Star Wars is a multi-media franchise started by George Lucas with the release of the first film, then called ‘Star Wars’.
Currently, it is owned and painfully mismanaged by Disney.

I don’t recognize anything that was created by Disney to be canon. As far as I’m concerned, the old Expanded Universe (or ‘Legends’) is canon. For this reason…I’m just not really gonna talk about it at all.

This also applies to The Clone Wars – the 3D animated show – which I don’t recognize as canon either. Disney’s canon is built entirely around that show and, well, it ended up breaking everything when it came out.

My perspective is that Disney canon (and The Clone Wars) should be eliminated from canon, with the original EU being used as a foundation for new content instead.

If you’re interested in my reasonings why, I’ll link a few relevant videos here. But for a channel that has proper Star Wars lore, focused around the EU, go to Manda-LORE.

Relevant Videos

I’ll keep it mostly barebones for now.

The franchise overall is very good, I’d say. Though with notable hiccups.

I think that the original trilogy is…good, though not as good as it’s often made out to be.

Episode VI is obviously the weakest and the least sensical, though it’s debatable just how bad it is.

I really don’t have that much to say, honestly.

Having grown up watching these films, I have a slight bias towards them. However…I do think that much of the frequently-levied criticism towards these films is not valid.

A lot of strange decisions were made during the production of these films, but it’s also clear that a lot of thought went into it as well.

Among the things that I’d say were good:

• The fact the Jedi Order is not really that great and, in fact, kinda bad.
• The fact the Republic was corrupt, which allowed the Clone Wars to happen and the consequent rise of the Empire.
• The political intrigue, though…meh.

Among the things that I’d say were bad:

• The acting is really weird, though to what extent this is bad is debatable. There are times when you could argue it’s intentional and kinda good.
• The Clone Wars lasting just a few short years is unusual.
• Palpatine’s plan is convoluted and pretty weird all things considered.
• Darth JarJar being abandoned.
• The tech level between the Prequels and Originals possibly being in discord.

But that’s all I’ll say for now. I have a preference for the Clone Wars era, however.

I recently re-watched the film, so I’m thinking of revisiting this article. We’ll see!

The above statement still applies, but for now I’ll just write a few of my thoughts down.

While I was watching the film, I felt engaged almost constantly. I was enjoying myself and didn’t really have the urge to do other things to be honest. There were a few moments where I rolled my eyes (a lot of the JarJar comedy was just bad, though I did almost laugh at one moment; Anakin was a little off sometimes), but otherwise I didn’t think it was bad at all. I was even surprised to find that the acting was good.^B)

The visuals were pretty good too. Naboo is actually beautiful.

After a recent re-watch, this is where I started wondering why people think these films are bad. Seriously not terrible.

More to be written later.

Same re-watch situation, except one comment I have for now is that the fights (especially the Palpatine/Yoda and Obi-Wan/Anakin fights) were really engaging, to the point I was completely silent during those fights.

More to be written later.

• Honestly? No clue what I’d link here.