What's Behind the Star Wars Prequels Backlash?

Does Adam Savage have any advice for getting over the hesitation to learn a new skill? Does Adam prefer quick and rough to slow and detailed making, and must he ALWAYS weather his builds? What does Adam think is behind the backlash on the Star Wars prequels? In this live stream excerpt Adam answers these questions from Tested members LexLuthorJr, Jon Frier, Michael Schnell and DecanFrost, whom we thank for their support! What do YOU think is behind the backlash?

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[graywulf]

One of the most meaningful pieces of advice I've ever gotten came from Jake the Dog on Adventure Time: "Sucking at something is the first step towards getting sorta good at something."

[cypherfunc]

Another aspect that makes "build it three times" brilliant is that it removes the pressure to make the first one perfect. Knowing that your first and even second attempt are for learning and practice means that you _focus_ on learning and practice, instead of any (totally normal) mistakes or flaws.

[GymAndSun]

Also, The Matrix came out in March 1999. As a teenager, that felt like how my dad talked about Star Wars was for him in 1977. Blew my mind.

[iofthefox]

I'm 56 now and i just started to make Dioramas, Models and Miniatures. It's never too late.

[Asher]

The Phantom Menace is a very special movie for me. In 1999 I started a new career and my treat with my first paycheck was to go and see this movIe.

I rarely ever got to see movies so this was an amazing experience. I’ll always remember the awe I felt when they entered the underwater city. It blew my mind!

[MatthewMe]

When it comes to the common feeling of "if I start now, it'll be years before I'm any good" common to starting new hobbies or creative ventures, I tend to fall back on a mode of thought that has served me well. Imagine yourself 3 or 4 years from now, NOT having started it. You'll just be 3 or 4 years down the road, and be just as bad (or nonexistent) at it. The time passes anyway. Use it.

This may not work for everyone, but it's helped me get started on so many things.

[jeffsaxton]

Back when I was a professional model builder (did that for 25 years); if we had a job where we had to make multiple objects that were exactly the same, we'd always make two extra -- the client then got the best copies. Invariably, the first one completed was almost never supplied to the client.

[cartersmith]

In regard to the making 3 times, I did this during Covid with wooden benches. I was so surprised by the incremental difference between the first and second, second and third. Highly recommend

[ers]

“As your island of knowledge grows, so does your shore of ignorance”.

[mithardy]

"Knowing more means you know what you don't know. " That statement has just given me the biggest moment of clarity in my adult life. It sums up the reason why I constantly learn more and more and head down so many rabbit holes.

[bentonjackson]

I love the feeling of starting a new hobby. It is so fun to shoot up the learning curve of being a beginner.

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

[fwiffo]

Another good part of building things 3 times: When building the second one you'll overcorrect for mistakes you made in the first one. Like the first one might be too flimsy, but the second one ends up being too heavy. The third one finds some sort of balance.

[kylestonebraker]

Title of content: Star Wars Preqeals
Actual content: some of the most profound advice you could hear about making.

[Rocky-gwjf]

When I first started learning to be a Science Communicator, I hated deadlines. “How can I ever get this done, ” mixed in with a lot of procrastination, of course.

Now I LOVE deadlines. When I started writing columns for an online publication, I told the publisher and editor MY self-imposed deadlines (which they did not require), to stop me from research-edit-repeat forever.

At some point, “it’s as good as it’s gonna get, time to move on.” Some of my “I’m out of time, and this is a piece of doo-doo” articles were praised by readers the most. Others that I spent WAY too many months on were like dropping a pebble into the ocean. You never can tell.

Adam: thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU for your videos. I’ve learned a lot, and learned that I’m not some kind of weirdo. Invaluable.

[josephtew]

Thank you Adam. I've been searching for a way to explain to my 10 year old that it's okay to fail and try not to be fearful of the process even though everyone feels that fear. This is a way to prove to his metric driven. Mind a way that there is progress immediately. Such a simple idea but amazingly powerful and one that's is overlooked. Thank you

[mattmurphy]

I saw the original Star Wars (A New Hope) at a drive-in when I was seven, and it was everything. I wanted that same feeling when A Phantom Menace came out. And I had it for the first 20 minutes before my 30yo brain started noticing issues. What had changed was me, Lucas was still making the movie for kids, but I had expected the storytelling to mature with me. What changed my mind about the quality was watching them with my seven yo son. He had the same delight I had, and seeing him jump up out of his seat while watching them for the first made me grateful that they were made.

[MrGittz]

Adam is so right about effects. Fellowship of the Ring, a 3 hour fantasy film, has something like 570 VFX shots. Each Hobbit film had well over 2, 000. Fast and the furious movies have over 1000 shots. More than a 3 hour fantasy film, it’s insane.

[matthiashertz]

There's a saying. One should build three houses in your life. The first one for an enemy, the second one for a friend and the last one for yourself. Perfectly catching what you're saying.

[porgy]

About trying things 3 times: I have found personally with model painting if I'm painting multiple of the same/similar models I see improvement between the 1st and 2nd models, but often a drop off on the 3rd or 4th since the increase in competency is counteracted by a decrease in focus and enthusiasm because it's less new and exciting.