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi), followed by the FUNTASTIC prequel trilogy (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith). We've all grown up with Han Solo and Darth Vader, and Luke Skywalker with his struggles to discover the truth about his father and then the shocking revalation that Vader is him. We've grown up with the Empire and the Rebellion. We've grown up with Yoda as a strange-yet-powerful hermit from an old swamp planet. We've grown up with Princess Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker as lovers until Return of the Jedi, and then wonder in disgust about their brief kissing scenes in the last two movies... And then we saw the prequel trilogy, and saw where the Jedi came from, how the Empire was created, and when Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader, and the whole series seemed to come in full circle.

Well, what about the next generation of Star Wars viewers who are most likely to watch the series from I to VI, instead of IV to VI and then I to III? I mean... that would be an entirely new experience. Think about it:

- You would know by Episode IV that Darth Vader is the father of Luke Skywalker, so the whole thing at the end of Empire would have almost no effect on the viewer compared to the smack-in-the-face, whatsat response we got by watching the original trilogy first.

- Furthermore, we'd know Luke and Leia were brother and sister... Which would not only take away the impact of the revealing in RotJ, but would also make watching Luke and Leia blissfully mack off in the other two films a bit uneasy.

- We would know who Yoda was, and therefore there'd be no surprise when the little green freak reveals himself to be the Jedi Master.

- Heck, the ONLY real major surprise that would come from watching the movies in this order would be finding out Chancellor Palpatine was the evil Sith Lord in Episode III, although even if you didn't watch the original trilogy first you'd be a dumbass not to figure that out.

Those are my ideas. Share yours, people. I'd like to hear them... this whole idea intrigues me.

PandaFan :3 · 07-02-2008, 10:01 AM

When I have kids, I'm making 'em watch the old fashioned way.

Chunky Kong12345 · 07-04-2008, 10:03 AM

Yeah, just make them watch IV-VI first.

07-02-2008, 05:28 AM	#1
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07-02-2008, 10:01 AM	#2
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07-04-2008, 10:03 AM	#3
Chunky Kong12345 my avatar's not different at all is it Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: some kind of froody spaceship Gender: Posts: 19,787 Thanks: 105 Thanked 608 Times in 400 Posts Points: 17,226.18 Bank: 25,342,450.78 Total Points: 25,359,676.96 Donate	Yeah, just make them watch IV-VI first.