I don't know, I'll defend the prequels a little bit. They're still bad movies, but they're bad in a way that was... interesting? Besides pod racing, which rips, they had some actual political ideas and were at least set against a backdrop of a liberal democracy descending into fascism.
A manufactured war creates a crisis and goads a small group of bourgeois senatorial elites to concentrate power in the hands of a unitary executive who uses that power to abolish the liberal democracy. The sequels don't have anything resembling politics, just vibes.
George absolutely needed reined in but he did have some good ideas in the all the slop. But I'm willing to give him way more slack for modeling the rebels in the OT after the Viet Cong than maybe should.
I don't know, I'll defend the prequels a little bit. They're still bad movies, but they're bad in a way that was... interesting? Besides pod racing, which rips, they had some actual political ideas and were at least set against a backdrop of a liberal democracy descending into fascism.
A manufactured war creates a crisis and goads a small group of bourgeois senatorial elites to concentrate power in the hands of a unitary executive who uses that power to abolish the liberal democracy. The sequels don't have anything resembling politics, just vibes.
George absolutely needed reined in but he did have some good ideas in the all the slop. But I'm willing to give him way more slack for modeling the rebels in the OT after the Viet Cong than maybe should.