I always felt like this was what the PT should have been too. It's not perfect, being episodic some episodes are better than others, but the character interactions and the dramas are generally involving and dramatic and handled okay, and really, that's the least I was ever asking for, and certainly better than most of the PT. I think if Episode I and II were more like this, the PT would be on the OT level overall. Some of the episodes arcs in this series are just so much better than the PT that it really makes those films look bad. Okay, so the episodes are simpler than the PT films, what do you expect, they are 22 minute saturday morning cartoons, but within those parameters they accomplish quite a bit more than Episodes I and II even attempted in terms of character and drama, and thats not insignificant. Salvaging the PT story/characters is no easy feat considering where Lucas left them, but the series does it fairly admirably, which just goes to show that even with the silly plot Lucas devised, it is execution above else that makes the difference.