But after AOTC, I felt like it was all over for salvaging the prequels, they forever would be a blackmark on the once proud franchise...I remember thinking how much worse it was than TPM....The love story was complete drivel, the Yoda CG was inconsistant, Obi-Wan's mullet was laughable, the sets looked like they were out of Star Trek TNG series, the Geonosis arena battles were a joke, the droid factory scene was an embarassment, and Cartoony Yoda posing like Crouching Tiger and fighting like Sonic the Hedgehog was so over the top I felt they completely destroyed any credibility the puppet once had.
I didn't hold up any hopes for ROTS, and thought it was OK after I left the theatre, after multiple viewings it's easily the best of the three and about roughly as good as ROTJ In my book.
For all its lame Gungan and droid antics I still think TPM is more faithfull to the OT than AOTC is.