What has always amazed me about Star Wars is that for a film series that was made out of order, it's amazing to see how a passing reference to something like "The Clone Wars" or "The Emperor" can come back years later and become such a huge part of the story. Like, audiences in 1977 had NO IDEA what "The Clone Wars" was, and now 40 years later it has a whole 7 seasons of television documenting it. Or even how that one random guy in the white uniform in the background of the conference room scene would be a prominent character in that show.
Congratulations on your engagement! I hope you two are happy together. This is by far the greatest trilogy to ever grace the silver screen. So many incredible practical affects, beautiful scenes, iconic characters, and some of the most quotable lines in history. Speaking of history, I loved learning more about it. You always teach me something new. Thank you for that, and doing these movies justice.
Bruh really thinks a trilogy with Across the Spider-Verse’s wonky ahh writing, sloppy editing, and BS ending will top a trilogy with Empire in the middle
“Jabba, you’re a wonderful human being.” Looking back, I always thought it was weird that Han would call Jabba human, but learning that he was originally human to start with… Mind. Blown. I think it’s safe to say that I don’t really like the Special Edition changes anymore 😅
„The original idea was that he’d be a monster. But then we couldn’t make him a monster, so we cast him as a human. I was going to superimpose or matte in a monster over the actor. […] If I had the money, I might have shot it anyway. If it still didn’t work, I’d probably have cut it out.“ - George Lucas, „Making of Return of the Jedi“
Sometimes I wonder if people know that stand-in actors (or objects) are a thing. Do some people think that green balls on a stick was the initial plan instead of dragons? There's quite a lot of misconceptions about how the OT came to be, like the myth that the editors "saved" A New Hope. Cheers from France! 🍻
Luke's plan in ROTJ was not to kill everyone. He gave Jabba plenty of opportunities to just give him what he wanted and if Jabba did not do it, he would kill him. He wants to go in and just get Han and get out but he does not go in guns blazing because that is not the Jedi way.
yeah i had to come to the comments after hearing that part. i’m def biased as rotj is my favourite star wars movie but like, did he even watch it? 😭 luke’s plan was not to kill everyone, that was literally just his worst-case scenario
Frank Oz does an amazing performance as Yoda, puppetry and voice. This old man with some spark still in him. He sounds like an elderly Grover and I love it.
In the book titled “The Princess, The Scoundrel, and The Farmboy” which is a retelling of “A New Hope” split up into three parts and each part is written from different viewpoints the first part of the book is is told from Leia’s point of view and we as readers “see” what she is going through as the Empire questions her about the Rebellion. In the second part of the book we see the story from Han Solo’s point of view and it’s in this section of the book we get an additional scene on the Millennium Falcon where we “see” Obi-Wan hand wave R2-D2 over to him and he says, and I quote, “It’s good to fly with you again old friend,” and that proves that he does remember R2 from all those years ago.
This book was released in 2015 after the prequels were released. The scene you describe would be to explain this particular plot inconsistency. At the time when the movie was released (1977) it was not planned that Obi-wan knew R2-D2.
I'll be honest. I never liked Star Wars as a kid. I thought it was overrated. It doesn't help Disney keeps milking the franchise nonstop. But this video has made me respect the original trilogy a lot more.
Personally, the Force ghost change is my favourite SE change. The ghost of Anakin was always meant to represent what a pre-corrupted version of Anakin looked like before he ended up in the suit. Before the prequels, Shaw filled in that role as we had no idea what a younger, pre-suit version of Anakin looked like. But then Christensen filled that role, so making him the new Force ghost just added for more narrative consistency.
And honestly the episode of Ahsoka with Anakin makes this so much more cool Not to mention, Anakin is quite literally a child of the force, and in my opinion is now embodying the role of The Father. The literal "living" embodiment of the balance of the force. He quite literally is the cosmic Force
No it doesn’t. The idea of him being a Force Ghost in the first place was supposed to represent the fact that he was decorrupted and turned to the light side again. That isn’t sold as well if you don’t get to see the older Anakin as a Jedi, chilling in Force Heaven. The younger Anakin almost implies that the “real Anakin” died on Mustafar, and that the guy Luke talked to wasn’t him. I also don’t really buy why Luke is so happy seeing him. Instead of seeing his father who he actually met and had a heart to heart to in the last moments of his life, he’s seeing… a guy he saw a photo of I guess. This is like if you saw the ghost of your grandpa, and he looked like he did in the 1950s, some dude you never met and barely recognize. It’s stupid. Not to mention that Hayden’s Force Ghost looks creepy as fuck. This change ruins the whole ending for me. Fills me with enough rage to turn me to the Dark Side.
Eh I’m iffy on it, I really liked that Luke was able to see his father in a similar form as when he took off his helmet. It felt right seeing him as an old man, young Anakin never truly seemed good. He murdered so many people, older Anakin really felt like he had changed and was able to see the damage he caused, and how much he was used. I much prefer seeing the original actors force ghost.
Something I've noticed throughout this trilogy is the colour of Luke's outfit changing colour. By Return of the Jedi it's all black hinting he may have turned to the dark side. But then in a later scene the outfit reveals white underneath. I wonder how many people noticed that.
It could also be interpreted as a change in Luke's growth as a person as his naivete is more shown as white and black being a much more uniform and strict color. At least that is what they said in the interviews.
The original plan for return of the jedi was that Luke would turn to the dark side, that's the man reason his clothes become more and more dark to reflect his descente into darkness
@Pal_D1R35T4 parodies sure. But the actual Darth Vader in canon going around being menacing because of his lack of emotion just going "Mwha ha ha!". That image is hilarious and just isn't Vader in my mind.
One thing I appreciate about the Original Trilogy are the use of miniatures, physical sets, and practical make-up and special effects. The over-worldly spaceships, locations, and alien races feel more tangible and ground the story. Obviously they couldn't use CGI back in the 70s and 80s when these movies were first made, but it's nice to see these films that pioneered these revolutionary special effects and production design choices still relevant in our pop culture at a time when it seems like almost every live action blockbuster is an animated movie with how much they overuse CGI. Modern Star Wars still films on practical sets and use makeup for the aliens the inhabit the galaxy, but Disney also loves to flex how "good" their CGI and other technological advancements are and it makes everything feel like a tech demo. Nothing looks or feels real and I'm not as immersed in the world and story being presented to me.
I’ll always take practical effects over cgi, even the crappiest practical effects look better than the crappiest cgi. The fact that the actors can really truly immerse themselves with the practical sets and creatures gives it that extra touch of reality.
Talking about the special editions, i'm honestly surprised the ever iconic Stormtrooper bumping his head on the door blooper wasn't mentioned. The fact it was so funny behind the scenes that they kept it in and then later on added an actual **bonk** SFX to go with it is hysterical. 😆 Rest in peace to Micheal Leader who played the clumsy trooper... you went down in Star Wars history good sir.
What made me appreciate Star Wars more as of recent were its inspiration from other works, mainly Flash Gordon and the other being the Lord of the Rings which is a series I started getting into. Some good examples of their similarities are: 1. Obi-Wan's character being more similar to Gandalf and that he's an old and experienced monk/wizard that has been through a lot, guiding the heroes throughout their adventure, sacrificing themselves for the heroes to progress and then coming back as a more powerful form to continuously guide the heroes: For Gandalf was his white OP form, and for Obi-Wan... a ghost lol. 2. The way the stories forces the heroes in giving them a drive on going on an adventure after their refusal. For Frodo, it was the Ring's evil power and that he's being hunted down, and for Luke is that his ordinary life comes to a close after his aunt and uncle were killed by the Empire. 3. The heroes were given a wound that would never fully heal. For Frodo, it was his stab wound by the Witch King's blade and for Luke, it was his hand amputated by Vader. I feel like without Lord of the Rings, Star Wars wouldn't have even existed and even if it were without LOTR, it would've been drastically different to the ones we have.
Correction: Vader dosent learn about luke in the emperor scene. Palpatine is learning about it now (hence why the special edition changed the line, so that’s more obvious), but Vader has always known and is hiding that he knew. He’s been hunting for the son of Skywalker the entire movie: in his first scene in the film when he identifies the rebel base he says “I’m sure Skywalker is with them”. Vader always knew he was looking for his son the entire film
One thing to note on in terms of the transition of the look of the visual effects of A New Hope and Empire Strikes back: When A New Hope was being made, the newly founded Industrial Light and Magic was a fledgling company at the time. When Principle Photography had ended in London, George found that ILM had only *four* shots completed, with only *six* months left to finish the effects, as for the majority of the time, ILM was developing the motion-control systems that would be used to film the miniatures with. ILM did prevail and get them done in time, however, and of course, the film won the Oscar for best visual effects that year. What is incredible is that in the span of *two* years, ILM went from a fledgling company to a company who could hold their own and create fantastic visuals, even pioneering certain aspects of visual effects, such as the use of motion-control cameras with stop-motion animation (something Aardman and Laika use in their films to do moving shots with stop-motion animated characters in them) A New Hope may have introduced ILM to the world at large, but I truly think that Empire Strikes Back was really the one that put them on the map as one of the best visual effects companies in the history of film.
