The irony of the situation is everything bad said about the films from 77-83 that was not true or based on circumstantial evidence was true of the prequels from 99-05.
I would go even further and add in the 1997 special edition added content and the 2004 added content.
And if malodorous = smells bad. Then that is a perfect criticism of the prequels because star wars episodes 1-3 are big giant piles of shit.