Here's my 2 cents on cgi. I think the problem with it was that George got carried away with it. He was like a kid in a candy store. "Oohhh, instead of having 3 ships, let's have 60 of them!!! And I want 2,000 Wookies in that shot!!! And the ships have to tilt, then swoop, then go under that ship and around, and then do this and that! Oh man, I wish I could have done this in the 70's and 80's!!!! Wouldn't this look GREAT in the original trilogy?!!!! Hey Rick, I need to make a few more OT changes!"

I also think that filming mostly in front of blue and green screens limited the actors' movement and performances. There are just way too many scenes of actors walking slowly, side-by-side delivering wordy conversations and scenes with people sitting still talking. To me, this was one of the biggest gripes I had with the PT. In many ways, the prequels look like stage plays, which is kind of the way they were filmed. I don't know if this is just me or if others felt that way too. The shots just aren't visually exciting and it kind of makes the prequels drag.

I wish there had been more fully built, man-made sets in the PT. I think part of the reason the OT performances were so convincing was that the actors could actually see the worlds that George had imagined. They saw the corridors of the Death Star, the trash compactor, the carbon freezing chamber, etc. I think the feel and pacing of the OT would have been vastly different if they had been filmed in front of blue screens.