But many people online are arguing now that all three prequels are just copying the formula from ROTJ because Lucas saw more dollar signs from that film than from ESB. Compare Jedi with Episode I and you get uncanny resemblances: Gungans are Ewoks, the four-part climax replaces the triple climax, the podrace sequence is a bigger version of the speeder bike chase, the middles of both films grind to a halt, Lucas doubling down on exposition from the last film, and CGI replacing the muppets.
How in the fuck does a franchise go from unable to do anything wrong, to getting absolutely nothing right in the space of two years ?!?!