Following up on my previous reply, episodes 1 and 2 were basically wasted exposition. Could have very easily made the revenge of the sith opening battle the start of the prequel trilogy and extend the timeline/era to 7+ hours for 3 movies.

One of the only consequential happenings in 1+2 was the clone army and that was oddly left entirely unexplained. The Republic just uses a random clone army that the Jedi council said they didn’t authorize and the template is fighting for the other side? Who paid for it? Who trained them? It was a subpar storyline and wasn’t believable in regards to rules of the universe we are used to. I know, it was explained in comics cartoons etc. but something that big deserves more resolution and explanation on screen.