I can totally understand what you were saying about the Prequels and how they shattered a bunch of ideas. Granted they were only ideas that existed in our collective heads but damn it, they made sense and was an easy explanation. For me personally, I really didn't like how Lucas crammed the backstory of Bobo Fett into him being just a clone of a dude and that all of the other OG Stromtropper Clones were base on as well. But for the most part, the most famous one was the whole Midichlorian and that stupid blood test that Qui-Gon did on little Anakin.clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:05 pmOT Obi-Wan clothes-wise is clearly a combination of a Catholic monk and some kind of Middle Eastern desert clothing.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:58 pmThe "jedi" consisted of Alec Guiness of the UK wearing a robe living in a cave. Whether he was British or Irish is beyond me, but a monk is a suitable description for what Alec Guinness as the sum total of the jedi was doing in 1978, and he is more or less English. I wasn't speaking of English monks in proper.cilantro wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:24 pmThe Jedi were more base on Buddhist monks than anything else. The second closet thing that I can think of would be Catholic monks but English monks weren't even close. Also, I could sewer that Alec Guinness was either Irish or Scottish?BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:18 pmI'm talking descriptively of robed mild-mannered persona that Alec Guinness characterized in A New Hope.cilantro wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:06 pmLiam Nelson (the famous Irish actor) is an English monk?BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:57 am As an English monk he channeled the original trilogy sage attitude very well. I don't think that amounts to much against episode 2 though.
And BTW I am 100% behind RLM here because I too always thought that Obi Wan wore these clothes because he is living in a sweltering hot cave, so it makes sense that he would wear breezy, flowing, white/brown clothes. The moment we learned that he is wearing the official Jedi uniform, and that Obi Wan is hiding on Anakin's home planet whilst wearing said uniform to HIDE from Anakin, this whole thing becomes ridiculous. Its this continuous lack of worldbuilding why people hate the Prequels and for me is far and away above ''I hate sand''.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0M3DXqur-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoVpSPXGCvc
That being said the Prequels did have some good ideas but they needed someone better to write/direct it (also I would probably go with a different actor for older Anakin). Even the TFA had some decent plot seeds but nothing was followed through with it.
