Well that is one man's opinion. While I won't call Jedi a comedy, he does have a good point about Ewoks.

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Well that is one man's opinion. While I won't call Jedi a comedy, he does have a good point about Ewoks.

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The Ewoks are, "regrettable". But at least the little murder bears killed Stormtroopers by archaic means with impunity and prior to that were going to cook Han, Luke, and Leia alive. Furry little savages.

A far cry from......................

Basically what this and many other people said.

Millennials don’t hate the prequels. Most of us were kids. The dudes you saw complaining about them were Gen X. There’s a lot of ironic and unironic affection for the prequels

— PB Davis (@PBDWrites) May 30, 2026

Hope I can go on living without Denis Vilineueve iking Star Wars.

For real. Guess he never watched Andor

The badness of the sequels and the goodness of the animation made the prequels look way better in hindsight.

Andor and Rogue one are better than pretty much everything except IV and V.

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Anyone go to Star Wars night in Houston or Arlington this past weekend?

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This is the way.

I'm right behind the droid.

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I'm right behind the droid.

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Was that the droid you were looking for?

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Kate Beckett said:

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I'm right behind the droid.

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Was that the droid you were looking for?

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It's a second hand droid she got from Peli

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Looks like it might have a bad motivator.

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Looks like it might have a bad motivator.

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Kate Beckett said:

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I'm right behind the droid.

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Was that the droid you were looking for?

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It's a second hand droid she got from Peli

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Looks like it might have a bad motivator.

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maybe he can help....



bro did build 3CPO

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I'm right behind the droid.

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I thought about mentioning TexAgs to you but y'all were very much in character.

Yesterday was so awesome seeing all the costumes and a fully functioning Chopper even!

This will be the first Star Wars film I will not see at the movie theater.

Not saying it won't be entertaining; just honestly have zero interest. This is from someone who has Timobi as my license plate

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The badness of the sequels and the goodness of the animation made the prequels look way better in hindsight.

Andor and Rogue one are better than pretty much everything except IV and V.

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Correct all around.

But it's also true that most millennials did not hate the prequels, most of that came from Gen X. (And maybe the elder millennials, which I'm guessing is what TC is.)

I was a junior in high school in 2005, and I vividly remember how excited everyone was for ROTS. And not just the nerds like me, but even the "cool kids" were into it.

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This is probably accurate, millenials would probably split at the middle point of ages.

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Elder millennial. Episode 1 came out when I was in high school. I read the Episode 1 novelization before the movie came out and realized we were in trouble.

Still saw it on opening day.

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Same. Though, being born in 1980, I often fall into the no-man's-land between Gen X and Millennial. Either way, I was a senior in high school when it came out, and I too read the novelization prior - or at least half of it, as to not spoil the whole thing - and started to get an uneasy feeling at that point. Then? I saw the movie opening day with 17 friends and a couple of dads (mine included) and not a single one of us liked the movie. Same for everyone we talked to at school the next day.

Assuming you fall into the 1980 - 1985 range you would be a "Geriatric Millennial" like me

Born in 82. Was pumped for Episode 1, big group of us went to see it opening day and everyone in the group thought it sucked.

Gen X here. My dad had to convince me to see Star Wars in June 1977. It became the greatest thing I had ever seen. The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi augmented that opinion - those three movies as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Alien were my favorites by the end of 1983. I spent the next 16 years finishing both high school and A&M and starting my career as a software engineer- but thoughts about what a fourth Star Wars movie might be like were fairly consistently in my mind.

I believe this is a part of the problem with the prequel trilogy. It simply could never meet the expectation of fans built over nearly two decades. I never thought TPM was as good as the OT, but I nevertheless found a lot of enjoyment in the movie. As for the prequel trilogy, I rank Revenge of the Sith just ahead of Return of the Jedi, with The Phantom Menace next. Attack of the Clones is the worst of that trilogy. But note that I don't hate any of those movies like I do the sequel trilogy.

I am not one of those Gen Xers that hate the prequels.

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Gen X here. My dad had to convince me to see Star Wars in June 1977. It became the greatest thing I had ever seen. The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi augmented that opinion - those three movies as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Alien were my favorites by the end of 1983. I spent the next 16 years finishing both high school and A&M and starting my career as a software engineer- but thoughts about what a fourth Star Wars movie might be like were fairly consistently in my mind.

I believe this is a part of the problem with the prequel trilogy. It simply could never meet the expectation of fans built over nearly two decades. I never thought TPM was as good as the OT, but I nevertheless found a lot of enjoyment in the movie. As for the prequel trilogy, I rank Revenge of the Sith just ahead of Return of the Jedi, with The Phantom Menace next. Attack of the Clones is the worst of that trilogy. But note that I don't hate any of those movies like I do the sequel trilogy.

I am not one of those Gen Xers that hate the prequels.

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Out of curiosity, did you read a lot of the EU materials?

I think part of got me about Episodes 1-3 is how it went out is way to invalidate EU material. I know the EU stuff wasn't strictly canon, but there are a lot of good ideas there that could have been adopted.