I may be bashed quite a bit for this, but... the whole Star Wars Saga kinda sucks.
Don't get me wrong. I am a Star Wars fan. Yes, I started with TPM, but it appealed to me as an 8-year old kid. Still, I was instantly hooked, found the OT as fast as I could, and... Yeah, I loved Star Wars Saga. And I do still, and I can still rewatch movies over and over again. But now, I... I see flaws in every episode.
I will not go into much detail, because it would require too much time to wrtie everything I think.
What I want to say is that Star Wars story looks so great on paper. But realisation to life is not really all that great.
Even ESB. ESB is undeniably the best of the OT episodes. But, while rewatching it the other day, I thought that C-3PO... reminded me of Jar-Jar. Oh my, he was annoying. And I swear I wanted to kill him when he talked during the freezing Han in carbonite scene. One can say that, well, 3PO should be annoying, it's his character... Bullshit. He was a lot more likeable in ANH than in ESB (and if we take parallels with Jar-Jar, he was more likeable in Ep2 than in Ep1... that doesn't mean I like Jar-Jar very much, by the way).
Episode 4 is very slow-paced and I feel bored while watching it. Don't dare anybody start with some 'old movie/different times/I'm too young' stuff. Blues Brothers has some issues with pacing, but it kicks ass. 12 Angry Men is an old film and there people just talk in one friggin' room, but it kicks ass. Back to the Future... well, Back to the Future just kicks ass. Totally. I know BttF is not slow-paced. But Episode 4 is, well, slow.
Episode 6 is poorly structured. How much time does it take to rescue Han? Somewhere like, 35-40 minutes? That's almost half of the movie when nothing practically happens. RotS had Palpatine rescure mission, somewhere 20-25 minutes, half as long as RotJ rescue mission, but it was still kinda long, there was still unnecessary water. Not to mention, Palpatine is totally stupid in RotJ. Prequel Palpatine rocks, really. But RotJ Palpatine is senile.
Just don't think that I'm an OT-basher or something. There are a lot of things I like in the OT. But most of it is from ESB. And as I wanted to say that PT has a lot of totally great stuff too, I realised that most of my favorite scenes are from RotS. So yeah. The only good and well-made Star Wars movies in my opinion are ESB and RotS. Now sue me.
Anyway, there is one thing that bugs me in the whole Star Wars Saga, but in OT mostly. It's turning to the Dark Side/Light Side stuff.
Let's take OT. Just how exactly Vader (and Palpatine) wanted to turn Luke to the Dark Side? In ESB, Vader, like, chops his hand and expects Luke to join him? And in RotJ Palpatine expects to make Luke kill Vader and become his apprentice because... anger makes Luke more powerful? How, how does that exactly work anyway? Luke kills Vader and then goes on a killing spree to kill his friends or something? Vader grants Luke power to rule the galaxy and Luke... agrees? Just like that? And becomes, what, evil? HOW DOES IT WORK?! PT way of joining the Dark Side is much more believable. It took a Palpatine years to earn Anakin's trust and mess up with his head - that, combined with some issues Anakin had, and whoala. And still Anakin's turn to the Dark Side may (and does) seem somewhat forced. And Vader and Palpatine always talk like "You don't know the true power of the Dark Side", "If only you knew the power of the Dark Side", bla-blah. And how does one go back to the Light Side exactly? If a Sith Lord donates money for charity, does he come back to the Light Side? What are these sides anyway?
I really think that RotS could be a lot better movie if it didn't have to tie in with the OT. Firstly, RotS establishes a very good, in my opinion, vision of the sides of the Force (during the Palpatine talk in the Opera) - that light side is, basically, selflessness, and Dark Side is selfishness (even if posed as selflessness). Which is absolutely NOT the same as Good and Evil. Secondly, RotS establishes that the border between the Light and Dark is undefined, which is a very wise thought in my opinion. But at the same time, Anakin just clicks and becomes bad, i.e. EVil, because he has to become Vader the way he is in the most of the OT, i.e. Evil. Some people say that "If only Lucas thought a more believable turn for Anakin to become Vader". My response to them: bullshit. OT has a very poor concept of different sides of the Force, in my opinion. I can't see anyone turning to the Dark Side the OT way. Oh wait. Anakin's click in RotS is exactly what it is - the OT way. And that's what most people didn't like.
Anyway, if anyone's interested, I may take my time some day to write less spountainiously my opinion on OT, PT, Saga as a whole - bad sides of the movies, all of them, good sides of the movies, all of them. If anyone's interested.