Like that comic, they could literally make it a Disney style musical and we'd probably be saying "eh, it was better than the prequels I guess."
how many times did da vinci remake the mona lisa? exactly. you don't fuck with a masterpiece, you leave it alone. fucking morons.
Your analogy would make sense if we were talking about the "special edition" stupidity that Lucas forced down everyone's throats. Which we're not. An analogy for your point of view would be if DaVinci stopped painting after the Mona Lisa because he had painted the best painting ever. Which is dumb.
What ruined it for me it was the transporters that could take you all the way to Qo'Nos. Star Trek always plays pretty loose with physics and I'm fine with that, like them glossing over the fact that they created a massive black hole in the middle of the Sol system at the end of the first Flare Trek. I know it seems like a minor detail, but the idea that Khan was able to rig a transporter to travel 112 light-years is such a ridiculous departure from the internal consistency of Star Trek that I couldn't stop thinking about it for the entire rest of the movie.
no, my analogy is perfect, because da vinci painted the mona lisa, then he went on to do many other beautiful paintings. just like george lucas made star wars, then went on and did indiana jones. the point is, the original star wars had a beginning (a new hope), a middle (empire strikes back), and a conclusion (return of the jedi). the star wars story is OVER. it has an ending. vader returns from the dark side, kills the emperor and sacrifices himself to save his son, luke overcomes the dark side and becomes a jedi master, han and leia fall in love and wind up together, and the empire is defeated. there's nothing left to tell. the story is over. JJ coming along and writing some shitty new story where the emperor has a secret twin brother who is now out to avenge him, leai and han get married and move into a three story brownstone, luke runs phoenix online jedi academy institute, and C3PO finally comes out of the closet is not riveting cinema. and yes, this may be hyperbole, but i guarantee you the actual trilogy won't be anything better than what i just proposed.
Your opinion is understood and rejected. The story keeps going and its fucking awsome. I wish these new movies followed the Thrawn Trilogy, as it was really solid and lived up the source material IMO.
yeah, the prequels were so fucking good. i'm sure these will be just as good, or as you so aptly put it, awsome.
It was ruined for me at the point where Kirk losing command of his ship was treated like a teenager losing the keys to the family car but them having then handed back to him a few minutes later so they could to go to store and buy some milk.
