Even Lucas’s AOTC screenplay is less dumb. It’s saying A LOT…
I don’t know, I find the whole assassination plot in AOTC to be some of the dumbest writing in SW period. Nothing in the ST comes close to that one for me.
Palpatine’s return seems a pretty good candidate for me. He’s back, because…reasons, just borrow a vague line from ROTS to explain how he escaped blowing up in a big blue fireball, and then having whatever remained be scattered across the Endor system, when the Death Star II exploded. Then there’s the fact, that Palpatine’s return is clearly a response to RJ killing off Snoke, and doesn’t make any sense in the context of the ST. So, I personally don’t see how the assassination plot is in any way worse than many of the narrative short cuts taken in ROTS.
I hear you. I just could never get over the…Palpatine gets Sidious to hire Jango to hire shapeshifter lady to use some droids to send bugs to kill the one girl he needs to help turn Anakin to the dark side. I guess old palps was banking on Padme always surviving attacks or Anakin always saving her and that would…bring them closer together? I’m confused even writing it now. But…maybe that’s why I like TROS…I’m simple 😉