I recommend watching The People vs. George Lucas, which is a documentary about a portion of the OT fans’ negative opinions on the prequels. Some of those opinions are tied heavily to nostalgia. Tho the prequels were different at the time, yet still a continuation of the story from the creator himself.
Now, the negative opinions on the sequels are different, since the creator wasn’t really involved in the sequels. I’m still shocked that Disney didn’t use his sequel treatments, nor planned out the sequels in the first place. Though the emotions remain the same, just amplified with social media.
Personally, I liked most of the ST characters in the TFA, but did not like the direction they were taken in with the other two movies. Heck, even one of them was replaced by another ‘tokenized’ character in the second movie, who was later sidelined in the third movie. Yikes. More importantly, they could have been written in a way that didn’t dimish or undermine the achievements of the original legacy characters.
Anyway, yes, sw fan fiction never ceases to entertain me. The fans create the ‘what if’s’. And we’ll always have the original six films and the EU. (Although, since I’m new to the EU, I’m mainly sticking to Zahn’s books. There was also drama over some authors writing Mara Jade terribly ooc that Timothy Zahn became very protective of her and his original sw characters, that he was hesitant to bring them into the current disney canon)
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Now, the negative opinions on the sequels are different, since the creator wasn’t really involved in the sequels. I’m still shocked that Disney didn’t use his sequel treatments, nor planned out the sequels in the first place. Though the emotions remain the same, just amplified with social media.
Personally, I liked most of the ST characters in the TFA, but did not like the direction they were taken in with the other two movies. Heck, even one of them was replaced by another ‘tokenized’ character in the second movie, who was later sidelined in the third movie. Yikes. More importantly, they could have been written in a way that didn’t dimish or undermine the achievements of the original legacy characters.
Anyway, yes, sw fan fiction never ceases to entertain me. The fans create the ‘what if’s’. And we’ll always have the original six films and the EU. (Although, since I’m new to the EU, I’m mainly sticking to Zahn’s books. There was also drama over some authors writing Mara Jade terribly ooc that Timothy Zahn became very protective of her and his original sw characters, that he was hesitant to bring them into the current disney canon)