Burdokva said:

...am I the only one bothered at how colorful the battles of the prequels, especially the opening to ROTS look like?

Couldn't agree more. When talking about George Lucas one could say that CG is a gateway effect...it leads to all kinds of other silliness. He seemed to think that just because he COULD do anything on a whim, that he SHOULD. The minute anything was being done in CG it seems like it just became Avatar....pretty colors, just because. There definitely ARE some scenes that called for more color (the opera house for example).....and it IS a time of greater prosperity and luxury, but not every bloody thing needed to be highly saturated in bright colors. The speeder chase in AOTC suffers from this same problem IMHO.....and many of the sets....because they were ALL being extended in CG, only the bare minimum was created in actual physical form....and they took on these ridiculous colors simply because they were being added in digitally at a later time.