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Originally Posted by Conan46
Sequels and Prequels often ruin or diminish the better, original story. That has happened with Star Wars. One wishes they had stopped after the 3rd original movie which lost something even by that 3rd movie. LOTR was written as one continuous story originally and not a trilogy. That same power and continuity doesn't come across in modern trilogies and long running series. They quickly lose steam after the original context and theme peters out a few books into the series.
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Agree on all points. The irony is that they started writing the fantasy and SF trilogies (and now now the "forever-ilogies") based on the success of the three part LOTR (which, as you say, wasn't a trilogy at all). I don't know if it's true or not, but I've read that the reason
The Lord of the Rings came in three parts is because Unwin & Allen thought it was going to flop and they wanted to save paper by printing lesser numbers of each succeeding book.
As far as I'm concerned,
Star Wars should have stopped with the first movie. But that first one was really something. There had never been anything like it. "CGI" effects before there was CGI.