The Guardian article perfectly illustrates where the problems lies with the hate for the Prequels, t

The Guardian article perfectly illustrates where the problems lies with the hate for the Prequels, the bashing of Hayden’s performance and everything that is wrong with basically every single article documenting the return of the Prequel cast in Obi-Wan Kenobi. The toxic but loud minority of SW fans has been only a small part of it; the real culprits have always been the media that have been bashing the movies ever since they came out. No, even before they had come out - there is literally an article/review which criticized George Lucas and the Phantom Menace even before it completed post-production. For more than 20 years, they have been constantly, unrelentingly, demeaning, attacking and insulting the three movies with the same sort of backhanded comments and jibes: too much CGI and not enough practical effects (even though the Prequels had more practical effects than the OT and ST), too much green screen (all the sci-fi and fantasy movies have been made on green screen and blue screen ever since, including the ST and Marvel movies; The Volume is awesome but basically only the SW series use it now so it’s everything but widespread), George Lucas writes terrible dialogue (the PT has literally the same type of dialogue as the OT,  which the writer of the article admits to by mentioning Harrison Ford’s comment), and so on. Imagine it, for a quarter of a century the same comments all over again, copied and pasted.The media outlets and its writers want to shift the blame to the fans when it’s been them all along who have been harassing the actors with their awful articles. The only thing that has changed in the recent years is that they want to exonerate themselves by shifting the blame on the fans and Lucas’ “terrible writing”, claiming it hasn’t been the actors’ faults and it’s time to “forgive them”. This article is the perfect example. The writer puts himself into a position of a magnanimous and understanding listener, ready to bestow his forgiveness and take the blame from Hayden by putting it on George, saying in every second sentence he writes that the Prequels were terrible movies, while Hayden, on the other hand, gushes about the Prequels that they are masterpieces and George is a genius. The article has two levels: the journalist shitting on the Prequels and Lucas and Hayden defending and admiring them.Hayden has always had only fond memories about the Prequels, not only now as the writer suggests. He has never said a single bad word about them or George Lucas. The only bad memories he’s had are of terrible articles about him.This is the one thing that really sucks about coming back from hiatus and returning to the Star Wars fandom - nothing has changed, especially the things that sucked about it. -- source link

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