I watched all of confusedmatthew's movie reviews of the prequels. Confusedmatthew interprets only what is seen on screen as canon, but I think George Lucas intended a lot of the character developement and the story to be interpreted off screen. I think it was just lazy film making, a way to get out of doing "the hard parts". It is not a good way to make a movie and one of the fatal mistakes with the prequels IMO. No matter whether you're a die hard SW fan, know all of the EU stuff, watch all of the TV shows, and collect all the merchandise, or if you're just an average Joe who knows little or nothing about SW, everyone can enjoy the OT and understand the plot. In the prequels, GL almost makes you have to read EU and watch the Clone Wars Cartoon before you understand what is going on. The movies throw you into the world with little explanation and the idea is you're suspose to just become absorbed, it worked in the OT because the OT focused on characters, you were able to suspend disbeleif, but in the prequels, they focus on politics, insult our intelligence and didn't connect with the audience. The PT to me seems like a bunch of ideas linked together in contrived manners. GL was obviously a lot more concerned about incorperating a bunch ideas in the movies rather than making a beleivable, coherant story. There are so many instances where GL put stupid pointless shit from the OT in the PT, it is hard to know where to start. For starters, Anakin building C3P0, that was a horrible idea, Boba Fett in AOTC might have been even worse. The Death Star in AOTC? I would've much preferred a convincing story rather than see so much screen time wasted on a bunch of characters and stuff from the OT poping up in the prequels.