Prequels

[poliphilo]

How come, when everybody says they hate spoilers, the entertainment industry keeps serving up prequels- which are stories with spoilers built in?

Are you desperate to know what Han Solo got up to before he became Harrison Ford? Me neither.

Comments

[oakmouse]

Well, when it comes to the Star Wars franchise, people kind of lose their sense of perspective. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years Disney serves up a series of movie epics about events preceding the founding of the Empire. They'll take it as far as they can so long as they can make bank with it.

[poliphilo]

The loyalty of Star Wars obsessives is a thing to behold. They mostly hated the prequels (and for a good reason) and yet they kept on asking for more.

[oakmouse]

I know. I've never understood it --- but then I've actually never seen Star Wars.

[poliphilo]

I've seen the original trilogy and the Phantom Menace- and odd bits and pieces from other movies.

[oakmouse]

I saw The Empire Strikes Back, but without the necessary background I mostly couldn't follow it. So I spent the movie being excited that Yoda speaks with a Welsh grammatical structure because that was the only part that made any sense to me.