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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

If people can be gaslit into strongly thinking otherwise, you can get them to believe anything. The prequels have all of the flaws, or "flaws" in case of things that aren't really problems but just things that people don't like, in spades, to the extent that it's usually worse in the prequels, compounded by worse performances and worse visuals (TPM is the only one that stands out for its visuals). I think people like the idea of the prequels more than that of the sequels, but that's gleaned from filtering the actual movies out and further distilling them down to a narrow and calculated abstract concept, and propped up as a defining and decisive victory in the movies' favor.

There's also a lot of revisionist history due to The Clone Wars and other Clone Wars-era content fixing a lot of what people didn't like about the PT.

Anakin and Darth Maul especially are characters that got propelled thanks to the cartoon.