That's what all of us were expecting, Marvolo....Because for years Lucas was saying how the Prequels were going to be so much darker than the originals and all about betrayal and so forth...and how no one was going to like them because they were gonna be so dark...

He got the "no one liking them" part right.

Even the first two Harry Potter films had a darker tone than any of the Prequels. It's a shame.

We're gonna do everything we can, working within the limitations of the material we have, to give it that epic feel it always should have had...That's our goal anyway.

--ID