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For me, the prequels simply didn't live up to what Obiwan described, quite eloquently in Star Wars, when talking with Luke. The way he got misty-eyed about the past was quite different than what the PTs portrayed. Instead of some enlightened period, we got Jar Jar stepping in shit, pretentious Jedi, and politics as usual.

The devil's in the details. For example, there was a poetry with Luke cutting off Vader's hand in ROTJ, seeing it was mechanical, and it dawning on him that he was in danger of turning into the same as he contemplated his own mechanical hand. In the PT, Vader got his hand and legs cut off, and left to burn and die a painful slow death by Kenobi. It just crapped on that ROTJ moment, and showed Kenobi to be a sadistic asshole to boot.

The other is this "backstory" crap. Why is everyone involved already? Chewie, R2D2, C3PO, Boba/Jango Fett, and Jabba did NOT need to be there. Doing that just shriunk the SW universe down rather than expand it. But then again, the PT is nothing without endless references to the OT.

The PTs just destroyed whatever images the OT established about that time period.