Star Wars: 10 Massive Plot Holes The Prequels Stupidly Created

8. Why Did Technology Suddenly Become A Lot Less Advanced?

Of course, there'€™s a very simple real world solution for this one; CGI got much, much better. In fact, the advancements showcased in the early nineties were the sole reason Lucas decided to make the prequels.

The original Star Wars was incredibly entertaining and boasted groundbreaking action sequences, but what really made it so revolutionary was what it did with sci-fi. Up until then it was all clean white and sleek designs; George Lucas introduced a used future and the genre became something a lot more realistic and relatable. The opening of A New Hope, with the blast marks on the white corridor walls, is a muddying of everything that€™'s been before.

The prequels were equally as forward thinking, introducing previously impossible designs (the silver Naboo cruisers) and heightening the action (the pod race and any large scale action sequence). But as cool as it looked, it was increasingly distant from Star Wars. Why in the original trilogy was technology so behind and, yes, realistic? It seems the obsession with good effects lost the sense of style.

The most outrageous change is the introduction of R2-D2€™'s rocket boosters, which he uses willy nilly in AOTC and ROTS, but doesn't use when he really needed them in the original trilogy.