1:16:20 when Christopher Lee didn't want Count Dooku to plead for his life because it wasn't in character for Dooku, so he just said nothing and looked scarred as hell that he was about to die. (I typed this paragraph before i listened to the rant about the line) Same goes here. The "saying nothing" worked, and got the point across of Vader's conflict. Especially since Vader doesn't normally say his true feelings. (Anakin showed his true feelings alot, but Vader kept them bottled up) The "nooooo" sounds like a kid when they want something to stop, instead of taking a deep breath, not thinking about it, and just doing it, like Vader normally does with everything else.
There is one big comparison between Luke and Avatar the Last Airbender's Aang. In Empire Strikes Back we see Luke abandon his training on Dagoba to help his friends, and he ends up losing his hand. In Book 2 of Avatar the Last Airbender Aang abandoned his chakra training with the Guru because he wasn't willing to let go of Katara. And he ended up getting killed by Azula's lightning in the season finale. Also, the final fight between Luke and Vader in Return of the Jedi was recreated for the video game turned film adaptation The Force Unleashed, where we as Starkiller face off against Vader on the first Death Star (the appearance of the second Death Star was even used as the basis for the first Death Star being under construction). After we defeat Vader we are given the choice of either killing him or battling the Emperor, which was the same scenario that Luke was in.
To give you an idea of just how evil Palpatine was, in Legends, when the first Death Star blew up, he had the architect killed in one of the cruelest ways possible, then revived in a clone body, with the cycle repeated if progress on the second Death Star slowed down at all.
One of the best cases storytelling in A New Hope is Luke's T-16 Skyhopper. It's in the background when he is playing with a model version of it then during the briefing on the attack on the Death Star Luke says he used to bullseye womprats in the that ship. So small, but so crucial. Details like this are absent in the Sequel Trilogy.
I believe until after production started, the plan was for Obi-Wan to not die and travel to Yavin and be the general that briefs the pilots and commands from the ground (Dodonna in the final film) but Marcia Lucas convinced George Lucas that it was more powerful for him to die at the 2nd act turning point because he'd be quite passive in act 3. This might be why the Rebel base comes out of nowhere a bit- Obi-Wan was meant to guide us through it.
Lore-wise, I believe the Rebellion was indeed trying to recruit Kenobi. That would make his death a pretty big blow to the Rebellion, even if they're already loosing. Considering he was a general in the Clone Wars, he would have definitely been a threat to the Empire
While the idea of obi wan living seems like a good idea, as he stated in this video, George was not sure if there would even BE a sequel. So he took a lot of inspiration from the hero's journey and decided to kill Kenobi, fulfilling the mentor's role as they are not going to be around forever. Yes, Yoda was created to help fulfill the same role only due to the choice made for Star Wars. If you want, Joseph Campbell wrote an amazing book on this matter.
@@jaylenware363 would be nice to see an alternate og trilogy where Obi-Wan joins the rebellion with luke as his apprentice after the first death star destruction, would be interesting to see old friends, master and apprentice, on opposite sides on the battlefield. Star wars definitely needs a what if series like the avengers have
@@Kristof-cl4df Fosho, although there are some old Legends-era comics that covered what-ifs for the original trilogy called Star Wars: Infinities (and to a lesser, questionable extent, Star Wars: Visionaries and Star Wars Tales [1999]). Infinities in particular tackles what if Luke failed to destroy the Death Star in ANH, what if Han didn't save Luke from freezing in ESB (dark, I know), and what if Leia blew up Jabba's palace in ROTJ. I do wish they delved deeper into the alternate possibilities. They only explore each OT movie once, they hardley scratched the surface imo
The Unlucky Tug having his channel also being a non-Thomas/Tugs one is so much fascinating and brighter and doing a Star Wars video is a great example of it.
@@jordandutra9029 Exactly. Glad to see him expand his roots of his other tastes on other franchises. I'd also like to see him cover the Potter films as well.
It’s nice that you’re branching off to do these videos. I’ve always loved Star Wars ever since I was very young, and I think I am one of the few people who actually likes the prequels. Anyone else here who likes them?
I've only really known Star Wars and how it goes as an outsider to the fandom and through the Lego games or Family Guy parodies so this has mostly been new ground for me. It's so easy to see now how it became such an icon! Congratulations on your engagement as well! Wishing you both all the best 😁
I was never a Star Wars fan as a kid but this video now made me watch the original trilogy. I just finished watching Return of the Jedi on Sunday and I loved the movies, I may watch the rest soon.
Again congratulations on your engagement, Tug! While I'm not exactly a huge Star Wars nerd, I do respect the franchise and it's impact on pop culture. It's really fun hearing you talk about other media from time to time, and I enjoyed this first talking about the original trilogy. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the prequels and the sequels when you eventually get to them. Have a good one, dude! 👍❤️
Cool for respecting it even if you're not that into it. A bunch of my school friends say they hate Star Wars yet I doubt they've actually watched anything from it. Were all 15 though, so that mentality they have might snap out of them soon.
Your voice for reviewing and explaining other franchises is stellar. I started watching your videos because of thomas but I welcome other franchises being reviewed. Empire strikes back is my favourite star wars movie period, I didnt like it when I watched it as a 10 year old, given that I watched it after the action packed prequel, but now I appreciate it much more.
The branching out really is great! I loved hearing you talk about Cars content I’ve never watched, The Incredibles, and now some Star Wars. Whatever you talk about it’s gonna be great!
The dialogue between Luke and Palpatine's "Your over confidence is your weakness", "your faith in your friends is yours" shows that both are right. Palpatine's cockiness thinking everything is according to plan is what made him blind to any threat creeping behind his back, while Luke's worry of his friends at Cloud City which forces him to leave his training is what made him weak during his first confrontation with Vader. But what I find interesting is that Luke proves Palpatine wrong by showing him that being surrounded by his friends is what made Luke strong and Palpatine's assertion of dominance with no one truly there with him is what made him weak.
Tommy choo choo and Star Wars were some of my favorite things as a kid. I found your channel when I got back into Thomas after stopping at season 13, this video really reminds why I loved these films as a kid, and I want to re-watch the first six Star Wars films now, after Disney made me really despise this franchise. I'm one of the two guys who likes Episode 1 and 3 so it'll be interesting to hear your opinions when we get to the prequels.
Finally found time to watch this video. It goes without saying that The Original Trilogy of Star Wars is the most loved of the series. New Hope: A fantastic introduction to the world of Star Wars. Empire Strikes Back: The phenomenal sequel that changed the direction of the series forever. Return of the Jedi: The clunkiest of the trio that makes up for it with wonderful finale to this amazing story. After watching this review I want to watch the Original Trilogy once again. I envy my friend who has never seen the movies and gets to experience them for the first time. And congratulations to you Nic for your engagement. I wish only the best for you and your finance.
Apparently, the reason why the movie changed the Wookies to the Ewoks is because George Lucas wants the empire to go face to face with more primitive creatures, as wookies are seen as technological
@@GothRailfanGeorge actually found him to be really funny and kind of pushed for jar jar to be there. George made so many mistakes with the prequel trilogy. It really felt like there was no one to rein him in and tell him no, everyone was a yes man to him.
I love that Tug watched these films with his fiancee and had so many fond stories to speak of her reactions, I'm really happy for their engagement. A New Hope is the perfect film to me, and while I've never delved into Star Wars before my original and re-edit watches through the trilogy, I can confidently say that this campy, unaltered, tightly written space opera can never be matched in its sublime quality. I'd say it's my favorite, though I still consider Empire the objective best and Jedi a decent conclusion. My ranking would ironically be the chronological order, though they're all around the same mark between 9/10 or 10/10.
I just started with the Star Wars franchise thanks to this video, thanks for reviving my childhood with Thomas, and getting me around with Star Wars now.
Ok- to provide an explanation as to why Ford’s acting in ROTJ wasn’t as energetic as it was in Empire and New Hope, was because before filming started for ROTJ, he was busy acting for Raiders of the Lost Ark, so after filming wrapped for that movie, he was instantly assigned to ROTJ, so that is why his acting wasn’t as energetic as it was before.
I'll have to admit I've never watched much of the Star Wars movies or anything related to it besides maybe something with friends, but I love your commentary about this! I can definitely understand a lot of the love for this franchise, looking forward to more videos talking about this!
