Is it possible to have a scenario on the Internet where Star Wars Prequel Apologists are either dominant or run rampant and those who hate or dislike the prequels are forced into originaltrilogy.com, 4chan or the darker corners of the internet?
You know, something like "Twilight or Justin Bieber or any crappy teen/tween material today status"---it's bad, really bad but there are legions of fangirls/apologists that will kill anyone or humiliate anything that speaks out against it--basically a scenario where the Star Wars prequels get undeserved praise.
Bonus points if the haters actually manage to come back and bite the apologists in the ass a few years later and the prequels become more scruntinzed from
This is not new in pop culture. For instance, despite it's rep these days, when season 2 of the original Digimon aired in the US it was actually quite popular when it aired, in the beginning, the only thing that people hated was the epilogue, and mostly did so from the basis of shipping and hate dumb, through there were grumbles about the Dark Ocean not being adopted into a arc from time to time. It was only until very recently that there has been backlash against the show's plot holes and characterization along with general problems in the show.
This was also true with the reputation of Scrappy-Doo from Scooby-Doo People talk about Scrappy Doo as if he's this diabolical loathed thing, but people forget, the only reason Scooby Doo as a franchise survived was because of Scrappy Doo (and I'm being literal).
So, in your mind, Is it possible to have a scenario on the Internet where Star Wars Prequel Apologists, perhaps backed by some mainstream prequel apologists in the media run rampant and those who hate or dislike the prequels are forced into the darker corners of the internet and receive undeserve praise? If so, how could it be "cured"?
For me, what could have worked was that George Lucas removed some of the more glaring flaws of the PT but kept some of the bigger ones pointed by RLM, that ways the movies could be still considered "bad" but "watchable".
For Episode I, cut out Jar-Jar and the Midichlorians, and have a less whiney teenager portray Anakin, but the "no protagonist problem" pointed out by RLM still persists(this is about creating prequel apologists, not fixing the fundamental problems with the movie), for episode II, have better actors with chemistry portray Anakin and Padame, but keep the wooden dialogue/script, and episode III is written without "Noooooooo" and the broken heart crap. It would also help if there were no plot changes in the Special Editions---Han Still shoots first and Anakin's ghost is represented by Shaw instead of Hayden. This may also butterfly away the "People vs. George Lucas" movie. Also no chefelf.com, they were the most prominent prequel haters before RLM.
Also it would have helped if the new Clone Wars got pilot episodes on TV instead of a crappy movie, while there are prequel haters that like TCW(I have a friend who hates the prequels that loves TCW because it fixed Jar Jar and Anakin), the majority of it's haters are prequel haters and they tend to use the movie as their main point of argument in debates....butterfly away the TCW movie could actually help the Prequel era in that regard.
NOTE: I am not a prequel apologist
You know, something like "Twilight or Justin Bieber or any crappy teen/tween material today status"---it's bad, really bad but there are legions of fangirls/apologists that will kill anyone or humiliate anything that speaks out against it--basically a scenario where the Star Wars prequels get undeserved praise.
Bonus points if the haters actually manage to come back and bite the apologists in the ass a few years later and the prequels become more scruntinzed from
This is not new in pop culture. For instance, despite it's rep these days, when season 2 of the original Digimon aired in the US it was actually quite popular when it aired, in the beginning, the only thing that people hated was the epilogue, and mostly did so from the basis of shipping and hate dumb, through there were grumbles about the Dark Ocean not being adopted into a arc from time to time. It was only until very recently that there has been backlash against the show's plot holes and characterization along with general problems in the show.
This was also true with the reputation of Scrappy-Doo from Scooby-Doo People talk about Scrappy Doo as if he's this diabolical loathed thing, but people forget, the only reason Scooby Doo as a franchise survived was because of Scrappy Doo (and I'm being literal).
So, in your mind, Is it possible to have a scenario on the Internet where Star Wars Prequel Apologists, perhaps backed by some mainstream prequel apologists in the media run rampant and those who hate or dislike the prequels are forced into the darker corners of the internet and receive undeserve praise? If so, how could it be "cured"?
For me, what could have worked was that George Lucas removed some of the more glaring flaws of the PT but kept some of the bigger ones pointed by RLM, that ways the movies could be still considered "bad" but "watchable".
For Episode I, cut out Jar-Jar and the Midichlorians, and have a less whiney teenager portray Anakin, but the "no protagonist problem" pointed out by RLM still persists(this is about creating prequel apologists, not fixing the fundamental problems with the movie), for episode II, have better actors with chemistry portray Anakin and Padame, but keep the wooden dialogue/script, and episode III is written without "Noooooooo" and the broken heart crap. It would also help if there were no plot changes in the Special Editions---Han Still shoots first and Anakin's ghost is represented by Shaw instead of Hayden. This may also butterfly away the "People vs. George Lucas" movie. Also no chefelf.com, they were the most prominent prequel haters before RLM.
Also it would have helped if the new Clone Wars got pilot episodes on TV instead of a crappy movie, while there are prequel haters that like TCW(I have a friend who hates the prequels that loves TCW because it fixed Jar Jar and Anakin), the majority of it's haters are prequel haters and they tend to use the movie as their main point of argument in debates....butterfly away the TCW movie could actually help the Prequel era in that regard.
NOTE: I am not a prequel apologist