I'm no rocket scientist, but could it be because they were made 20 yrs later than the originals?
Your misunderstanding my post hrabb...I am talking about technology IN the prequels, not the technology used to make the movies.
If the original movies are supposedly 20 years after the prequels, shouldn't the technology in the ANH, TESB and ROTJ be more advanced than in the prequels rather than the other way around.
Perhaps it's me looking too much in to these films, and I'm not necessarily saying this is valid, or makes sense. Supposing we say the time of the Republic is a golden age. A time of great advances in Star Warsian art and literature and whatever else, with great leaps and bounds made in technology. Enter the dark times of the Empire and say a dark age. People living their days just to survive and not to improve upon technology and whatnot. Then they lose much of what had created.
If that makes sense.
I heard someone on one of TheForce.net boards that there's to be some sort of cataclysmic event that takes place in this flick- something on a planetary of celestial scale. That may have a way of explaining Episode's IV-VI lack of technological "advancements."
The only major technological "advance" I see from the prequel trilogy to the original trilogy, is that fighter craft like the X-Wing and Y-Wing have the ability to travel through hyperspace on their own power. If you can remember Obi-Wan's craft in ATOC, he required a hyperdrive booster that attached to his craft.
DLibra, there are books that sorta bridge both series- or at least try to flesh out the origins of the Rebel Alliance. One is the guide book for the "X-Wing" combat simulator for the PC. There's also the
Journal of the Whills prologue in the "Star Wars" novellization. Written by Princess Leia, it gives a brief overview of Palpatine's rise to power.
Interestingly enough, I find the political angle of the prequels to be the most intruiging thing about this series.