Fun Fact about many of the British actors in Star Wars is that many appeared in Doctor Who either before or after the original trilogy, Michael Sheard (Admiral Ozzel) was a regular to Who and would be filming 5th Doctor Peter Davison's first story, "Castrovalva" a year after the release of "Empire", Cy Town was well known as a Dalek Operator, Don Henderson (General Tagge) was alongside Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford in "Delta and the Bannermen", Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett), Garrick Hagon (Biggs Darklighter) and even Vader himself Dave Prowse appeared alongside 3rd Doctor Jon Pertwee in different episodes, Julian Glover (General Veers) appeared alongside 4th Doctor Tom Baker in one of the best loved stories of the tenure "City of Death", but the biggie is Peter Cushing (Governor Tarkin) who played a human version of the Doctor in the 1960's Dalek films. Even in the prequel content you get names like his royal bombasticness Brian Blessed who appeared alongside Colin Baker in the 14 part epic "Trial of a Time Lord", or 10th Doctor David Tennant appearing in "The Clone Wars" series.
Woohoo! This is the moment that most of us has been waiting for, this part 1 video was awesome, marvelous work on the first part of this documentary, can’t wait see how part 2 turned out. 😁👍 Oh and congrats on your engagement dude. 😎
I just finished watching these first 3 films and watching this video afterwards really helps me appreciate these films so much more, and the development history is something I find fascinating. I really hope the next part of this review series comes soon, maybe by then I'll have seen the prequels which bring us Jar Jar Binks, the best Star Wars character ever.
Palpatine is, IMO, the greatest villain in all of cinema. The scope of his plan, the effectiveness of his plan, his power, his puppet mastery, and the wonderful portrayal (ESPECIALLY in the prequels) by Ian McDiarmid, for me, comprise a villain that has never been topped on screen.
My girlfriend had never seen Star Wars so I showed her the original and prequel trilogies. She was somewhat indifferent to them, but I also got to see them in a whole new light. I grew up when the prequels came out and despite how goofy they are I see the great aspects of it and still like them. My friends my age also love the series and we often have discussions about our thoughts on it. One friend and I had a 2 hour conversation about Star Wars on a long drive recently and just reminisced on this series we grew up with. I’m really looking forward to this video, keep it up 👍🏻.
I think the prequels are to Star Wars what the HiT era is to Thomas: something that was hated when it first came out but is now respected because of something even more despised (sequals/BWBA)
Han Solo is my favourite character from these movies. Harrison Ford played him to perfection every time. Even in force awakens, he just brings an a game performance. But his first one is my favourite performance of his.
My opinion to every movie in the trilogy: A New Hope: A masterpiece The Empire Strikes Back: A masterpiece Return of the Jedi: A masterpiece. And congrats on your engagement! Can't wait to hear you talk about the prequels.
Never thought I’d see the day you’d review the Star Wars movies! Been a fan of the franchise for nearly 5 years, and I find myself agreeing most of your analysis on the OT, you’ve brought up some pretty interesting points as well. I really liked to see Alec Guiness getting some recognition as well as everyone else, despite the fact that his views on SW are somewhat controversial, he played Obi-Wan perfectly. And as for Anakin becoming a Force ghost, well, there is a novel from the old canon (the one before the 2014 reboot) which explains that Obi-Wan’s ghost taught Anakin on the fly when the latter was about to die, and surprisingly he did learn it pretty fast and managed to become one just in time, although I do agree that this kinda ruins your idea of not overthinking this scene, lol. Overall, if you actually read this pretty good rant and rankings, sad to see Jedi at the bottom, but your points throughout this video make a lot sense indeed, and props to all of your work, be it Thomas-related or if anything else. Also, I know that you said you’d not want to cover any of the series, but there’s a 2D-animated one about the Clone Wars (not the 3D one from 2008) that is actually pretty short (the full length of the entire series is about the same of one of the movies), but covers the timeframe between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, so if you somehow end up reading this Tug, I’d recommend you to check it out.
As someone who only really saw the original trilogy once each, I really enjoyed this retrospective on the films. I did Subscribe mostly for the Thomas stuff, I enjoyed the Cars video, but I think I can get behind on watching all the Star Wars videos as well. Just goes to show that an entertaining person can make any topic fun.
Enjoyed this video so much! Can't wait for the next part. I would love it if Tug made a ranking video for the original trilogy of Indiana Jones. Boy, that would be something.
Again, congratulations on your engagement. I can understand your 1st problem with a new Hope about Leia having the tracked Falcon take the Death Star to Yavin. I didn’t get it either. Then I watched Carrie Fisher’s audition in which the script she’s given explains why she’s leading the empire to the rebel base. Hiding is pointless, the Death Star will destroy every planet until they get to the rebels and the only hope at the moment is to lead the empire’s weapon to them so they can use the data they have secured to beat the empire immediately. Putting the rebellion on the front line to save the rest of the galaxy from the empire’s wrath based on faith in their abilities is damn bold
22:17 His name is Vanden Willard. 27:27 It's called a Ronto. The breathing pod is Vader's meditation chamber. 53:26 The bounty hunter Leia is disguised as is named Boussh. Jedi can change their appearance as a force spirit. And the Clone Wars explains that you must go through many trials in order to become a force ghost. 1:16:09 That's Sy Snoodles.
But for a akin it’s pretty weird because he would have to speed run the trials or what happened to Ashoka when she almost dies and ended up in some world between worlds like place and had her final lesson from anakin maybe the same happened to anakin and he just speedran the trials this could explain how quickly anakin became a force ghost possibly hours after his death and the book “from a certain point of view” actually could prove this because it says that obiwan reached out to anakin as he was dying could have just told anakin a way he could see his children again but not physically.
One of my favorite things about the original film is that George cast the actors who played Dr. Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster as Tarkin and Vader respectively. Such a funny easter egg.
I think I have an idea of how Anakin learned to be a force ghost, Qui-Gon learned to do it when he was dead and when Anakin died Qui-gon was in the place where good people die and told Anakin how to do it, maybe the other jedi didn't show up because Luke doesn't know them and only the ones he knows came to help and make him happy in the celebration.
One of my cousins really loves this franchise, and seeing this video makes me think about her. I like the franchise (in secret, XD), and I can't wait for part 2. May the Force be with you, Tug.
Congrats on your engagement! I remember watching a New Hope fully for the first time and got chills watching the ending climatic battle on the death star. I also find it fascinating about the original script for the last jedu which was originally titled "Revenge of the Jedi," I know you can purchase a replica poster for it online. I just find it fascinating how that film was originally supposed to be.
As a HUGE sw nut this was a great and fair review. I had one or two differences in opinions but all in all I'm glad someone else has such a passion for the original trilogy as I do. Growing up in the nineties, I always looked up to Luke Skywalker and the prequels hadn't even been teased yet, so I thought that being a Jedi was the ultimate goal as a kid. I have nothing but love for them, flaws and all.
For me, this trilogy is the perfect mixture of a creator's vision and an audience pleaser. As you said, Lucas had a team to keep him in check and reel in ideas that just didn't work. Compare this to the other two trilogies. For the prequels, he had too much control and, while he had an interesting idea on paper, it wasn't presented in the best light. With the sequels, he had little to no say in those films, which shows as the movies either didn't deviate from the story beats of the Original Trilogy or, if they do, it comes at the expense of legacy characters (i.e., Luke and Han) or previously established plot points (i.e., Rey's backstory).
I dont have social media, so super congratulations to you and your fiance. I hope you and her live a happy life. I also love seeing more non-Thomas content on this kick-ass channel. It adds variety and can increase viewership. You obviously love your fans so keep up the amazing work.
Great video tug! I have to say-I actually and the shock of finding out Vader was Luke’s father from the film a few years back. I am now 16, but watched the movie for the first time at 8 years old, and had never interacted with the franchise before. I wasn’t previously interested. The reveal absolutely melted my mind. I’ll never forget, my mom let me watch the movie so long as I promised to do my math homework as soon as it was done. I remember clearly I was unable to focus on math, and rushed through it to watch the next movie. I’m pretty sure I failed that assignment. 😅 Somehow I managed to avoid that massive pop culture shock, but I was pretty closed off from mainstream media as a kid, and wasn’t he rally interested in most franchises. But, the plot twist has nothing on the villain plot twist of The Incredibles 2. 😂
The people who get like, irrationally angry, about the Disney era star wars stuff worry me. Like, Disney made me lose interest in Star Wars, sure as well, sure, most of their Star Wars shows and movies have been, at best mediocre to at worst, sort of dumpster fires, and I understand feeling frustrated . . . I don't understand the raw incandescent hatred though.
