Star Wars trilogy: Round 3

[fire_of_avalon]

I'm with Ouch! here. I'll at least give this a shot rather than spamming the 'n' and 'o' keys for five minutes. I do love me some Star Wars and Disney has shown success with Pixar and Marvel.

I'm also with Ouch!

I was rather surprised when I heard the news and wasn't really sure what to make of it. How well it will pan out will be interesting, but I'm certainly willing to give any new films a watch before I decide what to make of them. If the new film(s) pick up the trilogy from after Return of the Jedi (when quite a lot of interesting stuff happens!), and perhaps deal with the Yuuzhan Vong, it'll be quite interesting to see how they do it. Han, Luke, Leia and the like all have big roles to play in that timeline - I wonder who they'll get to play them.

How is this a bad idea? If there's anything that recent years have proven is that the best stuff happens in the Star Wars universe happens when one of two criteria is met:

1. Someone is around to give creative oversight to Lucas's imagination (the original trilogy)
2. Lucas lets other people run wild with the world (books, The Old Republic story line, etc.)

Pixar has done very well since the full Disney acquisition, and they've done a damn good job with Marvel (case in point: your own damned avatar and signature). Is nobody else excited that this could mean a good Star Wars trilogy?

I'm with Ouch! here. I'll at least give this a shot rather than spamming the 'n' and 'o' keys for five minutes. I do love me some Star Wars and Disney has shown success with Pixar and Marvel.

I'm with you for a few reasons as well. First off, I hated the prequels so if Lucas is less involved then I say its a good thing. Second, maybe this means we'll get blu-ray releases of the original versions from before Lucas started to cock them up.

I agree with all of this except for the Lucas involvement. There's nothing wrong with the storylines of the prequels, except for the stuff that was added to appeal to children. They made some bad casting decisions - that's not all on him. There are some awful lines, but there are also some really cool things in the prequels.

People just knock the dude because they can't recapture they mysticalness of their childhood anymore and want to blame him. Do you think the original trilogies are the epitome of film-making? I think everyone looks at them through the eyes of nostalgia-fog and can't stand that they can't connect with the newer ones in the same way.

I guess that's why it's good that I was in my teens when I saw the original trilogy and I saw them close together with the prequels.