Stop blaming Lucas for the ineptitude of lousy "actors". He didn't make Christensen, Lloyd or Portman stink - they do it themselves. Was Alec Guinness bad in the OT? Is Ewan MacGregor bad in the PT? Is Liam Neeson bad? How about Ian McDiarmid? Christopher Lee? Hell, Ray Parks isn't a Shakespearian thespian, and yet he was five hundred times better in TPM than all MTV-made "stars" are in any film they infect.