The Jedi went from being knights the were guardians of peace and justice to a fucked up cult that abducts children to train them to fight in some holy war.
The Jedi were going to lose. They needed character flaws the Sith could exploit to explain their defeat.
Rather than these venerable and unimpeachable sages, they ended up being all too human - prone to the same fear and gullibility that has brought down any number of IRL civilizations.
The Prequels were accidentally pro-fascist movies.
Which makes sense, as they were a prelude to the Empire.
The Sequel Trilogy (at least the ones made by JJ Abrams) actually went into the emotional reasons why people are drawn to fascism
No they didn’t. They flirted with the idea, but gave up halfway through the first act of the Ep 7.
Then they ran of to make a shot for shot remake of New Hope, because Disney only knows how to plagiarize better material.
The Jedi were going to lose. They needed character flaws the Sith could exploit to explain their defeat.
Rather than these venerable and unimpeachable sages, they ended up being all too human - prone to the same fear and gullibility that has brought down any number of IRL civilizations.
Which makes sense, as they were a prelude to the Empire.
No they didn’t. They flirted with the idea, but gave up halfway through the first act of the Ep 7.
Then they ran of to make a shot for shot remake of New Hope, because Disney only knows how to plagiarize better material.