There was really no way Lucas could have done this trilogy well without spoiling something, it is just too hard, and too much stuff would left out that ties it up. But that is the whole point why it should be watched 4-6, 1-3, the PT is a simple backstory, and if it were better, it would work great with the OT.

I get very annoyed with the PT gushers now who say that new fans have to watch it 1-6 now, when 99% of SW fans who finally saw Episode III saw it the other way around. I say to them, "4-6, 1-3 produced the the greatest set of movies at the box office of a 6 movie saga, and now you don't want anyone to see it that way?"

The PT is not supposed to have huge revelations, it is just suppose to make you look at the OT in a better way, and make you say, "So that is what is behind that certain plot point all years, that is actually pretty interesting now."

But by Lucas giving all these petty tie ins of Jango Fett, Anakin making C-3PO, and Yoda having good relations with the wookies, it only cheapened the OT, cause it looked like he was running out of ideas. Lucas was probably like, "Well I don't know who originally owned C-3PO, let me have Anakin build him!" "I have to get this wookie planet in one of the movies, let me have Yoda go there." These things bring zero depth to the saga, and make it just plain stupid.

Stuff like the rise of Palpatine as a politican to Emperor, that is interesting! I never pictuerd The Emperor that way, and now that he rose to power, instead of just seizing power gives depth to the OT now for ROTJ. Take away Jango Fett and that stupid tiein, but the Clone Troopers being on the republics side, and Kenobi flying to Kamino to see them make the clones, gives an added depth to the OT. I now think at the end of ANH, that Vader goes right to Kamino to see how many clones he is going to need to rebuild the Empire, before he gets yelled at by The Emperor after the Death Star is blown up.

There are so many missed opportunities at EXPANDING the OT, and that is what a backstory does, we already know what happens, but we don't how it happens. Now we just have this small universe that almost everyone knows everyone, and it has driven me to see them as two trilogies that I don't want to connect.

Watching the series 1-6 means you are watching a linear story, and these 6 movies laid out by Lucas is by no means linear.