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STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE - Early Access - YT Edit (Patreon)

Published:
2025-12-22 22:36:53
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2026-08-08 16:22:09
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2026-10
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Myoclonic Jerk

It's interesting for me to watch the reception of these films across the various generations. The internet is weird in that we're able to see how these cultural touchstones are viewed differently. I was just behind the "target" audience for the first trilogy (i'm last-wave Gen X). I loved them like whoa, but a lot of it went over my head until i was a little older. Gen X in general took the original trilogy as holy tablets brought down from the mount, and i know a lot were severely disappointed by the prequels. Jar Jar was an irritating clown (C-3PO was comic relief, but Binks was hammy vaudeville), Anakin as a child seemed dumb (and the actor was... not good), midichlorians were an unnecessary explanation of something that was better when it was unexplained, & the political maneuvering seemed "not-adventurey" and dull. (Those are just some of the big issues.) Millennials, on the other hand, largely saw the prequels in theaters first & the OT at home later. So for them the vehicles/technology looked more primitive, despite it being a supposedly later time period (was a big complaint i heard at the time). The OT saber duels were choreographed by a real swordfighting expert, and looked like swordfighting really looks ( for the most part). But Millennials saw CGI-assisted backflips and somersaults and sabers thrown through the air and all kinds of what-have-you, so the fights in the OT looked boring. That's not to mention that information that was taken for granted in the prequels spoiled the "big reveals" in the OT. It's interesting to see various Gen Z folk react to the whole shebang. It just hits them different. Here, Camilla enjoys the Jar Jar goofiness while everyone i knew thought he was the most irritating thing since mosquitos. (Unimportant side story: around the time of Eps 2 & 3, i hung around with some folk who were part of a "mod" scooter club in Chicago nicknamed "The Vespa Alliance," and all of the members had club names based on characters from the Star Wars movies. There was this one dude who followed them around that no one liked, so they called him "Jar Jar." To his face, which i thought a bit rude...😂)

Camilla's Corner

yea I was honestly surprised to start to read in the comments that people disliked jar jar so much 🤣