#the prequels
*My mom telling me I can turn on the lights in the back seats of the car to look for something*
Me:
How to find a hiding Star Wars fan:
That realisation came to me a little earlier, as did the acknowledgement that their saga will, in several months, be at end. And I am at peace with that.
For as much as I have always loved the original trilogy, (mostly) very much enjoyed the sequels and regard the prequels with more love than I had for them when they were first released (thanks largely to The Clone Wars), I am so very ready for other stories to be told, like that of The Mandalorian, more of Cassian and that greater exploration of the my favourite fictional galaxy, all that is that beyond the spheres which the Skywalkers have occupied.
That’s not to say when the final credits roll on The Rise of Skywalker that I won’t be a teary, blotchy mess when the lights come up in the cinema (let’s face it, I’ll probably be in a bad state tomorrow when that final trailer lands). It has been too long an acquaintance with the Skywalkers not to be an emotional time. But I am prepared for the end now…
And now, inexplicably, something that has basically nothing to do with dinosaurs. Although he has kinda chicken legs, which I think are cool.
Grievous has always been my favorite Star Wars character, at the very least because he has a killer design. I’m also a big fan of the Clone Wars in general (mostly just for the planets and lore, Episodes I & II are stinky) since they’re the ones I grew up with. No disrespect on any of the other movies, I just dig this asthmatic, four-arm-havin, cyborg skeleton.
And I draw him next to never so I thought I’d give him a crack for Inktober.
“Watching them (The Prequels) again as a whole, I was really struck with the quality and depth of the storytelling and George’s vision for all of it. It’s so nuanced, complex, and layered,” Hayden Christensen says. “Really remarkable.”
WE STAN THE TRUE KING OF PREQUEL APPRECIATION
This got to be the adorablest interview that has ever adorabled! It’s absolutely crackers!
Hayden being an AU Anakin and the best starpilot in the Galaxy for 9 minutes straight, building a Lego starfighter, choosing a starfighter over a lightsaber, throwing himself to the floor with a suspiciously loud thud to make the little boy happy,…
However, if I were you, I wouldn’t be getting too chummy with this Sith because the last time he met children your age, he drove his lightsaber through them ;-)
It says a lot how consistent Hayden is in every single one of these interviews about not getting back to Star Wars and playing Anakin/Darth Vader after Revenge of the Sith. He never mentions those few sentences he had in the ST, like they are not part of his character or he completely forgot about them. Neither does Ewan. It’s like they both ignore those movies exist and consider that the events which took place in them never happened.
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The Guardian article perfectly illustrates where the problems lies with the hate for the Prequels, the bashing of Hayden’s performance and everything that is wrong with basically every single article documenting the return of the Prequel cast in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The toxic but loud minority of SW fans has been only a small part of it; the real culprits have always been the media that have been bashing the movies ever since they came out. No, even before they had come out - there is literally an article/review which criticized George Lucas and the Phantom Menace even before it completed post-production. For more than 20 years, they have been constantly, unrelentingly, demeaning, attacking and insulting the three movies with the same sort of backhanded comments and jibes: too much CGI and not enough practical effects (even though the Prequels had more practical effects than the OT and ST), too much green screen (all the sci-fi and fantasy movies have been made on green screen and blue screen ever since, including the ST and Marvel movies; The Volume is awesome but basically only the SW series use it now so it’s everything but widespread), George Lucas writes terrible dialogue (the PT has literally the same type of dialogue as the OT, which the writer of the article admits to by mentioning Harrison Ford’s comment), and so on. Imagine it, for a quarter of a century the same comments all over again, copied and pasted.
The media outlets and its writers want to shift the blame to the fans when it’s been them all along who have been harassing the actors with their awful articles. The only thing that has changed in the recent years is that they want to exonerate themselves by shifting the blame on the fans and Lucas’ “terrible writing”, claiming it hasn’t been the actors’ faults and it’s time to “forgive them”. This article is the perfect example. The writer puts himself into a position of a magnanimous and understanding listener, ready to bestow his forgiveness and take the blame from Hayden by putting it on George, saying in every second sentence he writes that the Prequels were terrible movies, while Hayden, on the other hand, gushes about the Prequels that they are masterpieces and George is a genius. The article has two levels: the journalist shitting on the Prequels and Lucas and Hayden defending and admiring them.
Hayden has always had only fond memories about the Prequels, not only now as the writer suggests. He has never said a single bad word about them or George Lucas. The only bad memories he’s had are of terrible articles about him.
This is the one thing that really sucks about coming back from hiatus and returning to the Star Wars fandom - nothing has changed, especially the things that sucked about it.
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Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Vanity Fair throughout 23 years (1999, 2002, 2005, 2022)
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It’s just so vindicating, for a generation of people who were told that the movies we loved while we were children were BAD TERRIBLE movies that NOBODY LIKED like this opinion was shoved down our throats but we were kids!!! The prequels for many of us were like the foundational narratives of our childhood. To be surrounded by adults shaming us for liking the movies made for us, mocking them, making us feel stupid and ashamed for enjoying the kids movies that defined our childhood, making it a sign of taste and culture to dismiss and put down the prequels for decades like fuck all those people who told us we can’t love the movies that were made for us!!!
