The politics was exactly what gave the prequels depth.
You mean the illusion of depth? Also the politics are so badly written not only does it kill the pacing anyone with a brain in that universe would see after a while that Palpatine was behind everything even before ROTS.
Everyone shits on midichlorians but midichlorians are a more scientific aspect of the force.
There didn’t need to be a scientific aspect to The Force. The Force is just The Force.
Where the OT presents a purely mystical force.
And that’s the way it should have stayed.
The OT has clear cut black and white heroes and villains, the prequels subvert that so it’s difficult to know if anyone is good at all.
Other than Count Dooku who could you say this about?
By cutting straight to the action and only action forever, TFA makes itself extremely shallow. Kylo Ren literally wants to be evil? Puh-lease, even saturday morning cartoon villains have more depth than that.
Not only is he a good person literally willing himself to be evil he is also hell bent on furthering the legacy of his Grandfather. Also there’s more to a character’s depth than his/her motivations.
It’s like a five year olds conception of what grey morality is, just switch black and white around, that’s interesting right? No.
That’s not grey morality at all. If Kylo Ren were doing all this to destroy all Dark Siders in the galaxy then it would be grey. I wouldn’t exactly know what to call what Kylo is doing but it isn’t grey.