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It may be the most notorious of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, but there’s no question that The Phantom Menace has gotten a bad wrap. The time has finally come to admit the truth, and accept that the REAL story of Star Warsbegins in Episode 1… but you won’t realize it if you only watch the movies.

The movie may not be flawless, as a low point in both large-scale action and momentum. But the real problem with The Phantom Menace was the assumption that it was the “beginning” of a story fans thought they knew–instead of what it truly was. Not a simple prequel, but the first of a three-part story shifting the perspective on the original saga. Yet even to this day, many self-professed Star Wars fans refuse to see it as such, claiming the Star Warsprequels haven’t been misunderstood, but judged only on the problems with the films themselves. And done so with the assumption that only the Star Warsmovies need to be seen to understand the universe.

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