Welp, I guess that means another hum drum star wars table.

It's kind of a shame...there's simply so much material that can be drawn from the star wars universe in order to make a completely mind-blowing theme. There's no reason that a new SW theme shouldn't be awesome.

Yeah, I'm probably thinking too far ahead about what might or might not happen. But I can't say there are too many Stern games made in the past 10 years that I really enjoy playing enough to consider buying them.

Before I saw The Hobbit, I would've said the same thing about JJP doing it. But now...I'm not so sure.

SW is still very much alive--the original movies are sci-fi classics. The newer trilogy, well, is lacking in some respects.

Personally, I'd welcome a pin for the original trilogy if it were done well.

If falls short mainly in the execution of the story-telling elements. Wooden performances, clunky dialog, over-reliance on CGI, annoying and unrelatable characters (Jar-Jar and a whiny main character), plot holes, character motivations that made no sense, and so on.

The original trilogy was about the rise and growth of a group of characters on a swashbuckling adventure to defeat evil doers. The prequel trilogy lost touch with that magic formula.

Not really--most of my comments were primarily from an objective, analytical perspective of the films as a whole. While I am still fond of the original trilogy, they were simply films that were better made, had a better story, and more likable characters--even though the prequel trilogy had the advantage of shiny baubles, bells, and whistles.

Bells and whistles aren't the story--they're the means to tell one. If you don't have a good story to begin with and interesting characters the audience can relate to, fancy special effects won't matter much.