{"id":5176,"date":"2024-05-19T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.generic-hero.com\/ThisWeekinAurabesh\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2024-05-19T00:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T04:41:55","slug":"how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-phantom-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.generic-hero.com\/ThisWeekinAurabesh\/2024\/05\/19\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-phantom-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Phantom Menace<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the release of\u00a0The Phantom Menace<\/strong><\/em>, and that seems to me a good excuse to look back on Episode I<\/strong><\/em> and its place in fandom, especially my own.<\/p>\n

I am among the first generation of Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> fans and the return of Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> to the larger pop culture landscape in 1999 was a very big deal indeed. The movie’s cast was overflowing with well-known and well-regarded actors, and the marketing push was enormous. I’d never stopped being a Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> fan even after Return of the Jedi<\/strong><\/em> faded from memory, but the prospect of seeing a brand new Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> film on the big screen was something I’d given up on. It’s so very different today when it feels like Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> will never go away.<\/p>\n

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However, even before the movie’s premiere, there were murmurs of discontent, and after release some fans had strong negative reactions to the movie. I won’t belabor the point and subject you to a two-hour long video essay breaking down in excruciating and tedious detail all of the problems with The Phantom Menace<\/strong><\/em>. Honestly, the movie’s shortcomings are on the surface and obvious for all to see, and I basically agree with the criticisms we’ve heard over the last two decades. To this day, I’m baffled by some of the creative choices George Lucas made in the prequels.<\/p>\n

But I also don’t care. Even now, I can sit down and watch Episode I<\/strong><\/em> and have a good time. The pod race is daft and fun. The lightsaber work throughout is among the best in any Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> production. Liam Neeson brings a noble presence to the role of Qui-Gon, a character whose actions don’t always seem that noble. Ray Park took a brilliant character design and imparted into it a wonderful physicality that brought to life one of Star Wars<\/strong><\/em>‘ best villains. Everything you need to know about Darth Maul is right there in how he looks and how he moves.<\/p>\n

But among my friends and many of my fellow first generation Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> fans, The Phantom Menace<\/strong><\/em> was a disappointment. I think my reaction was tempered by the fact that I’d never stopped watching Star Wars<\/strong><\/em>. Since the original trilogy became available on home video, I’d rent all three from Blockbuster once or twice a year, and in between marathons there were countless comics and novels and games to discover as well.\u00a0Upon repeated viewings, it became clear to me that the original movies are not without their flaws. The lightsaber fight in the first is not good at all; it’s cringeworthy every time Luke and Leia kiss, and, boy, Harrison Ford doesn’t seem like he was trying too hard with what little he was given to work with in Return of the Jedi<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

And that’s not counting the Expanded Universe. I love so many of those original adventures that filled the gaps between movies, but plenty of those stories weren’t my cup of tea, to say the least. As far as I was concerned The Phantom Menace<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0was a damn masterpiece compared to Splinter of the Mind\u2019s Eye<\/em><\/strong> or Shadows of the Empire<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I make no bones about it: I grade Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> on a curve. In spite of Episode I<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s flaws and because of its ships and costumes and music and alien worlds, it still feels<\/em> like Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> to me, and that counts for a lot, indeed, it probably counts the most. Not everyone judges movies the same way. That\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n

As a Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> fan who is more on the fanatic side of the spectrum, I\u2019ve engaged with the movies and fandom in ways different than others whose appreciation is more casual. I watched the backlash to the prequels turn to anger at people who were just trying to make a kid\u2019s adventure movie. Anger at people who most certainly did not deserve it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve become frustrated with friends when discussing The Phantom Menace<\/strong><\/em>. Their complaints are nothing I haven\u2019t seen, heard and read a hundred times already. I don\u2019t think anyone is wrong or unjustified for disliking the movie, but when the reactions are so strident and filled with bile years or decades after the fact, I start to wonder if something else is going on. I think George Lucas\u2019 cardinal sin may be that he failed to make a generation of jaded 30 years olds feel like they were 8 again.<\/p>\n

I have also chatted about The Phantom Menace<\/strong><\/em> with younger fans who grew up with the prequels the way I grew up with the original trilogy, and their reaction is often quite different because they sometimes feel like they need to temper their enthusiasm with embarrassment because older fans hate the prequels. Now I see the cycle of conflict repeating between fans of this new era of Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> and followers of the older ones. And this all just makes me sad. No one should be embarrassed for liking something.<\/p>\n

One of my great pleasures over the years has been watching new people discover Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> for themselves. Each generation has their own era:the Original Trilogy, the Expanded Universe, Prequels, the Clone Wars-Rebels-Ahsoka cycle, the Sequels, Rogue One\/Andor<\/strong><\/em>, the High Republic, and on and on. I love that what Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> means to me is different from someone else. My nephews could rattle off the names of every clone who fought in the Clone Wars; I draw a blank after Rex and Cody.<\/p>\n

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Seeing that kind of enthusiasm for different parts of\u00a0Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> lore makes me want to see what I\u2019m missing. I don’t connect with it all by any stretch of the imagination, but because of my nephews, I gave Dave Filoni’s Clone Wars<\/strong><\/em> show a second chance, and I’m glad I did.\u00a0Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> is better with Captain Rex, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Doctor Aphra, Luthan Rael, Rose Tico, Ezra Bridger, Satele Shan and Geode in it. And, yes, Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> is better with Jar Jar Binks in it.<\/p>\n

It’s not my position that\u00a0The Phantom Menace<\/strong><\/em> is “good, actually” or that it\u2019s above criticism. It is, at best, a shaggy dog of a film, but isn\u2019t every Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> movie? What I\u2019m saying is this: don\u2019t turn that dislike into resentment. There are bad actors out there all too willing to harvest that resentment to feed the algorithm and force their tastes on everyone else. Just because you loved Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> as a kid, doesn\u2019t mean you have to love it years later. It\u2019s okay to move on and let Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> become something different for new audiences. Just don\u2019t be a dick about it. No one likes hipsters who tell people they\u2019re wrong for liking the things they like.<\/p>\n

In the end, I think the closest that Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> can actually come to making you feel like an eight year old again is to see it through someone else\u2019s eyes. Let their discovery of it remind you of your own, even if it\u2019s not the same as yours.<\/p>\n

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