Is Freddie Prinze Jr.'s take on the Star Wars series correct?

He’s an idiot

The Ewoks were cannibals and modeled after the Viet Cong

Edit: they like human flesh so not cannibals...

Also would like to add his Freddie linked himself to George Lucas through Filoni

I think a lot of what he said is correct and a chunk is wrong.

I think A New Hope was made for kids. kept it simple, showed some cool stuff. I think the rest of the OG Trilogy told the rest of that story to the same kids that were growing up. It was mature enough for adults at the time and simple enough for kids to follow.

The prequels told a continuation of the same story to a new set of kids while wrangling in the old adults. They were a cohesive story with a known ending. They weren't ever going to be super popular because they were trying to tell a lot of story in 3 movies with an ending that was always going to be the same. This is why the Clone Wars and the expanded prequel universe is so good. There is a lot of material you can make for that era that is great.

The sequels were made for a different audience. Disney thought that the fanbase would be built in and they could cater to the edges of fandom and that didn't work because the original fans didn't want that. They didn't just gobble up a turd and smile, they fought back on bad storytelling and bad characters that were underdeveloped.

Rey isn't a bad character, she is just too powerful too quickly. Finn could have been a wonderful character and they abandoned him (and this is coming from someone who thinks that Boyega is a pretty shitty actor). Poe got neutered. They introduced new and boring shitting female characters no one gave a shite about. They killed off the legacy character that connected everything while the actress who played the other legacy character actually died and they used CGI to keep her alive in the movies.

The sequels were made to try to bring females into Star Wars and that just doesn't work. Typically, women aren't into sci-fi movies and universes as much as men. You have to cater to your audience.

The 2 biggest issues with the sequels are these:

1. Creating a new "empire" and making the good guys the underdogs again. Simply flipping this paradigm would have created so much more narrative space from which to work.

2. Rian Johnson effectively ending the trilogy in movie 2. He left nowhere to go. His haste to subvert expectations and end the trilogy in movie 2 explains a lot of the deep-seeded fan rage.

Both created extreme limitations on the narrative, characters, and trilogy that made it effectively impossible to produce new, good, Star Wars content. I think the new "empire" is the biggest strain, and this rehashing of the OG trilogy is what led to RJ doing so much stupidity to subvert expectations and create something new. Had he been given a better canvas, I think the work would have been better.

There are lots of other issues on lesser levels that caused them to fail, like introducing too many characters in TFA, Rey being a Mary Sue, not coming into the project with a cohesive trilogy skeleton, etc.

“They’re kids movies” has to be the laziest defense ever. Some of the greatest stories of all time were written for kids, and they have cohesive plots and appeal to all ages

Reminds me of Elf when Walter Hobbs thought no one would notice the missing pages in the children’s book

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He's obviously right. The people that come on here and cry about new Star wars were cool with ewoks cause they saw that when they were kids. I love the original trilogy, I think Andor is the best thing that they have ever done (outside of the books) because I'm an adult and that's an adult show. I didn't care about the prequels or the last 3 movies but I have young kids and they enjoyed them so I enjoyed them with them (Rise of Skywalker is still complete shite). My 7 year old is already excited for Mando and Grogu. I know it's not going to be good but we will go to the theater and eat popcorn and he will think it's awesome.

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Perfectly stated and exactly how I feel.

The 40-50 year old diehards will disagree hard though. My kids and I have loved the mando, BoBF shows and my oldest and I really enjoyed Andor. Haven’t watched aysoka and all the others as that’s not really the part of the universe we’re into. The OT isn’t as different from a lot of the newer stuff as the diehards would have you think.

Pretty brilliant really.

No it is not correct, and his repeated use of the F-word doesn't make him cool or right.

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cool with ewoks cause they saw that when they were kids.

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No we weren't. They were teddy bears in a universe that was dirty & grime-covered. There was nothing cute in the SW universe up until that point, and we liked it that way. They should've been something scaly and disgusting, like lizards.