Lovely video. I enjoyed your Incredibles video and this was an excellent coverage of the trilogy. Just watching it rekindled my lost love of the OT that’s been diluted by mid Disney content as of late. So hyped for Part 2!!!
I can't wait for your ranking on the prequel trilogy because I want to hear your honest opinion on Revenge of the Sith. It is my favorite Star Wars movie out of all of them because: 1. It is the culmination of Palpatine's Grand Sith Plan and the Galactic Empire. 2. Order 66 is the reason why we see few Jedi in the original trilogy. 3. How Anakin fully embraced the Dark Side of the Force and became Darth Vader. 4. Great lightsaber duels, such as Anakin vs. Obi Wan and Yoda vs. Palpatine. 5. Demonstrates how cunning Palpatine really was. However, I think you should also do a review on both the 2008 Star Wars: the Clone Wars TV series and Star Wars: Rebels because they are both really good TV shows.
A New Hope is great as an example of how much a team brings to a film. Alongside all the pointless hockey fluff that was trimmed with Luke's friends and stuff, the actual performances really do so much to elevate the script. There's some lines that sound like absolute nonsense word mush if you sit and look at what is actually being said - but the performances are so good that you don't notice. Such a great movie. Really enjoyed this vid! Looking forward to seeing what you have to say on the Prequels - Attack of the Clones especially :)
Congrats on the engagement, it only gets better and better from here! Im glad you're finding success with branching out and making videos you're interested in making. It helps that they are very well produced just like all your videos. I've gotten back into Thomas now that I have a 7 month old son and your videos are the best on the platform.
Damn, from my childhood (Thomas) all the way to my favourite movie franchise (Star Wars). I surprised to be sure but a welcome one. Absolutely love your rereviews and retrospective videos. I’ve been looking to this and can’t wait till we get to the prequels. May the force be with you , always Unluckytugs.
I think you have a great eye for reviewing stuff in an intelligent and thoughtful manner - hell I even watched all your reviews of things I haven't watched, including the ones of all the Cars movies! I'd love to see you rank and review more stuff now that Thomas has pretty much been sewed up. have you watched any of Rob Ager's stuff on Collative Learning? he does some great Star Wars analysis of themes and motifs in the films
I don’t even like Star Wars, or at least wasn’t interested, but thanks to Tug I get why people like this franchise. Tug made me see the light about star wars and for that, thank you.
My explanation for the Anakin ghost scene is that when we see Anakin in the theatrical cut, that's how Luke sees him, but when Hayden appears in the special cut, that's the pov of Obi-Wan and Yoda. Idc if there's some book from 2004 explaining that there's actually a rift in space-time because of Anakins death or something just shut up
When Tug says "okay rant time" its like hearing "it's morphin time" he's about to throwdown 😂. Congrats on the engagement, wishing you both the best 🙏😊
I know it’s a lot to watch but Clone Wars and Rebels are both amazing shows. Clone wars has its duds but I highly recommend it because of its characters and animation(the show definitely peaks when they focus on the clones) and Rebels used it’s low budget to tell some amazing stories. I know you’re probably busy with you’re engagement but if you ever get a chance, the animated shows are amazing
Though I've never been a fan of the series, only knowing it through parodies, the lego games, and what my brother told me, I still found this really interesting. I honestly like how simple the first movie is. I kinda wish more modern things were like that. No grand plotlines or twists, just a simple heroic story.
well done, and you're the first person i've come across who feels pretty much exactly the same way i do about the change in force ghost heads at the end of Jedi, i wrote this just a few weeks before seeing your video: there's many ways to look at this, including the fact that George made the decision himself & it's really up to him...but something most people seem to miss, or dismiss, is that these 3 Force ghosts, were there FOR LUKE TO SEE! Luke would not recognize young Hayden Christensen Anakin, but he would recognize the face of his father who he had just unmasked, after Anakin redeemed himself (thru his son's faith & love.) It's reasonable that Anakin would physically age, even inside the Vader helmet. &, it's maybe less reasonable that as a Force ghost he would look all nice & healthy with full set of hair etc. - but that's permissible for aesthetics, & also representative of him regaining his humanity. lastly, Hayden Force ghost Anakin kind of negates the huge meaning of Anakin's redemption when it actually happened. considering all this, it really seems the only viable reason was to make it "less confusing" for younger audiences who saw the prequels first, which is one reason George did it (but, even that is flawed because again, you clearly see his face just moments before, & everything else is the same between the 2 force ghosts, the Jedi robe, etc.)
The Vader "no" special edition change Return of the Jedi was a change made because every Star Wars movie had a scene with someone shouting "no", and Lucas thought Return of the Jedi being the only one to not have one would be weird, since it would be an odd exception to his motif of Star Wars rhyming/repeating in a manner similar to poetry.
Congratulations on your engagement Tug! Really looking forward to this series, love me some Stars Wars content. Would recommend watching The Clone Wars (even in your own time, not for a video), it adds a lot of great context for the period between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, which has some great arcs and adds a lot to fan favourite characters (Ahsoka and Captain Rex in particular benefit massively from the show). It is a bit of a commitment with there being seven seasons to watch, but it's arguably the peak of Star Wars (at least to me)
12:56 Sorry to be that guy, Chewbacca was never intended to speak English. Ben Burtt said it himself. And that video is just a fun BTS fact, that Peter Mayhew spoke in English just so Harrison Ford and the rest had a better understanding of the tone of the scene, kind of like what they do nowadays with CGI characters, where on set the stunts for said characters have a photo of the face of said character so that the actors know where to look.
What has always amazed me about Star Wars is that for a film series that was made out of order, it's amazing to see how a passing reference to something like "The Clone Wars" or "The Emperor" can come back years later and become such a huge part of the story. Like, audiences in 1977 had NO IDEA what "The Clone Wars" was, and now 40 years later it has a whole 7 seasons of television documenting it. Or even how that one random guy in the white uniform in the background of the conference room scene would be a prominent character in that show.
And a sequel series which is now getting its own sequel
the clone wars line was edited in post release of episode 2 attack of the clones. george did that often, remastering the star wars movies.
sequel series is trash so no one gives a rats ass.@@caledonianrailway1233
Thomas in sodor dark realm should have a Darth Vader like arc
@@HelminthCombosNo it wasn't? George did add lots of stuff, but that was there since the beginning.
Congratulations on your engagement! I hope you two are happy together.
This is by far the greatest trilogy to ever grace the silver screen. So many incredible practical affects, beautiful scenes, iconic characters, and some of the most quotable lines in history. Speaking of history, I loved learning more about it. You always teach me something new. Thank you for that, and doing these movies justice.
Tbh I will say that the Spider-Verse might possibly top this amazing trilogy
Bruh really thinks a trilogy with Across the Spider-Verse’s wonky ahh writing, sloppy editing, and BS ending will top a trilogy with Empire in the middle
@@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho yes, and they’re right
@@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho???
The Lord of the Rings??
There was Thomas, then TUGS, then Cars and the World of Pixar. Now... George Lucas' Star Wars franchise.
Imagine him even doing Harry Potter too, well outside of Olton Hall of course.
@@TheLazyFusspot_3428 Or Lord of the Rings
@@dhivaansalig6398 Yep, that too. He mentioned it in his Edward spotlight video.
How about Star Trek there’s Thirteen of them
@@TheLazyFusspot_3428 Exactly, he mentioned it there, that could be another franchise he can touch on
“Jabba, you’re a wonderful human being.”
Looking back, I always thought it was weird that Han would call Jabba human, but learning that he was originally human to start with… Mind. Blown.
I think it’s safe to say that I don’t really like the Special Edition changes anymore 😅
I always laugh at that because of how proud Jabba is of being a hutt, so Han knew it was a backhanded compliment
Considering how much of a smart ass Han is, him calling Jabba a "wonderful human being" seems appropriate for his personality!
It shocked me that Jabba was a real human at first!
„The original idea was that he’d be a monster. But then we couldn’t make him a monster, so we cast him as a human. I was going to
superimpose or matte in a monster over the actor. […] If I had the money, I might have shot it anyway. If it still didn’t work, I’d probably have cut it out.“
- George Lucas, „Making of Return of the Jedi“
Sometimes I wonder if people know that stand-in actors (or objects) are a thing.
Do some people think that green balls on a stick was the initial plan instead of dragons?
There's quite a lot of misconceptions about how the OT came to be, like the myth that the editors "saved" A New Hope.
Cheers from France! 🍻
Luke's plan in ROTJ was not to kill everyone.
He gave Jabba plenty of opportunities to just give him what he wanted and if Jabba did not do it, he would kill him. He wants to go in and just get Han and get out but he does not go in guns blazing because that is not the Jedi way.
yeah i had to come to the comments after hearing that part. i’m def biased as rotj is my favourite star wars movie but like, did he even watch it? 😭 luke’s plan was not to kill everyone, that was literally just his worst-case scenario
Frank Oz does an amazing performance as Yoda, puppetry and voice. This old man with some spark still in him. He sounds like an elderly Grover and I love it.
