![]() ![]() The story of serial killer Norman Bates in the years before his life murderously intersected with Marion Crane in Psycho isn’t inherently interesting, unless you’re super into hotel management. To be sure, Bates Motel has suffered its own prequel problems in the past. Bates Motel uses that tension to drive empathy for both him and his mother. And most prequels could stand to learn something from A&E’s Bates Motel, a Psycho prequel that has kicked off its fifth and final season in style. Yet prequels are still being made, because hey, slap the words “Star Wars” on something, and people will go see it. As a character, he’s not particularly interesting. The only reason to follow Anakin is that you know what’s going to happen to him. Even harder to escape is the thought that the story only makes sense within the context of the later story’s ending. The ending is already known.īut that isn’t even the most challenging aspect of a prequel. When your story exists solely because another, more famous story made somebody somewhere think, “Hey, I wonder what happened before?” you’re trapped. This, in a nutshell, is the problem with prequels. They’re extensions of another story that can’t really stand on their own and the idea that director George Lucas believes the Star Wars films should be watched in chronological order, rather than in the order of their release dates, is weird and maddening. The answer, as it turns out, is, “Not much.” All three movies really only make sense if you know that Anakin Skywalker eventually becomes the main villain from the original Star Wars trilogy. Club) would examine the films through a surprisingly robust lens: What are these movies about if you pretend the other Star Wars movies don’t exist? For 10 episodes at a time - yes, 30-some episodes about the Star Wars prequels - hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims (a friend and former co-worker of mine at the A.V. My favorite movie podcast, Blank Check, began its life as a series dedicated to dissecting the Star Wars prequels. The episode of the week for February 26 through March 4 is “The Convergence of the Twain,” the second episode of the fifth and final season of A&E’s Bates Motel. Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week.
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