Sorry to go back to this, but the prequels not being very good is a common pop-cultural theme. They are often used as an example of a bad movie. Take this for example, In one episode of house M.D. House wondered how deep was the awareness of a man who has been in a vegetative state for ten years and asks him, "Pick up scraps of conversations? You have the vague sense that the hospital administrator dresses like a trollop? Or that the new 'Star Wars' movies were a disappointment?"