Tug truly does know the power of the dark side, it’s a breath of fresh air to see him do non-Thomas content.
Nope
@@Phillipdanchell Stop spamming
@@fanofeverything30465 spamming what?
@@Phillipdanchell That you don't like Tug doing non-Thomas content
@@fanofeverything30465 i Said it once. But i found Out that it isn’t that bad..
Despite Return of the Jedi’s faults, it was a perfect conclusion. I would be totally fine if the entire series ended there.
It does end there... Unless we're talking about the EU.
@@GothRailfan Or the sequel trilogy that never happened, and defiantly does not exist.
@@theultimateyoda7564 There's no sequel trilogy in Ba Sing Se.
It did end there, I'm glad there were no sequels whatsoever
In the book titled “The Princess, The Scoundrel, and The Farmboy” which is a retelling of “A New Hope” split up into three parts and each part is written from different viewpoints the first part of the book is is told from Leia’s point of view and we as readers “see” what she is going through as the Empire questions her about the Rebellion. In the second part of the book we see the story from Han Solo’s point of view and it’s in this section of the book we get an additional scene on the Millennium Falcon where we “see” Obi-Wan hand wave R2-D2 over to him and he says, and I quote, “It’s good to fly with you again old friend,” and that proves that he does remember R2 from all those years ago.
That's not in the movie, though 😭 An audience member seeing the movie for the first time would have no reason to know this
This book was released in 2015 after the prequels were released. The scene you describe would be to explain this particular plot inconsistency. At the time when the movie was released (1977) it was not planned that Obi-wan knew R2-D2.
I'll be honest. I never liked Star Wars as a kid. I thought it was overrated. It doesn't help Disney keeps milking the franchise nonstop. But this video has made me respect the original trilogy a lot more.
Personally, the Force ghost change is my favourite SE change.
The ghost of Anakin was always meant to represent what a pre-corrupted version of Anakin looked like before he ended up in the suit.
Before the prequels, Shaw filled in that role as we had no idea what a younger, pre-suit version of Anakin looked like. But then Christensen filled that role, so making him the new Force ghost just added for more narrative consistency.
Yea, Anakin being young as a Force ghost makes sense as him being young was the last time he was fully able-bodied before burning on Mustafar.
And honestly the episode of Ahsoka with Anakin makes this so much more cool
Not to mention, Anakin is quite literally a child of the force, and in my opinion is now embodying the role of The Father.
The literal "living" embodiment of the balance of the force. He quite literally is the cosmic Force
Personally, I agree. I'm actually okay with the Force Ghost change. However, the worst special edition change for me is at 1:16:18
No it doesn’t. The idea of him being a Force Ghost in the first place was supposed to represent the fact that he was decorrupted and turned to the light side again. That isn’t sold as well if you don’t get to see the older Anakin as a Jedi, chilling in Force Heaven. The younger Anakin almost implies that the “real Anakin” died on Mustafar, and that the guy Luke talked to wasn’t him. I also don’t really buy why Luke is so happy seeing him. Instead of seeing his father who he actually met and had a heart to heart to in the last moments of his life, he’s seeing… a guy he saw a photo of I guess. This is like if you saw the ghost of your grandpa, and he looked like he did in the 1950s, some dude you never met and barely recognize. It’s stupid. Not to mention that Hayden’s Force Ghost looks creepy as fuck.
This change ruins the whole ending for me. Fills me with enough rage to turn me to the Dark Side.
Eh I’m iffy on it, I really liked that Luke was able to see his father in a similar form as when he took off his helmet. It felt right seeing him as an old man, young Anakin never truly seemed good. He murdered so many people, older Anakin really felt like he had changed and was able to see the damage he caused, and how much he was used. I much prefer seeing the original actors force ghost.
Something I've noticed throughout this trilogy is the colour of Luke's outfit changing colour. By Return of the Jedi it's all black hinting he may have turned to the dark side. But then in a later scene the outfit reveals white underneath. I wonder how many people noticed that.
It could also be interpreted as a change in Luke's growth as a person as his naivete is more shown as white and black being a much more uniform and strict color. At least that is what they said in the interviews.
I never noticed that
The original plan for return of the jedi was that Luke would turn to the dark side, that's the man reason his clothes become more and more dark to reflect his descente into darkness
One funny little fact is that the first time Hamill wore the grey ESB jumpsuit was for his cameo on The Muppets.
Many people, many people indeed..
One of my favorite parts about the original script of Empire is that there was a scene where Vader did an evil laugh!
Can you imagine that?
That in someway exist, in the Angry Birds Star Wars Game
@Pal_D1R35T4 parodies sure. But the actual Darth Vader in canon going around being menacing because of his lack of emotion just going "Mwha ha ha!".
That image is hilarious and just isn't Vader in my mind.
And that he originally had pet gargoyles
@@KaminoKatie Like a James Bond villain
@@KaminoKatie Pet gargoyles? What?
One thing I appreciate about the Original Trilogy are the use of miniatures, physical sets, and practical make-up and special effects. The over-worldly spaceships, locations, and alien races feel more tangible and ground the story. Obviously they couldn't use CGI back in the 70s and 80s when these movies were first made, but it's nice to see these films that pioneered these revolutionary special effects and production design choices still relevant in our pop culture at a time when it seems like almost every live action blockbuster is an animated movie with how much they overuse CGI. Modern Star Wars still films on practical sets and use makeup for the aliens the inhabit the galaxy, but Disney also loves to flex how "good" their CGI and other technological advancements are and it makes everything feel like a tech demo. Nothing looks or feels real and I'm not as immersed in the world and story being presented to me.
I’ll always take practical effects over cgi, even the crappiest practical effects look better than the crappiest cgi. The fact that the actors can really truly immerse themselves with the practical sets and creatures gives it that extra touch of reality.
I love the practical effects and cgi of the Prequels a along with The Originals as it gives a sense of fantasy
Talking about the special editions, i'm honestly surprised the ever iconic Stormtrooper bumping his head on the door blooper wasn't mentioned. The fact it was so funny behind the scenes that they kept it in and then later on added an actual **bonk** SFX to go with it is hysterical. 😆
Rest in peace to Micheal Leader who played the clumsy trooper... you went down in Star Wars history good sir.
That bit still makes me laugh so much.
This is a sad shame this video underperformed. I would have loved to see a part two
Bruh
Part 2 is almost done he just needs to edit and release it
Your confusing 🫤 me
What made me appreciate Star Wars more as of recent were its inspiration from other works, mainly Flash Gordon and the other being the Lord of the Rings which is a series I started getting into. Some good examples of their similarities are:
1. Obi-Wan's character being more similar to Gandalf and that he's an old and experienced monk/wizard that has been through a lot, guiding the heroes throughout their adventure, sacrificing themselves for the heroes to progress and then coming back as a more powerful form to continuously guide the heroes: For Gandalf was his white OP form, and for Obi-Wan... a ghost lol.
2. The way the stories forces the heroes in giving them a drive on going on an adventure after their refusal. For Frodo, it was the Ring's evil power and that he's being hunted down, and for Luke is that his ordinary life comes to a close after his aunt and uncle were killed by the Empire.
3. The heroes were given a wound that would never fully heal. For Frodo, it was his stab wound by the Witch King's blade and for Luke, it was his hand amputated by Vader.
I feel like without Lord of the Rings, Star Wars wouldn't have even existed and even if it were without LOTR, it would've been drastically different to the ones we have.
Correction: Vader dosent learn about luke in the emperor scene. Palpatine is learning about it now (hence why the special edition changed the line, so that’s more obvious), but Vader has always known and is hiding that he knew. He’s been hunting for the son of Skywalker the entire movie: in his first scene in the film when he identifies the rebel base he says “I’m sure Skywalker is with them”. Vader always knew he was looking for his son the entire film
I don't think that he always knew. I think he probably assumed that his child (only one he knew of at the time) was dead along with Padmé.
He didn’t know, he thought the baby (not knowing he had twins) died along with padame.
One thing to note on in terms of the transition of the look of the visual effects of A New Hope and Empire Strikes back:
When A New Hope was being made, the newly founded Industrial Light and Magic was a fledgling company at the time. When Principle Photography had ended in London, George found that ILM had only *four* shots completed, with only *six* months left to finish the effects, as for the majority of the time, ILM was developing the motion-control systems that would be used to film the miniatures with. ILM did prevail and get them done in time, however, and of course, the film won the Oscar for best visual effects that year.
