Is this why people hate the Star Wars prequels?!

[Extra-Ordinary]

I watched that episode at an age where I didn't really understand what he was saying.
Although, the age I'm talking about is an age when I was having a difficult time understanding *anything anybody* was saying, it most mostly "When does that guy with the double-lightsaber show up?"
Anyway. Now that I understand it, I still don't really care for it, I just never took to the "it's in our blood" mumbo-jumbo. To me, that actually makes *less* sense than this magical mystery power that only Jedi can use.
As for my opinion of the films, I always use the same phrase: Are they as good as 4, 5, and 6? No, not by a long shot. Are they as bad as everyone says they are? No, not by a long shot.
Especially not Episode 1. Come on, that Darth Maul fight was crazy awesome.

 

[Veylon]

The first one contained numerous nested plot holes that weren't obvious on the face of it, but ate away at the subconscious, leaving the movie to feel wrong. Naturally, the blunders that were obvious soaked up much of the acrimony. Jar Jar, midiclorians, acting problems, etc. became the scapegoats for the scripting problems that dragged every onscreen dialogue and action sequence down into meaninglessness.

Case in point:

Come on, that Darth Maul fight was crazy awesome.

Maul could've killed both Jedi instantly and the Anakin still would've destroyed the TF ship and won anyway. They could've killed him instantly and it wouldn't have accomplished anything for their side. The fight (as awesome as it was) didn't matter the tiniest bit to anyone who wasn't personally taking part.

Sadly, it could easily have mattered had Maul been guarding some sort of shield generator that the Jedi had to take down in order for an attack on the orbiting ship to take place. In that case, the fight would have tension because we'd be worried that they wouldn't finish in time.


Essentially, TPM was just another bad movie with oodles of special effects dollar ladled onto an unsound plot foundation and gooed together with wooden acting. But a movie isn't remembered based on how bad it actually was, but by how it compared to our expectations. And TPM was supposed to be the BEST MOVIE EVER! So we end up with probably the widest gap in cinematic history.

The fans basically threw the franchise under the bus after that bit of disillusionment. Attack of the Clones moved up the quality to lackluster and Revenge of the Sith improved on that by being average. But nobody in the fandom cared any more. Lucas moved on make various small strange changes to the original trilogy that served no purpose except to further rile up the fanbase.

 

[Instant K4rma]

I despised the prequels because the franchise lost its wit and humanity. The prequel films felt so wooden and devoid of actual life. All of the writing was so dramatic and emotionally empty, and the actors, while being normally talented people (barring Hayden Christensen), delivered their dialogue in such a robotic and lifeless manner. The whole prequel trilogy felt so empty to me.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

The prequels had some issues because honestly Lucas is terrible at dialog some of the best dialog in Star Wars was either unscripted or written in by a different director who noticed what a character said in script didn't seem to fit said characters personality.

Thats the biggest issue I have with the prequels. Yes, Jar Jar is very fucking annoying, but hey he is just like an aquatic ewok so can't really complain.

Honestly, I really wouldn't want to be in those theaters back when "Return of the Jedi" first went to theaters. To see the emotional uproar when the audience watched as an army of teddy bears defeat quote "an entire legion of [the Emperor's] best troops."