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Wait 10 years, and people will make memes and change public opinion about the sequels.

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Prequels weren’t great, but they were decent. I’d recommend watching them.

There is a lot to live up to being prequels. People going to judge harshly.

7-8 were just plain bad, I enjoy Star Wars stuff a bunch. I like the prequels more than most I feel. I don’t even have one single care to watch the 9th.

I doubt it will change in 10 years.

Memes, sure, but they will be only how bad they suck. People who meme about the prequels usually enjoyed them at least a little.

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I love giving first time watchers the machete watching order. Watch episode 4 and 5, and then watch 2 and 3 to give Vader some backstory after he reveals that he’s Luke’s dad. Then cap it off with episode 6 as the conclusion for Luke’s and Anakin’s story.

Or I can start with Rogue One. I know one of my friends became a fan after watching Rogue One.

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My new favorite order is been Rogue One, 4, 5, then 1, 2, and 3 of the Hal 9000 edits, then 6. The fan edits are generally a little shorter, so the watching them all between 5 and 6 is less of a slog than the original 1, 2, and 3.

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The prequels are bad. The third one started getting it right, but then they were done.

They had good ideas to expand the Star Wars lore, but bad acting and bad writing ruined them.

I actually prefer the sequels, but imo The Mandalorian is the best Star Wars project to date.

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but imo The Mandalorian is the best Star Wars project to date.

You spelled Andor wrong.

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May I introduce you to Knights of the old republic 1 and 2 and the extened media projects?

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8 killed Star Wars for me. I don’t think I will ever watch the 9. Or what ever cash grabs they try next.

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I saw the originals as a child, and thus loved them.

I saw the prequels as an adult, and was kinda meh on 1 but loved 2 and 3.

While still an adult, I felt the same way about 7 and 8 as I did about 1.

But 9? I thought there was something wrong with me at first. I literally couldn’t believe what I’d just seen. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on that! It still hurts my brain to imagine all those people buying off on that script… It must have been an emperor’s new clothes sort of situation. Such a waste of so many things.

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The Last Jedi also has a lot of problems, but The Rise of Skywalker is possibly the worst film in the entire franchise. I’m still annoyed about the fact that they had a better script with a genuinely interesting story (Duel of the Fates), and cancelled it for the shitshow that was Rise of Skywalker.

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I found 9 enjoyable, but I had no expectations that it would be good or coherent. 8 made sure that there was no chance of that.

For what 9 had to do in a single movie, it did a reasonable job. Kylo had to be redeemed, Rey needed her jedi moment, an actual threat needed to be established, Leia’s death needed acknowledgement, rebels/resistance needed to be more than 20 people on a ship, poe and finn needed some sort of arc, and the good guys had to win.

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What was so wrong with the Last Jedi? I see reactions like this a lot but I thought it was far from being the worst star wars I’ve seen, and as a casual watcher of this series it was one of the few of them I actually enjoyed.

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The difference is that the prequels are still enjoyable, entertaining films with a lot of good aspects.

The sequels aren’t.

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4 points

Uh, no?

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3 points

Episode 1 in is entertaining. 2 and 3 are just awful. Especially 2.

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3 is great once order 66 starts at least. first half or so of 3 is pretty boring.

I choose to forget about 2 because it was just a load of nothing.

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No

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All thanks to Filoni

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