Now to go into a new series of films you do think back to the past ones , its easy to do , but your going to hurt yourself and the series if you do that. Not physically , emotionally. With any new series you have to go in with no expectations and don't go in remembering how great the past films were. Of course 4 ,5 and 6 are classics , but so can 1 ,2 and 3. But what people did was compare them to 4,5, and 6 and never let the other one's shine in their own light. Now i'm not saying all 6 were perfect. Yes jar jar was a nuisance but i respect Lucas for trying to put some silly into a political sci-fi space opera. In fact ep. 1 is the weakest of the star wars movies due to jar jar and way too much political plot. We have Qui Gon and his battle with Darth Maul , we have the funny younger looking Yoda puppet , we have the Tatooine version of NASCAR , the last battle scene. Darth Maul cut in half was a plus , and that cloning ,not electronics , is the way to start an army. Ep. 2 brought us the trouble youth of Anakin and George Lucas lack of ability to direct his actors who are playing iconic roles. To be fair to Hayden , yes we are on first name bases , it would be hard to deliver those lines and be brooding at the same time. I had no problems with him in that role and what Anakin does in all of them is what Darth would do down the road of life. Which is why there are myths about star wars. Ep. 5 is the "dark one" of the series. not true. Yes its darker than Jedi , but not as dark as a new hope. C3PO is burning dead Jawas , Luke comes home to see aunt and uncle burned up like ribs at a chilli's. That's dark. Empire , not so much. Putting Han in carbon freezing is not dark. Luke being told who his real father is after getting his hand chopped off dark , kinda but that's called Tuesday in the south.So no. In episode 3 , Anakin kills 6-12 kids under 12 , he chokes his pregnant wife . That's dark. Now what can be debated is whats the best one. For me its still a new hope . It's 125 minutes of just a great time. empire has the Han and Leia story and is just a better episode 2.
And now the talk is that the next three are going to suck and that the first three sucked because Lucas was behind it which I just explained because people have this myth about star wars. stop with the myth and go for the ride because if you only see the negative aspect of star wars you'll miss the beauty of it.
