# What made the original Star Wars trilogy great? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-made-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-great/610116 "2012-01-20T07:31:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-made-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-great/610116/201 "2012-01-26T19:42:42Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > But the original trilogy did exactly the same thing. Either that or my copies are missing scenes where they explain what the Clone Wars were all about. However the offhand mentions in ANH were not essential to understand to make sense of the film, Obi said he fought in them and Luke was impressed. I never saw a person complain or ask WTF was it? I actually saw reviewers complain that they did not know what a sith was or why they wanted revenge, also what did Yoda mean about if they found one the master is still out there? Would it have killed them to have Quigon tell Obi about the backstory? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-made-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-great/610116/202 "2012-01-26T20:19:28Z")
I guess it might have been interesting if someone had looked over Sully’s contract and said “You agreed to _this_? You had them over a barrel - they’d already spent $100 million creating the avatar for your brother - you could have easily demanded $10 million _and_ your spinal surgery and they’d have had to pay it. Instead you took a measly consulting contract. What are you, some kinda moron?” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-made-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-great/610116/203 "2012-01-26T22:10:46Z")
How did this turn into an _Avatar_ thread? It’s bad enough that the damn movie exists at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-made-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-great/610116.md?page=10)