Originally posted by: Jumpman

That's a matter of opinion, not fact....especially when there are plenty of fans/critics who see plenty of character and plenty of story(more than the Original Trilogy) in the Prequels.

Oh yeah, TPM was ALL about the characters!!! Jar Jar Binks who plays such a huge role in the saga gets more time then ObiWan Kenobi? Do you know why? Because he was the first digital character, and Lucas wanted to show off the technology. Just watch TPM Documentary when Lucas is in the pre-production stages and says point blank about this character Jar Jar, "Jar Jar is the key to the whole thing." He thought Jar Jar would wow people cause he was the first CGI character, but totally forgot to make him remotely interesting or have any depth that is relevant to the saga, he is a bumbling fool who ruins almost every scene he is in, and was SUPPOSE to be funny, but turned out to be anything but.

Meanwhile the key relationship of the whole Saga now, Anakin & Kenobi, takes a back seat til AOTC, and then they are in the movie together for the first 15 minutes, and then the relationship isn't even given any detail til ROTS, when it is too late by then. Anakin/Kenobi relationship should have been fully explored for 3 movies so we actually give a shit when they fight in ROTS, so you can actually care that they are trying to kill each other, but cause Lucas took so long to show their friendship, it just looked like 2 guys going at on Mustafar. Just think of Han/Luke fighting on Mustafar, and then think of Obiwan/Anakin fighting and tell me which one would be more tragic?