xhonzi said:

I think that was my pont. (I think.) That the part of the story that is ?good? is reduced to half an hour or so. I think the way Palpatine manipulates the galaxy in the Prequels is actually rather well done... but that seems to be the focus of the PT and not "The Adventures of Anakin Skywalker."

If you threatened me with a blaster to my head, then I'd admit that the Palpatine manipulates the galaxy was my favorite idea of the prequels. And this idea was actually pretty well treated in the EU novels between the movies (I think one was called Labyrinth of Evil or something like that). I'd actually watch a film series about how Sidious is always one step ahead of the Jedi. In the books, the Jedi weren't so naive.

The biggest problem in the prequels is Anakin's turn to the Dark Side. Lucas's idea that 'attachment' is the root to the dark side seems philosophically problematic. What happened to "Anger...fear...aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice."?