# Best and worst prequels?

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**Created:** [August 8, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-prequels/630873 "2012-08-08T15:59:02Z")\
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**Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me** was a pretty lousy prequel, though not on the level of **Phantom Menace**.

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_Peter and the Starcatchers_ by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (2004) is an amusing prequel to James Barrie’s _Peter Pan_, IMHO.

But I echo **CalMeacham** ’s comments about Horatio Hornblower. The earliest books about the young Hornblower are so much better than the first-written books.

I don’t know if these quite count, but “The Gloria Scott” and “The Musgrave Ritual” are Holmes telling Watson about his earlier cases, before they met.

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**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-prequels/630873/43 "2012-08-10T13:50:59Z")

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> [@Rucksinator](#):
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> Which one was that? There was one called _THE Final Destination_, but I’m not sure if it ended up actually be the last (kinda like how there were a few “Final” Friday the 13th’s.)

_The Final Destination_ \<shudder\> was the fourth one, followed by _Final Destination 5_, which was awesome.

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