Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I just think it all comes down to wether or not you are being open minded about the prequels. If you are open minded then you can roll along with all the things the prequels introduce without rolling your eyes, but if you go in with the mindset that Lucas shouldn't be adding anything to what we had in the classic trilogy, then anything new that Lucas introduces suddenly becomes "uneccesary, pointless exposition".
I just think it all comes down to wether or not you are being open minded about the prequels. If you are open minded then you can roll along with all the things the prequels introduce without rolling your eyes, but if you go in with the mindset that Lucas shouldn't be adding anything to what we had in the classic trilogy, then anything new that Lucas introduces suddenly becomes "uneccesary, pointless exposition".
That's not fair at all. I would say that it is possible for someone to watch all six films with an open mind and still come to the conclusion that the exposition in the PT is much more obvious and clumsy than the exposition in the OOT. It's not just OOT fans that regard the PT as poorly made films, you know...