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My thoughts, a year later. Personally, the first four of five points just amount to "Which movies make better toys". If you like the designs of the prequels and hate the designs of the sequels, im not gonna tell you you're wrong. But like...none of that really matters. Both have their own look and feel (and neither really look like the original trilogy, so......) and I don't think it's worth condemning one or the other just because the enemy flagships are a little uninspired. Both had new alien races, and I can't agree that the presence or absence of a twi'lek makes either series good or bad. So basically just the politics then. Which, admittedly, it is kind of whiplash that all of a sudden we have an Empire again. Though I hardly consider the prequel trilogy's politics easy to follow. Who the heck is the Trade Federation? I get they're being manipulated by Palpatine, but ..... why? What do they gain? Why listen to some shcmuck in a robe that is telling you to kill magic knights than can solo your entire army (and were invited as arbiters in a diplomatic dispute). Why does Anakins entire arc hinge on the political faux pas of a senator falling in love with a Jedi (I know the Jedi discourage love .... for some reason .... but why would the senate? Are there logical assumptions? Yeah, sure, probably. But nothing in the text of the film). I have no argument that the sequels politics are clunky, even bad. But apples to apples, The Sequels' politics are simplistic and black and white. There are clear bad guys, that know they're bad guys. The Prequels politics are just....nonsense. It's just law-speak and mumbo jumbo where people give inadequate explanations for their actions and just don't act rationally. And other than Tatooine, I don't rememer much "culture" from the four places in the galaxy worth looking at, other than maybe Tatooine and "briefly" Naboo. In terms of direction, I won't sing the sequels praises, but the prequels are just utter garbage. The story boarding makes no sense. Characters are flat and bland with little to no character development. 75%+ of scenes involve two characters either walking while talking, or sitting while talking in shot/reverse-shot, involve characters who are supposed to be the wisest in the galaxy making incredibly stupid decisions ("Master Yoda thinks raising a child this old is a bad idea. But okay, sure, permission granted." "Anakin has been training here for several years now and he's very clearly angry, defiant and has hotheaded. Perhaps Master Yoda's opinion was worth listening to. Eh, w/e you can keep training him, it's fine...im sure"). As the movies go on, The Trade Federation and even Dooku's motivations are .... incredibly unclear. (The third movie STARTS with attacking Grievous, a Sith who was never mentioned before. Why are there so many Sith allied with the Trade Federation again. Is nobody going to investigate this?) I can keep going. Personally, I hold no love for the sequels. But the prequels I hold nothing but contempt for. They're all among the worst movies I've ever seen. The Sequels are bad, very bad even, but to me a lot more watchable.

Wars have to have a start. Politics usually starts wars. You don't just start fighting for no reason. The prequels fleshed out how we got to the original trilogy

I am the subscribing if you like the ones with Ray worse than the ones with Anakin Skywalker fling on some girl and then some cool dies of the heartbreak from subscribing there’s nothing you can say to make me subscribe and subscribe

Star Wars needs a big " I am your farther"-reveal? Ever since I saw Ep.1 as my first Star Wars movie, I've wondered who Anakin's father is, but it has not been revealed yet... The reveal has never happened in the first place!

3 monkeys taking a sh*t are better than the "sequels".

Just because sequels are terrible, does not mean the prequels are good. It's pointless to argue what is kind of sh*t is better. No amount of extended universe BS Lucas has showed down your throats will make prequels good.

Somehow palpatine returned is another sequel meme Still hate those movies though

The sequels are just a disaster in every way and even though i have the choice to never see them again, im still mad at just how meaningless they were. No soul.

This is the dumbest thing I've seen. 10/10 art

Wow, this just goes to show how long ago this show was made lol

i was here

Great season all along.

Wow I remember watching the pilot the first day and ten years was so far away at the time.

Amsterdam in Denmark? It’s in the Netherlands bro

even the worst sequel is a better film than even the best prequel. And being the product of a singular vision didn't make the prequel trilogy any less incoherent and inconsistent across its iterations. Literally every point in here is a massive L, purely subjective, or immediately falsifiable.

Awesome vid! Hope this new channel takes off!

March of the Resistance is actually probably my favorite Star Wars song despite it coming from the inferior trilogy. It's epic, triumphant, and doesn't have large sections of mellow like many soundtrack pieces have. It's up there with the Imperial March, Throne Room Theme, and Dual of the Fates for me. Also I just followed you from your other channel, and wouldn't you know it I like this stuff too!

