10 Reasons You’re Wrong About The Star Wars Prequels

Trying to find consensus when it comes to Star Wars is near enough impossible so it's probably worth clarifying my own position on the Sequel Trilogy before getting into this. The Force Awakens? Great, if not a little derivative. The Last Jedi? Superb. The Rise of Skywalker? Well... not so much.

But if there was one thing most fans would be able to agree on regarding the sequels, it's that they suffered from a lack of planning.

There was no cohesive vision that bound The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi or The Rise of Skywalker together, with Lucasfilm instead allowing each film to be developed independent of the other. This approach worked with the Original Trilogy - which benefitted from having a variety of filmmakers at the table - but the end result this time around was a slapdash finale that spent so much time undoing what the previous effort accomplished, it ended up rupturing the foundations of the saga altogether.

The prequels, by contrast, did have a plan. They were shepherded by George Lucas from beginning to end, and he told the story he wanted to tell. Was it flawed? Absolutely. But it was harmonious as opposed to dissonant. Everyone was singing from the same hymn sheet, and, at the end of the day, there's a lot to be said about seeing that one vision - as messy as it could sometimes be - unfurl over the course of three films.