Erich having read your article it does raise some intresting points about the character of Jabba. I does not make any sense that a crime lord would be doing his own dirty work when he has workers to do the job for him. While I do not think that prequel trilogy sucks, I do however think it is flawed and this is shown mostly in TPM. The whole ending of TPM was a mess as it kept on flipping to several different stories going on a the same time. Had it only concentrated on one of these it would have probably improved the film quite a bit.