Cool ranking, will be watching a couple.

I've always hated the argument about Mr. Fantastic. It shows that those "fans" aren't even familiar with Marvel at all! She-Hulk mocked the trope about heroes fighting villains with the same powers.

So i watched duel of the fates and then rey vs kylo. Wow it's like watching theatre kids fight after ths cocaine high is over

"Why the prequels are better than the Sequels" is that even a Debate?

The Sequel Trilogy was just a carbon copy of the Originals

You forgot to mention the duels in the sequels. In the prequels, the duels were not only fan favorites but choreographed in such a way that it almost seemed like we were watching a real duel between two talented swordsmen. Sure critics and professional swordsmen have pointed out how some moves of the duels would not work in real life but still, everyone agreed that they still made the duel more intense and pleasing. The best example would be the spinning moves which in real life, look cool but are absolutely useless in an actual fight. Still, it was enough to show that this duel was one to the death. Even the scene where Obi-wan and Anakin use the force on each other add to the intensity. The music, the background, the fast pacing/movements, and even the weapons themselves screamed "Only one shall stand and while others shall fall." Then we have the sequels where the duels are literally two kids grabbing baseball bats and smacking them against each other for as hard as they could in hopes the other bat would break. The music is very forgettable, the backgrounds are absolutely garbage on screen(literally, the throne room fight, forest battle, and final fights were all good backgrounds on paper but they were very poorly executed on screen), the pacing was unreasonably slow, and the weapons gave us the feeling that the guys just grab whatever they could are still figuring out how to use it despite Kylo being trained by two masters. The moves were so bad or out of place, it doesn't even take a professional to figure what is wrong with the duels. And what's with force stopping the lightsabers in the middle of the fight? I know they wanted to make the fights intense by adding something to the slow pacing but boy that was a bad idea.

Star Wars I through III are about the downfall of democracy and the rise of a dictatorship catalyzed by pursuits of power and the corruption of good intentions, Star Wars IV through VI are a classic epic with the hero and villain ping ponging their positions, Star Wars VII through IX-nothing of substance happens...

This rules

Real Star Wars fans know the prequels are better than the sequels.

Who is actually trying to debate this? I wanna know

Just watched re-watched the entire series with my kids and I have to say we all enjoyed the sequel trilogy overall more. It was ROUGH getting through Episode I. So much that the kids wanted to skip Episode II and go to III. The prequels (well, Episode I & II) are just full of awful acting with people sitting and talking, walking and talking, and acting that shows absolutely zero emotion in front of aftifical green screen evironments. As bad as the writing was in the sequels, at least they had things happening, and characters actually showed emotion. I like Episode III, but they could shoot parts I & II into the sun and I wouldn't shed a tear

This is a great example of why AI will never truly take over. Human ingenuity at its finest

And 100% worse than OT. So ST is 200% worse.

Prequel fans: added context in the books dont make the sequels better. Also prequel fans: well if you read the books, play the video games, read the comics, and watch the TV show, youd understand that jar jar is actually an amazing character.

Star Wars is popcorn theater People got to remember that going in and when you criticize it. As popcorn theater the prequels are amazing and revenge of the sith is IMO the second greatest popcorn theater movie of all time behind the mummy

only new spacecraft i remember and like from the sequels is the first oreder troopr trantsort, but even then its design is lazy

One of my favorite Videos still is the one where Doug Chiang (one of the designers at Lucas Film) and Amy Beth Christenson discuss the history of the Starfighters in Star Wars. They start with the OT, very in-depth explanation, go over the PT, still very in-depth. Then the ST is just like: X-Wing, but bigger. Tie Fighter, but bigger and now has a red stripe. Very funny imo.

"The prequels are better than the sequels" Yes, but that doesn't mean much. It's like saying that Wendy's sh**burger is better than McDonald's sh**burger. Both are terrible slabs of greasy cardboard unsuitable for human consumption, but at least Wendy's doesn't make you sick within the first five minutes. Yeah, well that's a claim to fame.

