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Thats a really good read, and I kinda agree with about 42 of them! I think that is a testament to Star Wars & ESB, that they were so good, many of us overlook the flaws of ROTJ, and still love it. I still love ROTJ, but that article is dead on, and even though the characters, with the exception of Luke, gave average performances, they are still lovable characters that make the movie enjoyable to watch 22 years later. I look at it as closure to my childhood being 11 years old when I saw ROTJ in the theater.
Now I correlate ROTS, the same way with ROTJ. It was the only prequel I liked, or I guess enjoyed, and the only one that felt like the OT. But as the first two movies in the OT helped ROTJ, the first two in the PT actually hurt ROTS. By 2005, many fans had had enough, and were burned twice, and ROTS had to be perfect by then, and Lucas has demonstrated the perfect movie hasn't existed since 1980. Plus I feel ROTS is so much better than TPM & AOTC, you start to wonder if the first two were even worth it, and should the PT been ROTS story for 3 movies? Overall, because of the failure of the first two movies, and even though I like ROTS, although the turn scene is dreadful, the trilogy overall doesn't work for me, and I have wiped it from my memory faster than C-3PO had his wiped. But if Lucas had made 3 PT movies with ROTS quality for me, I would probably feel alot different.