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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7594428" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>I think perhaps you're expecting a bit too much from Star Wars. Notice how all the characters you're okay with were ones introduced to you when you were a child, and all the ones you've been introduced to as an adult are "crap characters" about whom you're "indifferent". </p><p></p><p>Is there really all that much different about the old characters and the new and how they're portrayed in the films? Were Luke and Han and Leia really given a whole lot of depth in the first three films? Not really.....they were archetypical characters with little more to them. The farm boy with a meaningful destiny, the plucky princess, and the scoundrel. </p><p></p><p>This touches on the originality point that came up. Star Wars is not trying to be original. It is intentionally leaning on tropes and classic mono-mythic elements. Wizards and heroes and evil lords and so on. Now, for many of us, we're introduced to Star Wars early enough that all these ideas seem original, and it's only later on we found out how much Lucas is drawing from older material. So once we learn that, I think if our expectations for the films doesn't change at all, then we're likely not going to enjoy them as much. </p><p></p><p>Maybe you're just done with Star Wars?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7594428, member: 6785785"] I think perhaps you're expecting a bit too much from Star Wars. Notice how all the characters you're okay with were ones introduced to you when you were a child, and all the ones you've been introduced to as an adult are "crap characters" about whom you're "indifferent". Is there really all that much different about the old characters and the new and how they're portrayed in the films? Were Luke and Han and Leia really given a whole lot of depth in the first three films? Not really.....they were archetypical characters with little more to them. The farm boy with a meaningful destiny, the plucky princess, and the scoundrel. This touches on the originality point that came up. Star Wars is not trying to be original. It is intentionally leaning on tropes and classic mono-mythic elements. Wizards and heroes and evil lords and so on. Now, for many of us, we're introduced to Star Wars early enough that all these ideas seem original, and it's only later on we found out how much Lucas is drawing from older material. So once we learn that, I think if our expectations for the films doesn't change at all, then we're likely not going to enjoy them as much. Maybe you're just done with Star Wars? [/QUOTE]
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