I guess I would say that I had pretty high expectations. These stemmed from the greatness of the OT, and more importantly from the teaser trailer for TPM. I remember the first night we downloaded it, we must have watched it 100 times. I remember guaranteeing the other dudes I was with that if it didn't beat Titanic's box office, I'd eat my keyboard. And well, then TPM came out, and was, you know... I didn't, however, consider it a total failure. Then the DVD came out, and I really fell in love with it (even though I still thought it was crappy).

Then came AOTC. I was willing to give the PT another shot, especially since everyone was shouting about how "George is going eliminate the things he did wrong in TPM". Well, to quote Jeff Goldblum, "he didn't make the same mistakes, he made all new ones". I can't describe it any other way. AOTC was so horrifying that I'm not even remotely interested in Episode III.

Anyway, the bottom line with me is that I expected more. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I honestly believe that given the budget ($100+ million), resources (ILM, THX, ect), acting talent (Samuel Jackson, Ewen McGregor, ect) and especially the source material, the prequels couldn't possibly be worse. There are too many flaws and mistakes to point out one by one, but I think I can cover them in one general complaint, and that is my belief that George Lucas wasn't interested in making the best films possible. I expected more, George.