I liked it for several reasons. The first was that it showed the fighting Kenobi could do before getting old. Second, it reminded me of the Emperor getting thrown down the shaft in Return of the Jedi. Also, ever since Empire Strikes Back, I've done my own outline for the story for what the next sequal could or should be. My idea was that Darth Maul would be cloned and the hundreds of clones would go about attacking the Jedi and other important figures like Amadala. This creates the Clone Wars.
<The thing that made the OT so great was that it was this great outer space adventure, but it was happening in a world that is somehow familiar to us. George Lucas has many times mentioned his idea of a "used universe". With the new movies, I never find myself watching something which I think is actually happening, like you do with the OT. That is also a problem with the DVDs. You are buying into the story, and then a big terrible looking CG monster walks by for no reason! (see the Mos Eisley scene in ANH) Good examples of unbelievable scenes are the Gungans vs. The Battle Droids and Anakin and Padme in the droid factory. You feel as though you are watching a computer game and not a movie, and that just isn't how SW should feel.>
I will pretty much totally agree with you on that point. Don't even get me started on the Mos Eisley scenes of the Special Editions of A New Hope. They change the movie so much that it ruins the pleasure of watching the movie. The droid factory scene in Attack was plain awful along with the rest of the movie. I've never seen a real factory look so clean. As for the Gungans vs. Battle Droids, it doesn't completely work, but I don't hate it and I don't think it looks like a video game. I'm usually totally against having CGI characters battle each other because it usually looks stupid and shows a lack of thought in the script. However, by that time, I was emotionally invested in the scene, so I thought it worked. I didn't hate Jar Jar and the rest of the Gungans in Phantom Menace like a lot of people do. Sometimes, he is a little much to take, but so are a lot of people. Now, the end of Attack of the Clones, that was a video game.