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You are right, Mr Ghostface. I think it's a bit of a tricky situation: Star Wars is so ingrained in popular culture that it doesn't seem really necessary to introduce anything in the prequels. I don't think the movies are worse for it, but on the other hand, Lucas does insist 1-6 is the story.
Also, characters like Yoda and Jango Fett are just thrown into the story. In the prequels, their characters are who they were in the stories that technically haven't happened yet. They are not characters of their own.
And how about an in-movie explanation? Does Jar-Jar know what a Jedi or the Force is? He doesn't question it, because the audience doesn't have to question it, but does he, as a character, know? Anakin seems to know, but does he know who Yoda is?
I understand that (re)introducing everything would be tedious, but it might also have been a nice way to learn something more about the things we already knew, and thus fleshing out the story/characters/world of Star Wars.