I liked the movie overall, easily the best out of the three. I just felt like so much was squeezed into this last movie, everything happened so quickly. I felt like episode II could of taken on some of this story and explained things in more detail. I've always felt that we never really got to know the characters as much as we could of, especially Anakin. The story is what makes a movie, not CGI effects and pointless battle scenes. I think the average story and poor dialogue have hurt the movies through out. I don't know if Lucas' ego was in the way, or his attitude was they're MINE only, I will write and direct them myself. He should of hired other writers to help him with his scripts, telling him what's pure cheese and just simply giving him better ideas and dialogue. He's nothing but a cognitive creator with a good imagination, but can hardly direct and definitely could not write himself out of a wet paper bag. Don't get me started on Midi-chlorians ...

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*

A few things that bothred me:

Dark Lord Sidious explained that his teacher was so strong with the dark side of the force, he had the ability foresee and protect his loved ones from that danger. Which kind of leads me to my point, just tell Darth Vader she died in child birth, not the whole greif thing, or that he had killed her. That way, he would of had more anger towards Obi-wan (and the good side of the force) for interfereing and preventing him from saving her life. The new Darth would of felt more remorse, helplessness and anger not being able to protect her with his new sith powers. It would of further strengthened his belief that the dark side of the force was stronger and could of prevented her death. Maybe it was done the way it was to prove that the dark side leads to anger, anger that resulted in the love of his life being killed by his own hands, which ultimately was the reason he went back to the good side of the force. He realized his choice caused her death?

I liked the first breath you hear from Darth, pretty cool. I heard a few snickers in the audience when Darth was released from the table he was being worked on, his frankstein like walk looked odd, but I can understand him getting use to his new legs. His enraged, "NOOOO" was a little corny, not the cool and calm Darth I'm use to, but I guess that could be explained because of his rage, maybe his age? I guess I just wanted more Darth overall at the end, or at least more dialogue between him and Sidious about the new Death Star.

By the way, does it take 30 years to construct a Death Star? From Star Wars to Jedi, I don't think it was a 30 year difference. Star Wars reffered to the Death Star as being a new threat, if I'm not mistaken.

Unfortunately I think the legacy of these prequels will be:

Good, but not great, they could of been better.

Maybe over the years we've become desensitized. When Star Wars and the rest of the trilogy was released in the late 70's early 80's there was nothing like it. Now we see these kind of effects over and over ... and overdone. But in the end, I think a weak story and poor dialouge is what truly hurt these movies.

By the way, did anyone get a little magazine called "Flick" with their tickets? Once you open the first page it gives you a URL called: ThankyouGeorge.com I'll thank him for the OT then thank him for a "nice try" on the prequels.

-Seiji