Filthy Pierre said:
The greatest flaw was starting at the wrong point in the story.
Should of started with Anakin as a Jedi already already trained by Obi and Yoda.
As said in one of the posts it should of started with Episode 3 and have that as Episode 1.
It will lessen the need for Padme and politics of the movies and make Anakin and Obi stronger characters because the movies would be based mostly on them. Luke and Leia could of still been born in Episode 1 and then have Anakin become Vader at the start of Episode 2 and the clone wars begins.
I realise my post goes on more about the story but my main point is starting Anakins story too early.
Imagine if Episode 4 started with Luke aged 10 and the story doesn't get a kick along until he becomes the age he actually was in Episode 4.
I still maintain that it was a mistake to focus too much on Anakin/Obi-Wan etc
We get to learn almost everything we need to know about them in the OT.
The PT would work better as drama if those characters were relatively minor characters and the characters we care about in the first three episodes don't have a zone of certainty around them.
That way people watching them after the OT will not know they are safe or doomed and people watching from the PT through to the OT will not have the plot spoiled from the later episodes.
They need to be in there somewhere but we don't need them to be the main characters any more than we need Mon Mothma and Motti to be the main characters of the OT.
We didn't need to see Yoda at all.