Case and point:
It wasn't enough to have Anakin born on Tatooine and have a senario where he was inspired to go on some idealistic crusade (clone wars) with Kenobi...instead we have a plot where Anakin is turned into a 9 year old immaculate concepted slave boy with a high midichlorian count, who by chance creates 3PO in his spare time.. Obi-Wan never discovers him, and only trains Anakin in the first place because of an oath to his dying master, after Anakin is trained as a Jedi he falls in love with a human wardrobe malfunction called a Padme' and ingages in romatic dialogue that makes a Harrlequin novel look like romeo and Juliet, because of this love for Padme, and because his mother was killed by Sandpeople, he is quick to turn into a child serial killer for the chance of saving his wife, who by the way dies from the lost will to live after popping out twins...Kenobi then delivers baby Luke to a couple he's never met before, and rides off on an eeopie....
This baffles me too. It's like Lucas watched the OOT and said, "ok...it's obvious what has to happen in the prequels when you watch these movies, so everyone is assuming that this stuff is gonna happen. What I'm going to do is do the EXACT opposite and everyone will think it's great."
The story to the prequels should have been the easiest damn thing to write. That should have been the easiest thing to develop in the whole damn trilogy.
I just feel like Lucas played a really bad joke on us. Bad in quality most of all.