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Indeed, Episode I uses its legacy as a crutch. In the midst of an eye-popping "pod race" scene on Tatooine, just as the action promises to run away with the audience, Lucas dribbles in gratuitous allusions to the action-figure world he begat in his youth: Jawas cheer "Utidi...
Elsewhere, Lucas uses the old movies with less trite but equally lame intent. Qui-Gon needs to appear wise; thus, Lucas puts him in the back of a sea-pod cockpit, murmuring confident wisdom ("There's always a bigger fish.") just as Kenobi once presided behind Han Solo's pilot...
Dependency on the originals extends far beyond decorative quoting: it informs the structure of Lucas' script so that Episode I gets lost in a world of juicy but ultimately soulless revelation. Every five minutes a new character makes its incredibly propitious entrance into the Star Wars saga--R2-D2 is...
Just as in Jedi Lucas plays with his characters without developing them--Luke's last meeting with Yoda was quick, getting to the meat of the story and leaving, thus making the meat rather dry--the plot of Episode I runs along, too busy with explanation of the originals to...
Fans are essentially interested in Lucas' imaginary universe, but because the magic of that universe depends on the richness of Lucas' imagination, Lucas has to do more than just make up more "stuff." Unfortunately, the point of a prequel is to explain a story already told; it relies on the...