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 5 points 8 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.

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