Shallow Thoughts: Star Wars

I wonder if in about 10 years, when the kids who grew up with the Star Wars prequels hit their 20s, if we aren't going to see another reversal on George Lucas. Maybe when they aren't viewed from the stance of nostalgia the kids will come to the conclusion that these movies aren’t really that bad. They don’t succeed in doing what they set out to do maybe, but that they are a good visual treat at least.

I suppose they’ll say that much of the hatred for the maligned trilogy comes down to the fans who weren’t transported back to their childhood. They might even claim that this expectation was a feat too great for even the mighty Quinn Lucas to perform. You’ve got to remember these will be kids who are about ten now and will be rebellious and irritated at all us old folk in that day.

Really I wonder how not having an expectation will effect their judgment of the end product. In ten years, will the compass come full circle causing everyone to just decide that George Lucas was a visionary ahead of his time again? Will Jar Jar Binks be seen as some perfect pre-post-post-camp icon?

Will anyone even be discussing it? Maybe what’ll end up happening is that even the prequels will be considered too much of their parent’s thing and they’ll ignore it completely, opting instead to complain about how Sponge Bob the Next Generation craps all over the original.