bionicbob said:
It might help if you tell us specifically what you want in the cover design (or don't want) before someone commits, since the last few times members posted cover ideas for your edits none met with your creative vision.
Thanks for your input bionicbob, yeah Buffy was a difficult case, but I liked your idea (that's why I used some of the ideas from it for my cover) and the one from Scar. You can freely suggest and the cover the forum-readers here think is best will then be the official cover for it.
This time I won't do one myself as I'm clearly not in the league necessary yet.
Regarding Star Wars, originally I had thought the reason I don't like the prequels nearly as much as the original movies was because the prequels used so much bad looking CGI and that there was this desaster called Jar Jar Binks or that Hayden's Anakin was such an arrogant son of a b**** from the get-go. While that adds to the dislike, the real reason is imho something else:
The original movies had a clear good-vs-evil-structure, you met Luke, Han, Chewie and Leia, who are all good, have a good chemistry with each other and you root for them while they try to defeat an evil empire, and Vader who is the most prominent symbol of the empire then surprisingly happens to be the
, which makes the whole good vs evil even more personal.
The prequels don't have the possibility for such a structure, it's more a retelling in more details of what you already know, ie. how Anakin got seduced to the dark side, and how a republic turned into an empire. Yes, it's interesting, but in such a story there is nothing to root for or to be cheerful about, there is no coregroup... it's a story, where the evil tries to breakthrough, but who would want to root for evil?
That's probably why JJ Abrams decided to basically remake Star Wars IV, instead of telling a brand new story, the good vs evil-story, as basic as it may sound is just powerful, and within it you can create sympathy, relations that you care for, be cheerful, have a cause you can root for. Still I wished Abrams would have used new threats and plotdevices to at least make it seem like a new plot.
Back to the prequels, so given this, I don't think it's ever possible to make the prequels get that energy, joy and excitement the original Star Wars could induce, but it's imho possible to tell its interesting story in a much more convincing way.