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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5088393" data-attributes="member: 32740">Yeah, that would sorta be the whole idea.  The original film was brilliant and will stand on its own merits forever aside from Lucas' later revisionism [Han shot first dangit!].  Empire was wonderfully darker in tone but very much just an episode in an ongoing serial at that point.  Jedi, though weighed down by all the baggage inherent in Ewoks, still had the core of an adequate sequel, and even a moment or two of greatness.  The prequels, however, simply lacked any and all of the vibrancy of the original trilogy.  Effects naturally improved but acting, character development and even basic plotting all suffered HORRIBLY so the series as a whole just marched steadily downhill.  Whatever exciting or interesting elements they had were lost in the expensive mediocrity of the rest of the film. I think maybe Lucas was just trying too hard to recapture that lightning in a bottle and had nobody to tell him to his face that his ongoing story just wasn't compelling anymore. Way back, not long after the first movie was released and talk started to turn to sequel plans I remember reading an interview where Lucas was quoted as saying something like, "I just put up the basic castle walls, now I'm going to let everyone else have fun putting up the gargoyles and stuff."  I would be interested to see that actually happen because I think others can actually do better with it than he did beyond the original. My vote would be for Joss Whedon.</blockquote>

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