What is incredible is that in the span of *two* years, ILM went from a fledgling company to a company who could hold their own and create fantastic visuals, even pioneering certain aspects of visual effects, such as the use of motion-control cameras with stop-motion animation (something Aardman and Laika use in their films to do moving shots with stop-motion animated characters in them)
A New Hope may have introduced ILM to the world at large, but I truly think that Empire Strikes Back was really the one that put them on the map as one of the best visual effects companies in the history of film.
I thank Toy Story 2 for getting me into Star Wars.
1:16:20 when Christopher Lee didn't want Count Dooku to plead for his life because it wasn't in character for Dooku, so he just said nothing and looked scarred as hell that he was about to die.
(I typed this paragraph before i listened to the rant about the line) Same goes here. The "saying nothing" worked, and got the point across of Vader's conflict. Especially since Vader doesn't normally say his true feelings. (Anakin showed his true feelings alot, but Vader kept them bottled up)
The "nooooo" sounds like a kid when they want something to stop, instead of taking a deep breath, not thinking about it, and just doing it, like Vader normally does with everything else.
There is one big comparison between Luke and Avatar the Last Airbender's Aang. In Empire Strikes Back we see Luke abandon his training on Dagoba to help his friends, and he ends up losing his hand. In Book 2 of Avatar the Last Airbender Aang abandoned his chakra training with the Guru because he wasn't willing to let go of Katara. And he ended up getting killed by Azula's lightning in the season finale.
Also, the final fight between Luke and Vader in Return of the Jedi was recreated for the video game turned film adaptation The Force Unleashed, where we as Starkiller face off against Vader on the first Death Star (the appearance of the second Death Star was even used as the basis for the first Death Star being under construction). After we defeat Vader we are given the choice of either killing him or battling the Emperor, which was the same scenario that Luke was in.
To give you an idea of just how evil Palpatine was, in Legends, when the first Death Star blew up, he had the architect killed in one of the cruelest ways possible, then revived in a clone body, with the cycle repeated if progress on the second Death Star slowed down at all.
In my opinion, the entire trilogy is great. It may be unusual, but here is my rank:
1 - The Empire Strikes Back
2 - Return Of The Jedi
3 - A New Hope
Emperor Palpatine’s entrance in ROTJ is some of the most gangster shit
One of the best cases storytelling in A New Hope is Luke's T-16 Skyhopper. It's in the background when he is playing with a model version of it then during the briefing on the attack on the Death Star Luke says he used to bullseye womprats in the that ship. So small, but so crucial.
Details like this are absent in the Sequel Trilogy.
I’m really happy that Tug is now branching out into other franchises instead of his channel being a Thomas channel
Ah
So true, I do like a healthy mix. Glad to see him cover one of my favorite franchises
He's like a mutli-fandom channel
Thought he was never gonna make Thomas videos again (kinda scared me for a little bit)
I believe until after production started, the plan was for Obi-Wan to not die and travel to Yavin and be the general that briefs the pilots and commands from the ground (Dodonna in the final film) but Marcia Lucas convinced George Lucas that it was more powerful for him to die at the 2nd act turning point because he'd be quite passive in act 3. This might be why the Rebel base comes out of nowhere a bit- Obi-Wan was meant to guide us through it.
Lore-wise, I believe the Rebellion was indeed trying to recruit Kenobi. That would make his death a pretty big blow to the Rebellion, even if they're already loosing. Considering he was a general in the Clone Wars, he would have definitely been a threat to the Empire
While the idea of obi wan living seems like a good idea, as he stated in this video, George was not sure if there would even BE a sequel. So he took a lot of inspiration from the hero's journey and decided to kill Kenobi, fulfilling the mentor's role as they are not going to be around forever. Yes, Yoda was created to help fulfill the same role only due to the choice made for Star Wars. If you want, Joseph Campbell wrote an amazing book on this matter.
@@jaylenware363 would be nice to see an alternate og trilogy where Obi-Wan joins the rebellion with luke as his apprentice after the first death star destruction, would be interesting to see old friends, master and apprentice, on opposite sides on the battlefield. Star wars definitely needs a what if series like the avengers have
@@Kristof-cl4df Fosho, although there are some old Legends-era comics that covered what-ifs for the original trilogy called Star Wars: Infinities (and to a lesser, questionable extent, Star Wars: Visionaries and Star Wars Tales [1999]). Infinities in particular tackles what if Luke failed to destroy the Death Star in ANH, what if Han didn't save Luke from freezing in ESB (dark, I know), and what if Leia blew up Jabba's palace in ROTJ. I do wish they delved deeper into the alternate possibilities. They only explore each OT movie once, they hardley scratched the surface imo
@@jaylenware363 didn't know that, it's pretty cool. And I agree they only touched the surface if that's all they did
I never gave the Return of the Jedi title a second thought. But as I watch this, I'm glad it could be interpreted in any way we think it could be.
The Unlucky Tug having his channel also being a non-Thomas/Tugs one is so much fascinating and brighter and doing a Star Wars video is a great example of it.
I like the different type of content away from thomas.
It demonstrates how a good content creator he is
@@nerddeoooIndeed.
Same
Yeah, but I still like Thomas. But I agree, he can make more different content like movies and shows.
@@jordandutra9029 Exactly. Glad to see him expand his roots of his other tastes on other franchises. I'd also like to see him cover the Potter films as well.
It’s nice that you’re branching off to do these videos. I’ve always loved Star Wars ever since I was very young, and I think I am one of the few people who actually likes the prequels. Anyone else here who likes them?
I've only really known Star Wars and how it goes as an outsider to the fandom and through the Lego games or Family Guy parodies so this has mostly been new ground for me. It's so easy to see now how it became such an icon!
Congratulations on your engagement as well! Wishing you both all the best 😁
I was never a Star Wars fan as a kid but this video now made me watch the original trilogy. I just finished watching Return of the Jedi on Sunday and I loved the movies, I may watch the rest soon.
Again congratulations on your engagement, Tug! While I'm not exactly a huge Star Wars nerd, I do respect the franchise and it's impact on pop culture. It's really fun hearing you talk about other media from time to time, and I enjoyed this first talking about the original trilogy. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the prequels and the sequels when you eventually get to them. Have a good one, dude! 👍❤️
Cool for respecting it even if you're not that into it. A bunch of my school friends say they hate Star Wars yet I doubt they've actually watched anything from it. Were all 15 though, so that mentality they have might snap out of them soon.
Your voice for reviewing and explaining other franchises is stellar. I started watching your videos because of thomas but I welcome other franchises being reviewed.
Empire strikes back is my favourite star wars movie period, I didnt like it when I watched it as a 10 year old, given that I watched it after the action packed prequel, but now I appreciate it much more.
The branching out really is great! I loved hearing you talk about Cars content I’ve never watched, The Incredibles, and now some Star Wars. Whatever you talk about it’s gonna be great!
The dialogue between Luke and Palpatine's "Your over confidence is your weakness", "your faith in your friends is yours" shows that both are right. Palpatine's cockiness thinking everything is according to plan is what made him blind to any threat creeping behind his back, while Luke's worry of his friends at Cloud City which forces him to leave his training is what made him weak during his first confrontation with Vader. But what I find interesting is that Luke proves Palpatine wrong by showing him that being surrounded by his friends is what made Luke strong and Palpatine's assertion of dominance with no one truly there with him is what made him weak.
Tommy choo choo and Star Wars were some of my favorite things as a kid. I found your channel when I got back into Thomas after stopping at season 13, this video really reminds why I loved these films as a kid, and I want to re-watch the first six Star Wars films now, after Disney made me really despise this franchise.
I'm one of the two guys who likes Episode 1 and 3 so it'll be interesting to hear your opinions when we get to the prequels.
I like Episode 1
Finally found time to watch this video.
It goes without saying that The Original Trilogy of Star Wars is the most loved of the series.
New Hope: A fantastic introduction to the world of Star Wars.
Empire Strikes Back: The phenomenal sequel that changed the direction of the series forever.
Return of the Jedi: The clunkiest of the trio that makes up for it with wonderful finale to this amazing story.
After watching this review I want to watch the Original Trilogy once again. I envy my friend who has never seen the movies and gets to experience them for the first time.
And congratulations to you Nic for your engagement. I wish only the best for you and your finance.
I’m not a Star Wars fan but this brought me nostalgia
Met Dave Prowse at Play Expo in 2014. He was a nice guy. R.I.P. Dave.
R.I.P David Prowse
Apparently, the reason why the movie changed the Wookies to the Ewoks is because George Lucas wants the empire to go face to face with more primitive creatures, as wookies are seen as technological
I’ve heard that it was because they couldn’t get many 7 to 8 ft guys to play the Wookiee actually
and money
More Star Wars toys. The Ewoks and some of the characters in the next trilogy were definitely aimed at selling more character toys to kids.
