Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Not watching them might have been preferable to you, but you can't have prequels that don't somehow tie into what happens in the classic trilogy.

Without seeing how the Republic becomes the Empire is really just showing one side of the coin, that dictatorship is bad. If you don't show how democracy can rot from within and become a dictatorship "with thunderous applause" it makes things more black and white that life really is.

It's nice, but it's very 2 dimensional. I prefer the depth and insight to be found by showing both the yin and the yang to the situation.

See, I find this idea really stupid for a few reasons.

A) The history of the star wars universe and the Republic itself have been around for 1000s of years. The empire was now around for 20-some odd years. Rather just a tiny blip on the radar.

B) Far too much time was wasted on the republic turning into the empire. Yes, it adds a new element into the mix, but it eats up valuable time that could have been used for far more crucial situations. Yeah, Anakin and Padme fall in love in little over an hour, and then lets spend 30 seconds on Anakin turning into Vader, which is (or should have been) the whole point of the fuckin PT, but instead we need to waste countless minutes on Palpatine fooling various cgi senators.

C) Some things are better being left a mystery. That's one of the my major complaints. Not every single thing needs to be explained. In the OT, something was just there - take it or leave it. Instead everytime someone speaks in the PT, they are explaining what is going on.

"Artoo - what is it? You have a message from Obi-Wan?"

"Buzzdroids"!

"Anakin - you have to take out such and such"

"Those are the forward stabalizers!"