I admit I was in a hurry when I typed this and my kb is a bit messed up. My argument though is solid.
The prequels were the most looked forward to films of all time. The backstory already had a n outline. It would have been almost impossible to drop the ball here. I mean the anakin skywalker in the clone wars show on cartoon network is more honorable and behaved like a Jedi knight than he is in the films. that's terrible. In the films anakin acts like nothing but a disrespectful spoiled ass hole. From the very first scene in episode 2 he is being a smart mouth disresectful punk to obi wan.
all jokes aside even if you did not know going in he turned into darth vader you would expect this guy to be a bad seed. he never behaves like a respectful jedi. never. he is not likeable in the least. how can you get an emotional attachment to his charcter if you are never even shown him to be a good man or great jedi before he falls to the dark side. there is no fall to the dark side. its basiclly he was an ass hole when he was a jedi and he just turned into an even bigger ass hole as a sith.
anakin should have been shown in the first two films to be like qui gon or luke or charcters like maximus in gladiator charcters we all looked up to and admired and then start to see him fall to the dark side through no fault of his own. then we could have felt sad and felt bad for anakin. but no we didnt get any of that. the prequels were the worst filsm ive ever seen. what good points they had were killed off. qui gon was great. he shouldnt have died. darth maul should have been in all 3. count dooku sucked. qui gon should have been in all3 and for anakins final turn to th dark side in epiosde 3 he should have killed qui gon.
I wont even get into the plot holes the prequels provide. i have a 1982 interview with lucas where he said that luke and leia are 2 and a half yrs old in episode 3. this explains how leia can remember her REAL mother. lucas says leia left to be with her real mom while luke was taken to the lars. why would something like this be left out? it does nothing but cause plot holes. ben telling luke his father wanted him toi have his lightsaber when he was old enough. now we see that didnt happen. ben saying how owen was scared lukle would follow him like anakin did on "some damn fool idealistic crusade" wqhat the hell is he talking about? owen did not even know anakin or ben but for day or two. he said owen wanted anakin to stay home and not get involved. ? again whats he talking about?
its clear all that was back story to eventually be told in the prequels and lucas completly disregarded it for some reason. which makes no sense. wjhat should have been filmed is very clear...owen did not want anakin to get involved in the clone wars (the idealstic crusade ben speaks of) owen did not want anakin to get involved. anakin could have easily of told obi wan while theybwere going off to fight that if he did not aske it back he wanted his son to have his lightsaber....a young leia could have went off to alderan with padme. explaining her remembering her mom. yoda could have been boi wans master....making everything told in the ot make sense.
it doesnt take rocket science to make these films in a way that connected both trilogies. instead though lucas tries to force a square into a circle by changing the ot here and there and cuasing plot holes. in essence making the films suck. this is not the work of good story tellers.