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<blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 5788896" data-attributes="member: 12760"><p>I think what Lucas fails to realize is that it's NOT that fans will criticize anyone and anything that changes the Star Wars story. There have been LOTS of Star Wars stories that have been very well received by the fans ("Legacy," "Knights of the Old Republic," "Jedi Academy series"). Fans are willing to go with you if you're respectful of the source material and use it in interesting and faithful ways. Lucas decided instead to totally screw with the source material (apparently on the grounds that it was his and he'd do whatever the heck he wanted with it), and as a result the fans weren't willing to trust him with it.</p><p></p><p>I don't need to go into every single solitary detail, particularly here. Midichlorians are the least of it! There's retconning Anikan's history so it makes no sense in light of the original movies, there's the utterly wooden romance with Padme (which itself required retconning the original movies!).</p><p></p><p>I could go on and on, but I know I don't need to. What others have done with the materials and done well has been very appropriately praised (even if it's not necessarily universally loved), but Lucas was careless with his story, and apparently thinks that the fans owe him devotion for phoning in what was ultimately an unsatisfactory set of movies.</p><p></p><p>None of which is to say that he deserves the kind of vitriol that he's gotten from some fans, but you'll always get that in the age of the internet from some quarters. You've got to roll with it. And it's also not to say that there wasn't a lot of awesomeness in the movies as well. Pretty much every lightsaber battle was worth watching over and over again. But in themselves, they could not hold up the movies in the absence of a good story and respect for what had come before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remus Lupin, post: 5788896, member: 12760"] I think what Lucas fails to realize is that it's NOT that fans will criticize anyone and anything that changes the Star Wars story. There have been LOTS of Star Wars stories that have been very well received by the fans ("Legacy," "Knights of the Old Republic," "Jedi Academy series"). Fans are willing to go with you if you're respectful of the source material and use it in interesting and faithful ways. Lucas decided instead to totally screw with the source material (apparently on the grounds that it was his and he'd do whatever the heck he wanted with it), and as a result the fans weren't willing to trust him with it. I don't need to go into every single solitary detail, particularly here. Midichlorians are the least of it! There's retconning Anikan's history so it makes no sense in light of the original movies, there's the utterly wooden romance with Padme (which itself required retconning the original movies!). I could go on and on, but I know I don't need to. What others have done with the materials and done well has been very appropriately praised (even if it's not necessarily universally loved), but Lucas was careless with his story, and apparently thinks that the fans owe him devotion for phoning in what was ultimately an unsatisfactory set of movies. None of which is to say that he deserves the kind of vitriol that he's gotten from some fans, but you'll always get that in the age of the internet from some quarters. You've got to roll with it. And it's also not to say that there wasn't a lot of awesomeness in the movies as well. Pretty much every lightsaber battle was worth watching over and over again. But in themselves, they could not hold up the movies in the absence of a good story and respect for what had come before. [/QUOTE]
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