Star Wars was a big hit when it first came out in 1977. It was the introduction to special effects in movies and started a kind of movie revolution. People of the day may look back and think it's crazy that they found it so fascinating, but it was the best of the best in special effects. It starts with the scrolling text introduction, then has the massive Star Destroyer chasing the one from Alderaan, and introduces the two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO. After the cool creations and introductions of science fiction special effects in movies, the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back came out and informed us more about the force and all the other aspects of Star Wars. In The Return of the Jedi, they stated truth depended on “your point of view” (which is non-controversial it's so dumb), Vader truly is Luke's father, Leia happens to be his sister and the force runs strong in the three of them. About 16 years after The Return of the Jedi came out, they start at the beginning and Episode I came out. It introduced the Prequel Trilogy. The prequel caused some of the greatest controversy of Star Wars: which is better? The original or prequel trilogy?

The original trilogy was old. It had less drama, less special effects, and different ways of acting (of course). The original definitely had more logic. The whole “truth is a point of view” is completely wrong. Truth is truth. You can't change it. His father didn't die, he was still alive. Darth Vader was still the same person as Anakin. Obi-Wan should have told the direct truth. If he didn't think Luke should have known yet, he should have said he'll tell him when the time comes or something like that. Instead he told a direct lie and just because something may seem like the way he told it, doesn't mean he could change it into that. If we could say that, we could get away with anything. You wouldn't receive a pardon if you murdered someone and told the police “I put him to sleep.”

Another problem with the original trilogy, actually the whole thing, is good and evil. Just like with point of view; there is one good and one evil. It doesn't depend on your point of view. If you're a mass murderer, it wouldn't be good in your point of view. You would know that you were doing something bad. If you didn't think you were doing something bad, you obviously have a dissorder. If a police arrested you for murder and he said you committed murder, they wouldn't take it very well if you replied “That's just your point of view. I just did a huge favor for everyone who knew him/her.” If goodness was a point of view, we wouldn't have American troops dying for our country today. It wouldn't matter. Government wouldn't matter. We would be a total anarchy and kill each other at will.

Now the prequel trilogy had many problems. They have those problems with point of view, but it also has logical problems. Now obviously, the whole story is fictional and they need twists from the real world to make it work. A logical problem that is in all the movies is that light-speed would not get you halfway across the galaxy in a couple hours. Our nearest star (besides the sun) is Alpha Centari. It is 4 light years away. That is really close compared to most stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Many stars are hundreds, some thousands of light years away. There are stars that probably exploded that we wouldn't know until several years after it happened. Star Wars though, needed the twist to make it more interesting and have more planets, etc.

The first problems were in episode I, The Phantom Menace (always start at the beginning). Jar Jar Binks is super annoying, but the Jedi decided to take him with them anyway even though they didn't help them get through the planets core, they used the force to do it themselves. The movie would be much more enjoyable if he spoke like a normal English speaker. George Lucas was probably trying to make it funny, but it didn't work out that great. It's also stupid that the Gungan leader made Jar Jar a Bombard General when he doesn't have a military mind at all (or experience). He didn't know how to lead or fight, he didn't think at all really, it was just crazy. Another thing that was crazy was that Darth Maul was the coolest character in the whole saga and he dies at the end of the first episode of Star Wars and they had to drag in this Count Duku guy who was probably the worse character in the movies besides Binks. Episode I though is by far the best in the prequel trilogy.

George Lucas completely destroyed Episode II. It could have made up for some of the mistakes in the first one, but he totally blew it. He brought in Count Duku to replace the coolest being in all of Star Wars, he made Anakin a baby rather than a great Jedi with a great lust for power (a Vader trait). He did wish for power but it was for unmanly reasons like to save his mother and Padme. His mother is more legitimate, but Padme didn't have much of a chance of dying (and didn't of childbirth, which is what he was afraid of), but he was so worried about it because he had dreams. If he was that worried, he probably should have told Obi-Wan rather than Palpatine. Palpatine was just an old buzzard that Anakin looked up to, even though Obi-Wan was closer to him. Obi-Wan knew he loved Padme and would have been more trustworthy than the lead politician (who's been repeatedly pointed out to have been in office long after his term expired and always increased the powers of the chancellor). I also can't stand the whole thing with C-3PO getting his head switched with a battle droid's. It's ridiculous. There was no logic in that at all. It wasn't funny either. The battle of the clones was pretty cool, but it's sickening that all the clones and storm troopers are clones of Jango Fett. Jango Fett was to add more Boba Fett-like stuff because they didn't have Boba Fett appear a whole lot in the original. They threw this guy in to make up for that since Boba Fett was so cool, but it made it worse. He based most his work on the old things everyone liked and tried to fit them in with the new in the prequel (e.g. Chewbacca, Boba Fett, Antilles Ship, etc.).

Episode III seemed like an attempt to redeem the trilogy from the second episode. I didn't like the beginning of the third one because of the whole General Grievous' ship ordeal. If the ship tipped over, they wouldn't notice because they're in space. If they had gravity control in the objects and people in the ship, it would always bring the people to the ground of the ship no matter how the ship tilted or tipped. General Grievous shattered a window in the ship to escape the Jedi in space. General Grievous may have possibly survived since he was part droid and all, but the Jedi would have died instantly. They wouldn't have been strong enough to hang on from being sucked into the vacuum of space, nor would they have been able to hold their breath like that. Once the vacuum takes hold of you at all, your breath is sucked out and you die almost instantly. Another thing that bugged me was the wookies were in the movie. Everyone just loves Chewbacca so they had to include the wookies! They had no purpose whatsoever. George Lucas shouldn't have included General Grievous either because he was too cool to just throw in at the end of his long-waited saga. The things that bugged me the most was the conversion of Anakin to Vader and the unanswered question: “What happened to Corrasaunt?” When Anakin was turned to the dark side, he just cut Mace Windu's hand off and Palpatine kills him. Palpatine gets up and tell Anakin he's his new master and he has to kill the Jedi and his new name is Darth Vader. Anakin was pretty much just like “ok!” He was told to wipe out the Jedi because they're dangerous and blah blah blah. “I understand Master,” but he didn't understand when he was put on the council without being a master. It just makes so much more sense to kill them all! I was also bothered with the fact that nothing happened to Corrasaunt, even though at the end of the movie, it's still perfectly in tact and it's not even mentioned at all in the original trilogy. In the prequel it was the most important location of the Jedi and the Sith and the Republic. It's wiped from the minds from everybody or something. Did it still exist? The Death Star couldn't have destroyed it because it wasn't operational until episode IV. The last thing that probably bugged me (even though the previous two points bug me worse) was that the ships just became that old ship at the beginning of episode IV even though it was outdated. It was Captain Antilles ship. What kept him to stay Captain of the same ship for 19 years? Was he really that bad of a leader? Why was he even a captain? Shouldn't he have been like a general or something? Han Solo became a general on the spot without question and he was just a mercenary and smuggler. It just bugs me a little.

At work I was talking to one of the managers (this is McDonald's by the way) and she seems to agree with me about Star Wars, but we haven't discussed it as much as I'd like. She said that the more money and special effects you give George Lucas, the worse and less clever his movies get. She mentioned that his first film ever was brilliant. Star Wars was definitely brilliant in the first years of its existence. The new stuff includes the most technology and he had the most money and he just blew it because it didn't matter much to him anymore. He just threw it away. If he didn't, it could have been a real great series. Despite of all its problems, I still like the series, but the more I watch it, the more it bugs me. It definitely could have been better though if Lucas tried.