Word: prequel
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...human nature, including loyalty, honor, adherence to right and perseverance against wrong. After The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, the Star Wars phenomenon continued to grow, and it is about to receive a fresh jolt of life with the release of the first chapter of the Prequel Trilogy, The Phantom Menace...
...Lucas needed to continue the feeling of Star Wars. He needed to complicate the dimensions of the story, as he did with each of the original movies. This new movie may be a prequel, but that is no reason for Lucas' storytelling art to backpedal--in fact, his material was richer than ever before...
...Ultimately, Episode 1 fails because of a dramatic fallacy inherent in the idea of a prequel. Where the original Star Wars told a moving, visceral story, Episode I indulges curiosity...
...Fans are essentially interested in Lucas' imaginary universe, but because the magic of that universe depends on the richness of Lucas' imagination, Lucas has to do more than just make up more "stuff." Unfortunately, the point of a prequel is to explain a story already told; it relies on the inertia of another story. It is simply more "stuff." It does not truly enlarge the Star Wars universe...
...retreat to Dagobah, will Ben Kenobi pick up Darth Vader's old lightsaber, so he can someday give it to Luke? Such cloyingly nostalgiac satisfactions pale compared to Luke's arcanely scored hatred for Vader and to Han's martyr-ship in the carbonite chamber! The satisfactions of a prequel turn the the Star Wars universe into an introvert, a narcissus...