Anyone who says “Prequels and sequels BOTH suck.” are basically calling Star Wars a bad franchise. Because if 3 are good but 6 are bad, then it’s not a good franchise. I love all Star Wars films. Prequels are my favorite. I also like the sequels, but it’s kinda a mixed bag. Rise of Skywalker was mediocre at worst, but I still enjoyed it, my main problem was Palpatine. I will say however, the fan base is doing more damage to Star Wars than Disney. Update: My ranking best to worst for each trilogy: Original: 6 5 4 Prequel: 3 1 2 Sequel: 7 8 9

Like Dome on somehow palpatine retturned is pretty mutch on hello there lvl

As a long time Digimon fan, the accuracy of this video pains me. I love the dub but, God, I hate Hey Digimon.

Reason the prequels work is simple. George had the basic framework done for all 3 movies before shooting began on phantom menance. With the sequels its not the case. You can see they were eyeballing it.

I read the f*cking title wrong. MF READ IT AS 'why the sequels are 100% better than the prequels'

Your not a Star Wars fan if you think the Star Wars sequels were an overall better trilogy than the prequels

Emperor is that you.

I need a list of Who has ever said that the sequels are better than the prequels, I just want to talk with them

The fans nearly ruined the prequels with their complaining and Disney ruined Star Wars in general. George was not right for dialing back jar jar. He was set up to be the big baddie and was only pretending to be a bumbling fool. Kind of like how Yoda was behaving when we first see him in episode V.

The Prequels were enjoyed by most people when they came out. It was only as time went on that the loud minority went on rants about how the Prequels are bad and the RLM videos are just a bunch of nitpicks disguised as legitimate critiques. Growing up seeing the OT on VHS and then seeing the Prequels in the theater, I love the 6 Star Wars movies made under George Lucas’s direction of how the story would go from beginning to end. What Disney has done with their ownership of the franchise is not at all Star Wars. It’s corporate fiction where they have people come and make films that don’t really know much about Star Wars and don’t exactly want to know about it either. The sequel trilogy idea died once it was agreed not to follow George’s outline from beginning to end. I always believed that the Prequels would be looked at more fondly by some of those who were railing against them for some years, it just happened a bit faster due to people being unhappy with what’s been released under the Star Wars name under Disney’s ownership. Because of this, people claim it’s revisionist history for people to say the Prequels are now good because of the new movies. Again, I was always confident that the Prequels would age quite well with those who weren’t fond of them initially and were vocal about their dislike of them. They may not enjoy them over the OT, but they’d like them enough where they wouldn’t just hate them for not being what they wanted them to be, which I think is part of why some disliked them initially.

Seriously, the SW oldhead fans are the worst. I love SW, but i decided to watch the Disney sequel for the first time like a month ago, of course, after wacthing the original and the prequel trilogies first. And you know something, they are not that bad, they are enjoyable and consistent. The last Disney movie is bad, but that movie is not worst than the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. I get it that you feel nostalgia about the first 6 movies, but, all of the 9 movies, (including the original trilogy, that is truly a movie masterpiece) have their highs and lows. Still, the lows from the prequel are way worse than the lows from the Disney movies. "Somehow Palpatine return" is a better arc than "Sign this treaty so i can invade Naboo, with your queen permission" and "let this padawan protect this senator, who is dealing with death threats, instead of an actual jedi master or knight more capable. Also, this padawan have a crush on this senator, nothing bad could happen". Liking the first two Disney movies doesnt mean i'm agaisnt what Lucas built over 40 years. I still love the original trilogy, love the revenge of the sith (i just watched the PM and AOTC because of Liam and Lee's performances, and due to the plot, in order to watch ROTS). If you dont like it, fine, dont watch it, but dont act like this Disney trilogy is ruining SW legacy, they made like 4.3+ billion dollars in box office because a SW public like it, and the critics ranked them great. At the worst case, people will treat that last Disney movie like they treat the Christmas special (which is canon, and people forgot about it).

I grew wup with the originals and the prequels an when the prequels were released I always favored the. Over the OG mainly for the lore

I agree.the prequels are way better and awesome than the sequels.

They’re also better than the original trilogy

the music in the prequels is so good compared to the sequels, one example I can think of is general grievous's theme its played twice in the prequels for both of his appearances but it fits his character so well that just the intro of it alone you can get a good idea of what kind of character general grievous is and is so memorable that i think of it every time I cough. compare that to kilo ren's theme. I didn't even realize he had one, upon giving it a listen its a good theme but the fact still stands that i didn't realize the main antagonist (until an unnamed somebody somehow returned) had a theme is disappointing, while a side antagonist who had 6m 30s of screen time had such a memorable theme that I still think of it when I cough says enough about how the music in the prequels is better.