I just rewatched the prequels. Sure, they can be criticized but they do tell a rather cohesive story about a dying democracy's inability to deal with emergent totalitarianism, while also exploring Anakin Skywalker as a character.

The new trilogy starts with ideas that might be interesting to investigate but then completely fails to do so.

[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 6 points 11 hours ago

The dialogue is the problem with the Prequels. It looks good, the stories track and all nearly fit into the wider Star Wars universe, it's just that George Lucas has no idea how actual humans communicate. There was also an absolute tsunami of 3rd party content around the Prequels from comics, video games, YA novels, TV shows, and toys that cemented the Prequels into the cultural Zeitgeist that Disney was completely unable to replicate.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

"a rather cohesive story about a dying democracy's inability to deal with emergent totalitarianism"

Which is why the Prequel Trilogy regained popularity given the horrors we're living through.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

The Prequels were during Bush II's wars. They were relevant then as well.

[–] fascicle@leminal.space 18 points 14 hours ago

Plus Darth Maul is awesome

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Another problem with the sequel trilogy is the few things they did try to explore were already done better by the existing films. The other trilogies really hammered home the flaws of the Jedi order. Rich people play both sides, just like the Lando.