skyjedi2005 said:
The prequels were always going to suck the writing was already on the wall in 1997 with the special editions. The prequels would be made to fit the special editions and not the original trilogy as originally released.

As a concept they suck, they are tonally and thematically different. Lack real heroes to root for, or any magic of any kind. They also lack emotion and when you left the theater you did not feel as though you were taking part in viewing something special or being uplifted like 1977's Star Wars.

Lucas should have moved ahead with the story after Return of the Jedi. Still now that Star Wars has become a shit kiddy series and is basically an advertisement for a product line, and become souless and sterile and safe no longer a daring series breaking new ground.

Hear hear!

Once he'd done what he'd done in the SE you could tell he'd lost connection with Star Wars, lost sight of what Star Wars was, lost understanding of it. Once that was the case he couldn't make new Star Wars films that worked as Star Wars. And what he added in the SE was shallow and weak, which was a hint that what was to come in the prequels was going to be shallow and weak.

TPM was the best of them, the most natural and human and heartfelt of the PT and it had Liam Neeson doing a great job. But it was still a weak shallow film. The other two aren't worth the scrapings out of the bowl of a toilet. Feelingless crap. And so uninvolving. With characters you don't care about -Ewan's Kenobi was the best of them and I still didn't find myself feeling much for him. Those two films were genuinely awful. Terrible insincere unfeeling things. And all the prequels managed to simultaneously dumb down Star Wars while making it more pretentious.