I actually do have a small bit of admiration for some of their attempts at creating a new design aesthetic in the Prequels.

In particular, I’ve always liked the look of this:

It kind of reminds me of a “1950s futurism”.

It looks as if someone from the 1950s envisioned what space ships would look like. Well they’d look like the era’s cutting edge design concepts of course!!!

The thing is, it’s still not Star Wars. It’s a different Galaxy. Ironically (or maybe not), Lucas finally made his Flash Gordon films and tried to cram Star Wars characters and lore into them.