Originally posted by: Windexed
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. What?

Originally posted by: Windexed
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. Yes, we did. The story of Star Wars is a story of a good man who became evil and then found redemption set against the backdrop of a democracy that turns into a dictatorship until democracy was restored. The whole story -is- important.

Originally posted by: Windexed
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?" Oh my god, they explained that a message came from Obi-Wan? It would have been so much better if they never said who the message was from. We could have assumed it was whoever we wanted if they hadn't explained that plot point, now we have to accept who Lucas says sent the message.Originally posted by: Windexed
"Buzzdroids"!

Oh my god, they told us what they were called? That leaves nothing to the imagination!Originally posted by: Windexed
"Anakin - you have to take out such and such"

It seems they didn't do too good a job explaining this, I don't even know what you are reffering to.Originally posted by: Windexed
"Those are the forward stabalizers!"

The mystery of space flight is now reduced to something no more exotic than a plane here on Earth!

Seriously I would love to hear how any one of these thing you bring up are "explaining" everything.

If you thought that was going overboard, how do you feel about:

"It's from a person of some importance I believe" (Damn, now we can't assume on our own that it was someone of little importance.)

"It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port" (Did we really have to know where one thing was in relation to another?)

"Set your s-foils in attack position" (Noooo, Lucas is conveying information again!)

It's like Lucas won't be happy until he tells the story he's trying to tell! [end sarcasm]