George Lucas’s strategy to create a saga in nonconsecutive order may have been a brilliant way to build suspense, but with suspense comes anticipation and ultimately heightened expectations. Lucas could hardly hope to meet such expectations perfectly; so, it would seem, he hardly even tried to. Continuity issues were the first issue to be addressed in such an ass-backward approach to film-making; you can’t embark on such an epic endeavor if you can’t maintain a consistent storyline. For the most part, that wasn’t an issue: Anakin grew up to be Vador as planned (though, in order to procreate and produce Luke and Leia with Padme, Padme had to apparently lack the ability to age during Anakin’s adolescent years), the empire became corrupt, the rebel alliance came about, etc., etc. The one thing not accounted for? The advent of CGI. Somehow CGI existed in the first three but only puppets and Frank Oz’s voice did in the last three (the
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