The worst thing about all of ROTS is how Lucas attempted to tie everything into a neat bow to lead into the original trilogy, almost as though Revenge of the Sith ended just a few minutes before A New Hope began. It is pretty insulting to think that the audience wouldn’t be able to understand that maybe Padme died sometime between the two trilogies when Leia was young, but she had to die on screen so dummies wouldn’t wonder why Natalie Portman wasn’t in the OT. Same thing with Obi Wan chatting with Qui Gon’s ghost because apparently everyone needed to know how Obi Wan learned to be a ghost. I could go on and on.
Exactly!
It may be unfair to blame ROTS for the mistakes of the previous two episodes, which caused the majority of the story to be bumped into the third instalment. However, Episode 3’s big mistake is that it doesn’t serve as an ending to the prequel trilogy. The OT was a story with a beginning, a middle and a conclusion. ROTS doesn’t provide an ending. I don’t need a happy ending, really, just an ending of any kind. Instead the film ends mid-air and the story is to be concluded 20 years later, picking up exactly where the PT left off. I mean, even TPM didn’t show us everything that would lead up to AOTC and AOTC didn’t cover the transition to ROTS in great detail, but for some reason ROTS needed to lead straight into ANH. And quite poorly so.