@@survivingworldsteam Like Jar Jar. That character was made to sell toys, let's be real.
@@GothRailfanGeorge actually found him to be really funny and kind of pushed for jar jar to be there. George made so many mistakes with the prequel trilogy. It really felt like there was no one to rein him in and tell him no, everyone was a yes man to him.
I love that Tug watched these films with his fiancee and had so many fond stories to speak of her reactions, I'm really happy for their engagement.
A New Hope is the perfect film to me, and while I've never delved into Star Wars before my original and re-edit watches through the trilogy, I can confidently say that this campy, unaltered, tightly written space opera can never be matched in its sublime quality. I'd say it's my favorite, though I still consider Empire the objective best and Jedi a decent conclusion. My ranking would ironically be the chronological order, though they're all around the same mark between 9/10 or 10/10.
I just started with the Star Wars franchise thanks to this video, thanks for reviving my childhood with Thomas, and getting me around with Star Wars now.
Congratulations on your engagement!
Ok- to provide an explanation as to why Ford’s acting in ROTJ wasn’t as energetic as it was in Empire and New Hope, was because before filming started for ROTJ, he was busy acting for Raiders of the Lost Ark, so after filming wrapped for that movie, he was instantly assigned to ROTJ, so that is why his acting wasn’t as energetic as it was before.
I'll have to admit I've never watched much of the Star Wars movies or anything related to it besides maybe something with friends, but I love your commentary about this! I can definitely understand a lot of the love for this franchise, looking forward to more videos talking about this!
Fun Fact about many of the British actors in Star Wars is that many appeared in Doctor Who either before or after the original trilogy, Michael Sheard (Admiral Ozzel) was a regular to Who and would be filming 5th Doctor Peter Davison's first story, "Castrovalva" a year after the release of "Empire", Cy Town was well known as a Dalek Operator, Don Henderson (General Tagge) was alongside Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford in "Delta and the Bannermen", Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett), Garrick Hagon (Biggs Darklighter) and even Vader himself Dave Prowse appeared alongside 3rd Doctor Jon Pertwee in different episodes, Julian Glover (General Veers) appeared alongside 4th Doctor Tom Baker in one of the best loved stories of the tenure "City of Death", but the biggie is Peter Cushing (Governor Tarkin) who played a human version of the Doctor in the 1960's Dalek films.
Even in the prequel content you get names like his royal bombasticness Brian Blessed who appeared alongside Colin Baker in the 14 part epic "Trial of a Time Lord", or 10th Doctor David Tennant appearing in "The Clone Wars" series.
Woohoo! This is the moment that most of us has been waiting for, this part 1 video was awesome, marvelous work on the first part of this documentary, can’t wait see how part 2 turned out. 😁👍
Oh and congrats on your engagement dude. 😎
I just finished watching these first 3 films and watching this video afterwards really helps me appreciate these films so much more, and the development history is something I find fascinating. I really hope the next part of this review series comes soon, maybe by then I'll have seen the prequels which bring us Jar Jar Binks, the best Star Wars character ever.
Ah yes, our lord and saviour Darth Jar Jar
Palpatine is, IMO, the greatest villain in all of cinema. The scope of his plan, the effectiveness of his plan, his power, his puppet mastery, and the wonderful portrayal (ESPECIALLY in the prequels) by Ian McDiarmid, for me, comprise a villain that has never been topped on screen.
This really makes me want to rewatch the whole franchise
Congrats on the engagement! Love your content no matter what franchise you cover!
Never in a million years would I expect you to review and analyze Star Wars. My favorite film franchise!
My girlfriend had never seen Star Wars so I showed her the original and prequel trilogies. She was somewhat indifferent to them, but I also got to see them in a whole new light. I grew up when the prequels came out and despite how goofy they are I see the great aspects of it and still like them. My friends my age also love the series and we often have discussions about our thoughts on it. One friend and I had a 2 hour conversation about Star Wars on a long drive recently and just reminisced on this series we grew up with. I’m really looking forward to this video, keep it up 👍🏻.
She should watch the Sequels too if you ask me.
I'd hold that suggestion @@callofthedragon6487 best not to push on opinions trust me
I think the prequels are to Star Wars what the HiT era is to Thomas: something that was hated when it first came out but is now respected because of something even more despised (sequals/BWBA)
this is where the fun begins
Han Solo is my favourite character from these movies. Harrison Ford played him to perfection every time. Even in force awakens, he just brings an a game performance. But his first one is my favourite performance of his.
My opinion to every movie in the trilogy:
A New Hope: A masterpiece
The Empire Strikes Back: A masterpiece
Return of the Jedi: A masterpiece.
And congrats on your engagement! Can't wait to hear you talk about the prequels.
Never thought I’d see the day you’d review the Star Wars movies!
Been a fan of the franchise for nearly 5 years, and I find myself agreeing most of your analysis on the OT, you’ve brought up some pretty interesting points as well.
I really liked to see Alec Guiness getting some recognition as well as everyone else, despite the fact that his views on SW are somewhat controversial, he played Obi-Wan perfectly.
And as for Anakin becoming a Force ghost, well, there is a novel from the old canon (the one before the 2014 reboot) which explains that Obi-Wan’s ghost taught Anakin on the fly when the latter was about to die, and surprisingly he did learn it pretty fast and managed to become one just in time, although I do agree that this kinda ruins your idea of not overthinking this scene, lol.
Overall, if you actually read this pretty good rant and rankings, sad to see Jedi at the bottom, but your points throughout this video make a lot sense indeed, and props to all of your work, be it Thomas-related or if anything else.
Also, I know that you said you’d not want to cover any of the series, but there’s a 2D-animated one about the Clone Wars (not the 3D one from 2008) that is actually pretty short (the full length of the entire series is about the same of one of the movies), but covers the timeframe between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, so if you somehow end up reading this Tug, I’d recommend you to check it out.
As someone who only really saw the original trilogy once each, I really enjoyed this retrospective on the films. I did Subscribe mostly for the Thomas stuff, I enjoyed the Cars video, but I think I can get behind on watching all the Star Wars videos as well.
Just goes to show that an entertaining person can make any topic fun.
Enjoyed this video so much! Can't wait for the next part. I would love it if Tug made a ranking video for the original trilogy of Indiana Jones. Boy, that would be something.
Again, congratulations on your engagement. I can understand your 1st problem with a new Hope about Leia having the tracked Falcon take the Death Star to Yavin. I didn’t get it either. Then I watched Carrie Fisher’s audition in which the script she’s given explains why she’s leading the empire to the rebel base. Hiding is pointless, the Death Star will destroy every planet until they get to the rebels and the only hope at the moment is to lead the empire’s weapon to them so they can use the data they have secured to beat the empire immediately. Putting the rebellion on the front line to save the rest of the galaxy from the empire’s wrath based on faith in their abilities is damn bold
Thank you neat and i wonder why this wasnt used?
22:17 His name is Vanden Willard. 27:27 It's called a Ronto. The breathing pod is Vader's meditation chamber. 53:26 The bounty hunter Leia is disguised as is named Boussh. Jedi can change their appearance as a force spirit. And the Clone Wars explains that you must go through many trials in order to become a force ghost. 1:16:09 That's Sy Snoodles.
Sy is one of my favorite characters just because she killed Ziro. Not all heroes wear capes
But for a akin it’s pretty weird because he would have to speed run the trials or what happened to Ashoka when she almost dies and ended up in some world between worlds like place and had her final lesson from anakin maybe the same happened to anakin and he just speedran the trials this could explain how quickly anakin became a force ghost possibly hours after his death and the book “from a certain point of view” actually could prove this because it says that obiwan reached out to anakin as he was dying could have just told anakin a way he could see his children again but not physically.
One of my favorite things about the original film is that George cast the actors who played Dr. Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster as Tarkin and Vader respectively. Such a funny easter egg.
I think I have an idea of how Anakin learned to be a force ghost, Qui-Gon learned to do it when he was dead and when Anakin died Qui-gon was in the place where good people die and told Anakin how to do it, maybe the other jedi didn't show up because Luke doesn't know them and only the ones he knows came to help and make him happy in the celebration.
Anakin is just a force nepo baby
One of my cousins really loves this franchise, and seeing this video makes me think about her. I like the franchise (in secret, XD), and I can't wait for part 2. May the Force be with you, Tug.
Congrats on your engagement!
I remember watching a New Hope fully for the first time and got chills watching the ending climatic battle on the death star. I also find it fascinating about the original script for the last jedu which was originally titled "Revenge of the Jedi," I know you can purchase a replica poster for it online. I just find it fascinating how that film was originally supposed to be.
