The sad part is that not so long ago, George Lucas was my hero, even after the prequels, I never had any particular problem with them (I actually loved Episode I when I was a child) and then when I grew up and realized they weren't so great, no problem there, I don't need sequels (or prequels) to films I like (I love Forrest Gump and Amelie and I wouldn't want anyone to make sequels to those films), so I wasn't really sad that the SW prequels weren't to my liking, I could simply choose not to watch them. George Lucas was still my hero for giving me some of my favourite films of all time. The problem came when he stared actively trying to take these films away from me as I became a film and home video enthusiast and started really enjoying high quality presentation of films.