Hello and welcome to this premium video. Thank you for joining us. I am Harry, your host,

joined today by Luca. Hello there. And the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Dr. Nima Parvini.

Thank you very much for joining us today. And we're going to be talking about the Star Wars

Prequel trilogy and the reassessment and re-evaluation

of the film's quality that's been going on over the past few years, the discourse leading

up to that, and just generally the overall quality of them.

And I think all three of us are going to be in agreement that these films have been unfairly maligned. The

criticism that was applied to them early on when they had been released and in the early

years of internet discourse was bad faith and very unfair. And actually when you reevaluate

them and watch them with a more objective eye today, they not only hold up much better than

you expect, but there are many arguments to be made that these are fantastic films. And just to

give a little backstory for this, so over the past few weeks, I just decided over the Christmas

period to rewatch the full Star Wars films, and I decided to do them as you are supposed to do, as George Lucas intended, which is to watch them in episode order, episodes 1 through 6.

And I went through a phase when I was a teenager, as many did, of having watched the Plinket reviews

around the time that they came out. My friends recommended that I watched them, and I was a stupid,

impressionable teenager, and had been told by all of them that they're really great film reviews,

they're great critiques, they'll make you see the films in a whole different light,

and because of the way that the reviews different light, and because of the way that the films were, the reviews were presented, and because of the way that it was a new form of criticism that I'd not seen online before, I went along with it.

But it's been so many years removed from it now that I thought, I'll give them another fair chance and not only did I go into

them and find that I really enjoyed them I found that I enjoyed the prequels more than the

originals I agree with this yeah I genuinely appreciated them more than the originals both in

terms of their construction, in terms of the

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