Last Post: 2:13:24am, 12/04/2020
Original 3 was okay. They were fantastic for their time, but looking at them from a modern perspective, they're firmly in the "okay" category.
Prequels are pretty good. Also looking back at them from a modern perspective, mind you. I just really like how they expanded the mythos, and made the universe feel like a lived-in place, rather than a small battle between an empire and rebels. (And I know the EU helped a lot with this too, but I mean in a more official sense).
The new trilogy is god-awful. Episode 7 was fine, but the next two were just dreadful, eliminating that sense of a large, lived-in galaxy in returning to the OT era.
The comics are generally really good, doubly so because some of them (like Aphra) show smaller stories that are separate from the main conflict.
The cartoons are utterly fantastic, and add so much life and flavor to each era they're a part of.
Haven't seen Mandalorian, but by all accounts it sounds fantastic.
So overall, I'm a big fan of Star Wars as a setting, though I think the movies are the weakest aspect of the entire franchise.
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