RoccondilRinon said:

The lightsabre battle in TPM was thoroughly awesome. One of the most inspired ideas from the Reborn project, IMO, was opening the first film in medias res with that battle. One of the few ways (from the point of view of someone who's never seen the films) to rival the "wow" factor of the actual opening of ANH.

The great thing about the OT when that was all that existed, was that the Star Wars saga at that point, opened with a kick-ass sequence - The Stardestroyer/Blockade Runner chase.

The prequels now give us a slow, meandering sequence to start off the 'whole' saga now. It would have been neat had we been given another great sequence straight from the off, as the 'new' beginning to the saga....if only George had structured his story in such a way.

I'd have loved to have seen a more exciting scene introduce the whole saga from the very start of the end of the 'scroll intro.' ...