Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 7689866" data-attributes="member: 92305">One of the big differences in the original trilogy and the new film, compared to the prequel trilogy, is the focus of the films.  The originals and the new films are about key moments in time--key incidents that happen.  In A New Hope, it was a story about how the Death Star was destroyed.  The Empire Strikes Back was about how the Rebels lost their base on Hoth and about the meeting between Vader and Luke for the first time.  Return of the Jedi is about how the Rebels won with the death of Vader and the Emperor.So much of the Big Picture stuff happened off screen.  The dismantling of the Galactic Senate and the Rebels gaining the Death Star plans in A New Hope.  All the stuff that was going on with the Empire and the Rebels everywhere--as the film focused just on a couple of events--in The Empire Strikes Back.  How the Bothans gained the plans to the Second Death star, and how the Emperor really weaved a web to destroy the Rebels at Endor.All of this stuff happened off screen.Yet, in the prequels, we live through most of the major events.  We see how Palpatine becomes Chancellor of the Republic.  We see how the Republic gets an Army.  We see how the Jedi Knights are pressured into becoming soldiers--because the Republic previously had no officers to lead the clones.  We see, over all three movies, what it took for a good man to fall to the Dark Side.  We see how the Republic became an Empire.In the originals, all of this type of stuff--this type of plot--would be delivered off-screen with dialogue like, "Vader tracked down and murdered your father."The new movie is much more like the originals--lots of questions, things happening off camera, and holes in history to fill.</blockquote>

Verification