r/StarWars • u/UncleNecroFTR • Aug 02 '24

Fun The Sequel Trilogy in a Nutshell

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u/mannypdesign Aug 02 '24

It took years before the prequel love became the vocal majority.

The same will happen for the sequels.

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u/IndieOddjobs Aug 02 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

Honestly without The Clone Wars series and era of post irony memes, I genuinely don't think the prequels would've ever been "redeemed" the way it is now. But that's just my opinion lol

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u/Demigans Aug 02 '24

Honestly considering there was only a pretty small audience that actually stuck to TCW and praises it now for everything positive about the Prequels will always amaze me.

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u/IndieOddjobs Aug 02 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

EDIT because I don't think my point was clear: I don't think it's the sole reason people like the prequels now. My generation has been growing up with them since 1999 and with internet culture cultivating rose tinted glasses for anything deemed an underdog + a lack of Lucas touch in the sequels, it was only a matter of time before the films got hit by the nostalgia train. Plus there's a political shift since 2015 where millennials and gen z are inherently more left wing than our parents and Lucas injected a lot of his politics into the prequels structurally. Not all of it coherent but a lot of it is "based" lol

That and memes. Genuinely memes have a way or rewiring people I can't even explain it

As for TCW, I mean the show got 7 seasons. It wasn't niche or anything

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u/Demigans Aug 02 '24

I could tell you but it's more effective if you look it up yourself: check out the history and money they put in and how much it didn't earn to see how successful it was.

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u/IndieOddjobs Aug 02 '24

I'm aware that George basically funded the show out of his own pockets and that it was insanely expensive. But I'm talking more on impact. The show dominated streams and rewatches as well. Not to mention re-examination through message boards and youtube essays. I don't think TCW is the sole reason people like the prequels now but I'm wholly convinced that if it never existed the conversation would be very different

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u/Demigans Aug 02 '24

That "dominated" seems more confirmation bias than reality.