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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9223931" data-attributes="member: 7808"><p>Nothing against you personally, but I find this mentality extremely offputting. It's the lowest side of Hollywood that says the next movie always has to be BIGGER and FLASHIER, and MORE MORE MORE. It's simply not true. Some of the best sequels ever made are when someone isn't afraid to take it down a notch.</p><p></p><p>Take the Star Wars EU. The Thrawn Trilogy was, in every way, shape, and form, a smaller emergency than the original trilogy. Thrawn was no Emperor; he had no force powers, and he had no Death Star. OTOH, the Jedi Academy Trilogy had a new Sith threat, a new Death Star, and the Sun Crusher. And Thrawn was so much better than Jedi Academy. Better plot, better writing, better characterizations. In every way a better sequel, even though it was "less". All of the best EU stuff was smaller, like Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. The stuff that tried to be bigger, like Darksaber, was generally crap.</p><p></p><p>And there are lots of other examples. Wrath of Khan. Silence of the Lambs. Buffy Season 6. The bigger bad is not always a better story. Not everything has to be an epic.</p><p></p><p>There are a ton of ways that a sequel to Lord of the Rings could work. It could be about the generation after Aragorn stuggling to keep the peace - and succeeding. It could be about a small band of characters uncovering a lost Elven relic. There are endless possibilities. Now, if Tolkien just didn't feel like writing those stories, that's fine. It's his perogative to write the stories he wants to. But there's no reason the sequel would have to escalate, and there's no reason a competent writer like Tolkien couldn't write a story that maintained the ending of LotR if he wanted to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 9223931, member: 7808"] Nothing against you personally, but I find this mentality extremely offputting. It's the lowest side of Hollywood that says the next movie always has to be BIGGER and FLASHIER, and MORE MORE MORE. It's simply not true. Some of the best sequels ever made are when someone isn't afraid to take it down a notch. Take the Star Wars EU. The Thrawn Trilogy was, in every way, shape, and form, a smaller emergency than the original trilogy. Thrawn was no Emperor; he had no force powers, and he had no Death Star. OTOH, the Jedi Academy Trilogy had a new Sith threat, a new Death Star, and the Sun Crusher. And Thrawn was so much better than Jedi Academy. Better plot, better writing, better characterizations. In every way a better sequel, even though it was "less". All of the best EU stuff was smaller, like Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. The stuff that tried to be bigger, like Darksaber, was generally crap. And there are lots of other examples. Wrath of Khan. Silence of the Lambs. Buffy Season 6. The bigger bad is not always a better story. Not everything has to be an epic. There are a ton of ways that a sequel to Lord of the Rings could work. It could be about the generation after Aragorn stuggling to keep the peace - and succeeding. It could be about a small band of characters uncovering a lost Elven relic. There are endless possibilities. Now, if Tolkien just didn't feel like writing those stories, that's fine. It's his perogative to write the stories he wants to. But there's no reason the sequel would have to escalate, and there's no reason a competent writer like Tolkien couldn't write a story that maintained the ending of LotR if he wanted to. [/QUOTE]
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