Jar Jar was universally hated, but Anakin across the prequel trilogy was mainly a victim of bad writing. At least up until he was featured in that CGI cartoon; but that kind of slowly slid into people hating him for being too much of an asshole, iirc.
MAD actually did this.
No, he was still badly written there.
Seriously, we've all seen it. I promise you there's more material to make fun of.
As we all know, there has been an moratorium on anything related to "Complete Monster" and "Magnificent Bastard" for just over an year, at this point. And the jannies still haven't found a PC way of saying "why can't you be normal!" to their demented userbase.
I remember hearing that the prequels weren't the most popular when they first came out, partially due to fans setting their expectations too high and being upset when what they got didn't match what they thought should have been made, and I’m sure that there was fair criticism for the script and acting, but it really does feel like the worst of it was fueled by the Plinkett reviews and assorted big-names shitting on it. Once you get South Park claiming George Lucas raped their childhood by editing movies and making a less-than-perfect sequel, it's hard to feel that the criticism was fair and not just angry fans latching onto something to make their complaints sound coherent.
I preferred Revenge of the Sith, and I feel even most prequel-haters will concede that it was the best of the trilogy, but TPM had the Duel of the Fates and that is worth a whole load of points.
Yeah, but I honestly think that this was just an byproduct of following the status quo. Since he never really grew out of being an edgy asshole in Revenge of the Sith. But the premise of just dumping an apprentice on the one emotionally unstable rookie is kind of funny; even though it never actually became an issue, iirc.
Revenge of the Sith was mainly good for showing everyone exactly how everything fell to shit. Which is a lot better than any of the original trilogy. But Phantom Menace didn't really have a lot of reasons to be hated, since how can someone hate the idea of chariot racing with jet engines? Or the final act of that movie?
There’s a strange contrarian opinion, largely held by people who weren’t even alive during the release of the prequels or by people wanting to blame literally anyone other than Disney for the failure of the sequels, to elevate the Prequels as some sort of misunderstood work. It hinges entirely on the Plinkett reviews forming peoples opinion, completely ignoring they 1) were very obscure until after the Sequel trilogy had started, 2) the Prequels were derided contemporaneously, and 3) the Plinkett videos merely stood apart by critiquing the actual filmmaking of the Prequels in a concrete and cohesive manner rather than the disparate talking points that had arisen from the layman’s criticism (i.e. people knew they were bad but couldn’t necessarily verbalize why they were bad).
They were pretty bad, but not so bad they weren't at least entertaining to watch. After all, I still did watch all three. I have no interest in watching Disney Soy Wars ever though.
And as per fucking usual, nothing ever happens until it fucks up the ad revenue. Doesn't really help that all they're talking about was the merger and forcing the conversation to stay away from American politics. At any rate, some guy randomly linked his blog and looking through it...It's not worth reading.
I agree with everything else you said but really?
Part of the reason people finally started coming around on the prequels is because the Sequels came out and showed everyone what an actual bad Star Wars movie looks like. Jar Jar stepping on poop will never be as perpetually damaging to the franchise as Laura Dern with purple hair blowing up an entire fleet with a Hyperspace jump.
