und beinahe vernichtete
Weiterhin gilt: das stimmt nichtmal annähernd, auch wenn manche mit den INhalt der Filme nicht zufrieden waren kann man sowas definitiv nicht behaupten. Fast vernichtet wurde SW unter Lucas.
btw, wo wir dabei sind ein netter Kommentar, dem ich zu 100% zustimme (dem Comic stimme ich natürlich auch zu)
"Ha. I’m an old and lived through both. Was a teen/early 20s when the prequels hit… and let me tell you, the hate was MUCH worse than anything the sequels even remotely have gotten.
Among real, living people in the actual world… it was 5:1 what the sequels got. After “Attack of the Clones” The Simpsons had an entire episode, featuring George Lucas, ripping how bad they were. I mean, Jar and GCI eyelashes, they went in on Lucas hard. It hurt me lol.
Jar Jar became an international punchline overnight. Gene Shalit ripped the prequels on “The Today Show.” Cable news hosts like Bill O’Reilly ripped them. Real people you met in the world loathed them. You would hear ‘They were cash grabs to sell toys, Lucas had ruined his legacy, Star Wars was dead and had been replaced by LOTR,’ etc.
Whereas “Phantom Menace” hate was immediate, “The Force Awakens” was a mega-hit. Universally loved by everyone - fans, critics, moviegoers - and followed up by a sleeper hit “Rogue One.”
Star Wars was taking victory laps from 2015 through 2017, when “Last Jedi” hype was off-the-charts. (TLJ upon release was the #6 blockbuster of all-time).
Now, AFTER that film’s mixed fan reaction, followed by TROS’s mixed reaction, that has changed the narrative. But it doesn’t change the history or the facts.
The difference in sequel hate is it’s mostly from chronically-online circles like Film Twitter or Subreddits. Your everyday moviegoer probably loves “The Force Awakens” and though the other films were “alright” and that’s it.
But to younger fans, I assure you… the overall reaction to these two trilogies at the time of release was not even remotely the same."
War halt so und Lucas hat außer Clone Wars (welches ja auch mit extrem miesen Film und ersten beiden Seasons gestartet ist), nicht viel dagegen gemacht.