Two of the reasons the prequels are virtually unwatchable if you can ignore Lucas bad direction and poor scripts, is that David Tatterstall is a horrible cinematographer in my honest opinion, and ben burrt a horrible film/video editor, except of course for the film he won an award for special effects.
Other than that what can i say i like about the prequels some of Williams music but not very much of it is as iconic as the oot, the saber duel in menace is a bit overdone at least ray park is a real martial artist/gymnast, skilled in kendo. The duels in II and III were laughably bad.
Jake Lloyd is almost bearable in Episode 1 and overly criticized once you get to the transition worst actor possibly ever to grace a star wars film, hayden christensen. Jake at least came off a precocious kid and dreamer, and was likeable nothing likable about hayden's version of Skywalker.
Unless being a whiny emo bitch and treasonous to the Jedi order are noble traits.