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Originally Posted by kerowo
I don't think the prequels where any kind of reboot and the story was pretty awful. Tell 4, 5, and 6 again without Luke and Leia being siblings, without cute teddy bears defeating tanks and the other dumb things in the story.
reboots are only needed when the
current storyline has played out in such a way that continuing it is untenable
for instance the Clooney Batman - there's no way anybody could pick up from there. or the jazz dancing Spiderman. or the Hulk movie that nobody saw and was awful to begin with.
I'm not even sure the Star Trek movie was a reboot in the traditional sense - it told a backstory that afaik did not already exist (or certainly didn't exist in Star Trek movies). I think it's much more prequel then reboot, though I understand there are elements of both. I know there are some things that changed with Pike but only super hardcore fans would know this. and since the characters in the current movies are so much younger than the TV show characters, it's believable that the Pine Kirk and the Shatner Kirk are the same guy. Nimoy coming back to play Spock is evidence of this as well.
anyways, the bolded isn't the case with Star Wars since the storyline for the terrible prequels has already reached the end of its arc. they could pick up 1 day after ROTJ and create a great story or pick it up 100 years after - either way there aren't all these terrible legacy things they need to write around.
Last edited by wholecut; 11-02-2012 at 08:50 AM.