While promoting the newly released Dark Forces Remaster – which we’ll be discussing further on the site soon, and chatted about on last weeks Making Tracks – Brian Herring was asked about his feelings on the sequel trilogy, and as you can hear in his chat on Gamereactor, he reminds us that the reactions to the prequel trilogy – nowadays infinitely better regarded than they ever were a quarter of a century ago – were hardly stellar, and that time is often kind to the previous generations Star Wars adventures.
“I think the sequels are no more polarising than the prequels were when they came out. All the people who are upset about the sequels are too young to remember how upset the people when the original ones came out were, except they now have the internet. If the internet had been around to the extent it was around when the prequels came out, you’d have seen exactly the same stuff play out.
“And I think in 10 years’ time, you’re going to see what you’re seeing with the sequels, because the sequels have a huge fan base and I meet them all the time, but they’re all much younger than the people complaining on the internet about how much they didn’t like. It’s perfectly fine, if you don’t like them, you don’t like them. Everything’s not for everyone. And I just think that these things are all generational and I think Battlestar Galactica said it best, ‘this has all happened before, it will all happen again.'”
We touch upon a similar subject on episode 253 of Making Tracks, which will land on Fantha Tracks Radio over the weekend.
