[tbw2]

The Hero With a Thousand Options: The Anti-Mythology of the Star Wars Sequels
https://libertyislandmag.com/2020/08/31/the-hero-with-a-thousand-options-the-anti-mythology-of-the-star-wars-sequels/

[Seruzawa]

While the prequels weren't great, they weren't completely terrible either. The recent trilogy was garbage. Well, I only saw the first two. But I'm pretty sure that Rise of Skywalker was a disaster. When I saw horses galloping on the hull of a metal starship during the previews I knew that this had really happened:

[JBW1949]

These were the Star Wars movies:

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

The others are BS...

[Crusher138]

The author of the essay is right on target.

The third trilogy is liberalism writ large - rejection of the past, deifying the individual, self actualization is nirvana.

[Junk Silver]

[dfwgator]

Spaceballs got it right, every Star Wars sequel might as well have been called “Star Wars - The Search For More Money”

[alternatives?]

A little repetitive but a good analysis. Everything in the sequels centered around the idea that a women could achieve anything if she believed in herself.

The problem is there is nothing there. Put a baby girl (or guy) on a planet by herself with unlimited food and nothing else. What would happen during the next 80 years?

All the other characters in the stories exist to cater to Rae’s needs as they evolve.

[Dahoser]

The prequels were bad because they were seemingly designed to appeal to kids and because George Lucas was let loose to continue the tinkering he did on the originals only on a massive scale. Plus, and this is a major one for me, he turned the most fearsome badass villain in the galaxy into a whiny teenager.

I didn't mind Episode VII even though it was pretty much Episode IV rehashed because I viewed it as a reassurance that things were back on track after the mess of the prequels. Didn't take long into Episode VIII to realize how wrong I was. I can only imagine how much worse Episode IX was, but I'll never know.