For like a week in college. Fuck no I didn't.

You can choose one director, dead or alive, to become President of the World. Who?

Tbh at this point I just want to let the prequels fucking go. Yes, they're terrible, but relegislating them is a good way to make no one happy. The fans who like I, II, and III will be pissed that they're being "disrespected," and the fans who hate them will just have all their bitter memories dredged up again, and EVERYONE would have endless debates over what's canon now. One of the joys of this new SW era has been the newfound ability to basically just forget about the prequels if you want to. It's really liberating.

It's melodramatic to say, but the prequels and special editions are legitimately unhealthy for me to think about. I absolutely love the DiF commentaries on the prequel trilogy, but they were also what spawned a several-year period of me being fucking miserable around Star Wars because of how tarnished it had gotten for me. The Disney era represented a clean slate for me, and I really don't want to let that go because I don't want to be the sort of person who gets genuinely, viscerally upset by a fucking movie trilogy anymore.

Thank you both so much! I haven't written a long-form movie piece for a long time, felt good to get back into it. Glad to know others got something out of it as well.