Maul getting killed off didn't bother me. It's funny because he did more in the little screen time he had, than Boba Fett did in all his appearances combined. Boba didn't do **** yet people love him just for looking cool.
Another example of people just finding reasons to complain about the prequels because they were brainwashed to think it's cool to hate those movies.
the difference is that maul was the main villain and by far the coolest villain in the prequels. so it's fair to say they wasted him
Boba was never anything more than a minor side character, but people love him because of how great the OG movies were.
Boba is like a role player that becomes a fan favorite while Maul is d rose getting hurt and missing the rest of the season after the second month of the season
Maul wasn't the main villian in Ep. 1, that title goes to Sidious. I mean, depending on how literal you take the title, he IS the Phantom Menace.
sidious was also the "main villain" in the OG movies
except vader was the face of evil and he was what got in the way of the protagonist
You can't compare Vader with Maul. Although Sidious IS the main Villain of the OT it's the Skywalker story. It's HIS family's story. He IS the chosen one. You can't even begin to compare the significance of Vader with Maul.
We aren't rehashing anything, it's fine you like the prequels, I'm only pointing out the 3 items you specifically bring up, and 2 of them happened at the end of the final film, as opposed to everything spread out over the course of 3 full films.
At minimum, you should be able to acknowledge that, doesn't mean you don't like them as is or anything.
The fall of the Jedi, and Anakin's turn should have covered more than a 20-30 minute montage of hundreds of Jedi being eliminated in one fell swoop. I don't see why anyone would be upset about that.
Those two points do happen slowly. You're taking the event of Order 66, and literally pointing to that as the fall of the Jedi. You can't be that literal man. The fall of the Jedi starts in the beginning failing to recognize they were being played like a fiddle by Sidious. Not only were they ignorant to the machinations of the Dark Side, they were arrogant as hell in the process. Dooku himself tells Obi STRAIGHT UP in Episode II they were being controlled by a Sith Lord and he literally brushes it off. Not only that, they literally went from being the peace keepers of the galaxy, to generals in a galactic war, abandoning everything they Jedi stood for. This proccess slowly unravels throughout the three movies. Order 66 wasn't the fall of the Jedi, that was the point of no return for them. Their fall isn't one event, it's a slow process that Sidious plays out in the three films. Sidious plays it so well, he even gets the Galactiv Senate to turn on the Jedi as well.
As far as Anakin, his turn to the dark side starts in Episode II. The constant anger, rage, fear, and obsession he shows throughout that movie foreshadows what's to come. He slaughters Sand People, including the woman and kids in Ep. II. How is that not the beginning of his turn to the dark side. Again, you take the event with Sidious/Mace/ and Anakin as the moment he turns to the dark side but yet again it's more complicated than that. Sidious feeds on his fear, plays him like he did the Jedi, and slowly but surely lures him in. The moment you point out, is again, the point of no return.
But like I said, we've had this debate, and we'll never agree.
Ehhhhhhhhhh it's not a terrible stretch, but it's a bit of one. I hear ya on the slow play, but that doesn't make it the right play.
He did have his momentary lapse in II, but he's still a Jedi hero thru Sith til the final scenes. Hell, he turned Sidious in to the Jedi. If Mace wasn't so stupid, they defeat him and Anakin never comes close to turning.
He literally showed up with 3 worthless Jedi killed in 4 seconds.
You have a Sith Lord, runnin your whole government, you get the info, Mace shoulda brought the whole Temple with him.
Thing is, we knew the end game. We had known for 20 years that Anakin falls, why slow play it? Why have one scene thru two films? Why still be a beloved Jedi hero for an hour and a half thru the third? He tells Ben he loves him, he's sorry, etc, and 14 minutes later he "hates" him and tries to kill him.
We knew the ending, so slow playin it was the wrong move. Nothin we could do now, but i wish GL went with late teen Anakin with anger in I, mid 20's Jedi starting to turn in II, and then full on Vader destroying the Jedi order in III.
That was the story we deserved to see George tell. Had he been younger, maybe he would have. I get the whole kid thing, and merchandise, and all that, just wish he gave us the story truer to what Ben said in IV.