CHARACTERS WE CAN LOVE AND ROOT FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucas never sold me on any of the characters in the PT, except for ObiWan Kenobi, and when their fates are met at the end of ROTS, I felt nothing for them. Anakin should have been likable in AOTC, not whiny. He should have been a really likable guy that had these issues that many great men possess. Lucas made him whiny in AOTC, and I never gravitated to him, I never really cared about him, other than how he became Darth Vader. When he was finally lying there legless on Mustafar yelling ObiWan I was saying, "Thank god, put him out of his misery!"
Padme was another character I never really cared about. In TPM she is either in disguise or just talking monotone with no personality at all. In AOTC, she just falls in love with Anakin I guess for his looks, and by the time she dies in ROTS I could have cared less.
Lucas never made me care for the Jedi either in the PT, and when Order 66 happens, it is just a bunch of nameless jedi getting killed. Lucas should have picked 4-5 Jedi during the PT and just focus on them in small parts. And they should have been the jedi killed in Order 66, so you get somewhat emotional. All I remember about Order 66 is that they killed the Conehead Guy and the Green Chick with the nice body.
TPM should have been about Anakin, Padme, and Kenobi, and no one else. That movie should have been total character development minus QuiGon, minus Jar Jar, and minus all the CG nonsense that Lucas was obsessed with. The purpose of TPM was to show that Anakin & Kenobi were great friends, and Anakin was falling in love with Padme, and there should have been a 20 minute flashback of Kenobi finding Young Anakin and that would dispel 2 hours of Jake Lloyd.
TPM & AOTC should have been condensed to one movie, and ROTS should have elevated to two movies, because that is the red meat of the story, and that is why TPM & AOTC feel so out of place in the saga, and ROTS feels so rushed when watching it 1-6.