GL is a stupid old bastard, that now makes crappy films. When he's not making crappy films, he putting his 'magic' to work on stuff that should have been left alone in it's own little space in time. The guy is a dickhead who has lost his touch, and he's had the spot filled with extra-ego.
Ya know, he could do what he wanted to the first two PT parts, and maybe 100 people would give a damn. "Hey look! This crappy scene used to go for 2 minutes, now it goes for 4 ! Man, all those extra Gunguns screaming "Midiclorians" really flesh the story out". I think for most of us, he could reshoot them with screenplays and script written by a dumber team of monkey's than wrote the screenplays and scripts used, and they couldn't get much worse. They have added nothing to the story (apart from stormtrooper origin) besides a lot of idiotic questions, and now they are having their dumb crap rubbed into the OT. I thought they (PM & ATOC) sucked before, now they just plain reek. Would/could anyone ever sit through the Phantom Menace, and say " Wow! That was great. I could really sit through another 5 of those. " I worked in a sci-fi/comic retail outlet at the time, and sales of Star Wars related goods (previously great sellers for the previous 6 years I'd been there) went thru the floor when PM hit the screens, and it never recovered. People that had collected virtually everything for years just stopped dead.
Just gimme the option to buy the Original Trilogy, as I watched it, faults and all. Its all part of the charm. You can ( and please, do) mess with the Prequel Trilogy all you like, and no-ones gonna say boo, because noone cares. No studio to blame, no budget to blame, no lack of special effects to blame. The buck stops with you George, and you blew it. Now get over it, and stop making the fans you love to hate pay for it.
or do a Spock, and bring out a couple of books...One now called George Lucas :" I am not a dickhead"...then one in a few years , with the benefit of hindsight, George Lucas :" Yeah, OK. I was being a dickhead"