As a HUGE sw nut this was a great and fair review. I had one or two differences in opinions but all in all I'm glad someone else has such a passion for the original trilogy as I do. Growing up in the nineties, I always looked up to Luke Skywalker and the prequels hadn't even been teased yet, so I thought that being a Jedi was the ultimate goal as a kid. I have nothing but love for them, flaws and all.
For me, this trilogy is the perfect mixture of a creator's vision and an audience pleaser. As you said, Lucas had a team to keep him in check and reel in ideas that just didn't work. Compare this to the other two trilogies. For the prequels, he had too much control and, while he had an interesting idea on paper, it wasn't presented in the best light. With the sequels, he had little to no say in those films, which shows as the movies either didn't deviate from the story beats of the Original Trilogy or, if they do, it comes at the expense of legacy characters (i.e., Luke and Han) or previously established plot points (i.e., Rey's backstory).
I dont have social media, so super congratulations to you and your fiance. I hope you and her live a happy life. I also love seeing more non-Thomas content on this kick-ass channel. It adds variety and can increase viewership. You obviously love your fans so keep up the amazing work.
Tug has got a wife to be
Remember brothers. If our leader can do it, we all can 🫡
Thank you brother!
Not everyone wants to though
Great video tug! I have to say-I actually and the shock of finding out Vader was Luke’s father from the film a few years back. I am now 16, but watched the movie for the first time at 8 years old, and had never interacted with the franchise before. I wasn’t previously interested. The reveal absolutely melted my mind. I’ll never forget, my mom let me watch the movie so long as I promised to do my math homework as soon as it was done. I remember clearly I was unable to focus on math, and rushed through it to watch the next movie. I’m pretty sure I failed that assignment. 😅
Somehow I managed to avoid that massive pop culture shock, but I was pretty closed off from mainstream media as a kid, and wasn’t he rally interested in most franchises.
But, the plot twist has nothing on the villain plot twist of The Incredibles 2. 😂
The people who get like, irrationally angry, about the Disney era star wars stuff worry me. Like, Disney made me lose interest in Star Wars, sure as well, sure, most of their Star Wars shows and movies have been, at best mediocre to at worst, sort of dumpster fires, and I understand feeling frustrated . . . I don't understand the raw incandescent hatred though.
I'm literally in the process of doing a star wars rewatch, so this could not be better timed
It feels like I’ve watched you grow through your channel, congratulations on the engagement!!
I really liked this switch from Thomas and trying something New. Especially star wars.
Lovely video. I enjoyed your Incredibles video and this was an excellent coverage of the trilogy. Just watching it rekindled my lost love of the OT that’s been diluted by mid Disney content as of late. So hyped for Part 2!!!
I can't wait for your ranking on the prequel trilogy because I want to hear your honest opinion on Revenge of the Sith. It is my favorite Star Wars movie out of all of them because:
1. It is the culmination of Palpatine's Grand Sith Plan and the Galactic Empire.
2. Order 66 is the reason why we see few Jedi in the original trilogy.
3. How Anakin fully embraced the Dark Side of the Force and became Darth Vader.
4. Great lightsaber duels, such as Anakin vs. Obi Wan and Yoda vs. Palpatine.
5. Demonstrates how cunning Palpatine really was.
However, I think you should also do a review on both the 2008 Star Wars: the Clone Wars TV series and Star Wars: Rebels because they are both really good TV shows.
I hope he doesn’t trash on it like everyone else
A New Hope is great as an example of how much a team brings to a film. Alongside all the pointless hockey fluff that was trimmed with Luke's friends and stuff, the actual performances really do so much to elevate the script. There's some lines that sound like absolute nonsense word mush if you sit and look at what is actually being said - but the performances are so good that you don't notice. Such a great movie. Really enjoyed this vid! Looking forward to seeing what you have to say on the Prequels - Attack of the Clones especially :)
Congrats on the engagement, it only gets better and better from here! Im glad you're finding success with branching out and making videos you're interested in making. It helps that they are very well produced just like all your videos. I've gotten back into Thomas now that I have a 7 month old son and your videos are the best on the platform.
This is such a well-thought-out, nuanced discussion of the original trilogy. I don’t know of there’s a single point you make that I disagree with.
Damn, from my childhood (Thomas) all the way to my favourite movie franchise (Star Wars). I surprised to be sure but a welcome one. Absolutely love your rereviews and retrospective videos. I’ve been looking to this and can’t wait till we get to the prequels. May the force be with you , always Unluckytugs.
I think you have a great eye for reviewing stuff in an intelligent and thoughtful manner - hell I even watched all your reviews of things I haven't watched, including the ones of all the Cars movies! I'd love to see you rank and review more stuff now that Thomas has pretty much been sewed up. have you watched any of Rob Ager's stuff on Collative Learning? he does some great Star Wars analysis of themes and motifs in the films
I don’t even like Star Wars, or at least wasn’t interested, but thanks to Tug I get why people like this franchise. Tug made me see the light about star wars and for that, thank you.
My explanation for the Anakin ghost scene is that when we see Anakin in the theatrical cut, that's how Luke sees him, but when Hayden appears in the special cut, that's the pov of Obi-Wan and Yoda. Idc if there's some book from 2004 explaining that there's actually a rift in space-time because of Anakins death or something just shut up
A True Epic Memorable Trilogy Masterpiece!
When Tug says "okay rant time" its like hearing "it's morphin time" he's about to throwdown 😂.
Congrats on the engagement, wishing you both the best 🙏😊
I still love Morbius memes
I know it’s a lot to watch but Clone Wars and Rebels are both amazing shows. Clone wars has its duds but I highly recommend it because of its characters and animation(the show definitely peaks when they focus on the clones) and Rebels used it’s low budget to tell some amazing stories. I know you’re probably busy with you’re engagement but if you ever get a chance, the animated shows are amazing
Just got to say, congratulations on the engagement!
Though I've never been a fan of the series, only knowing it through parodies, the lego games, and what my brother told me, I still found this really interesting. I honestly like how simple the first movie is. I kinda wish more modern things were like that. No grand plotlines or twists, just a simple heroic story.
Worth 1 hour and 22 minutes of my life. Can't say I've seen you do a better non-Thomas video yet.
I’m glad someone else besides me adores the ROTJ score out of the entire trilogy! 🎼
I’m a fan of Star Wars and I love them all and I gotta say, those original and movies are sooooooo EPIC! & Star Wars is so legendary, good one👍🏻
First off, CONGRATS ON GETTING ENGAGED TUG
Second: excited for part 2, this was very entertaining to watch/listen to
well done, and you're the first person i've come across who feels pretty much exactly the same way i do about the change in force ghost heads at the end of Jedi, i wrote this just a few weeks before seeing your video: there's many ways to look at this, including the fact that George made the decision himself & it's really up to him...but something most people seem to miss, or dismiss, is that these 3 Force ghosts, were there FOR LUKE TO SEE! Luke would not recognize young Hayden Christensen Anakin, but he would recognize the face of his father who he had just unmasked, after Anakin redeemed himself (thru his son's faith & love.) It's reasonable that Anakin would physically age, even inside the Vader helmet. &, it's maybe less reasonable that as a Force ghost he would look all nice & healthy with full set of hair etc. - but that's permissible for aesthetics, & also representative of him regaining his humanity. lastly, Hayden Force ghost Anakin kind of negates the huge meaning of Anakin's redemption when it actually happened. considering all this, it really seems the only viable reason was to make it "less confusing" for younger audiences who saw the prequels first, which is one reason George did it (but, even that is flawed because again, you clearly see his face just moments before, & everything else is the same between the 2 force ghosts, the Jedi robe, etc.)
The Vader "no" special edition change Return of the Jedi was a change made because every Star Wars movie had a scene with someone shouting "no", and Lucas thought Return of the Jedi being the only one to not have one would be weird, since it would be an odd exception to his motif of Star Wars rhyming/repeating in a manner similar to poetry.
im really surprised this video didnt do better, this video is great!
Congratulations on your engagement Tug! Really looking forward to this series, love me some Stars Wars content. Would recommend watching The Clone Wars (even in your own time, not for a video), it adds a lot of great context for the period between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, which has some great arcs and adds a lot to fan favourite characters (Ahsoka and Captain Rex in particular benefit massively from the show). It is a bit of a commitment with there being seven seasons to watch, but it's arguably the peak of Star Wars (at least to me)
12:56 Sorry to be that guy, Chewbacca was never intended to speak English. Ben Burtt said it himself. And that video is just a fun BTS fact, that Peter Mayhew spoke in English just so Harrison Ford and the rest had a better understanding of the tone of the scene, kind of like what they do nowadays with CGI characters, where on set the stunts for said characters have a photo of the face of said character so that the actors know where to look.