"The Moral Landscape of the STAR WARS Saga" - Introduction

[ladylavinia]

Comments

[arkan2]

We like to pretend that the majority of all human societies have basic rules when it comes to morality. But I suspect that is nothing more than an illusion. I believe that each individual . . . or each group has his/her or its own moral compass.I know this just me being an enormous pedant, but I'm going to take issue with this. That is, I agree with you, but at the same time, I disagree

[ladylavinia]

One thing though, I'm confused by your discussion of character flaws in the penultimate paragraph. What I think you meant to say was that while the characters in the Original Trilogy had their flaws, Lucas did an inferior job portraying their flaws compared to his depiction of the Prequel Trilogy's character's flaws (there's probably a less confusing way to say that). I think that's what you meant to say, but that's not quite how it came out.

I never said that Lucas had done an inferior job of portraying the flaws Original Trilogy characters. What I meant to say was that their flaws were simply not as strongly emphasized as the Trilogy characters. And I think that was due to the fact that the OT characters' flaws did not have such a strong impact upon the story, as those flaws of the Prequel Trilogy characters.