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Blightzkrieg posted...

Padme dying of a broken heart felt horribly lazy especially given how contrived everything had been up until then. I think the needlessly complex story with the films feeling disconnected from one another was the biggest problem (why was the clone war completely irrelevant to everything that happened?).

To address the other issues.

The acting was questionable but I think there are a few actors who gave good performances in the films. Admittedly I'm not really a film critic.

The dialogue was mostly fine aside from the romance scenes.

Use of CGI was...dodgy and it doesn't hold up well. I could see that being a real issue for some people. Admittedly for its time it was I think the best out there, but Lucas went overboard. I also think in general today people are way too picky about CGI quality, as long as it doesn't completely take you out of the film you can suspend your disbelief.

Jar Jar was only in one film and I don't think he was that big a deal. Just a poorly executed neo C-3PO (which is weird cause C-3PO was also in the film).

If Darth Maul had lived it wouldn't have mattered because he had no character. Sure, he looked cool, but I think Grievous, Jango and Dooku were also great designs. Character design wasn't really a problem with the prequels.

C-3PO in TPM was pointless pandering but he wasn't even the most egregious example. That definitely goes to Jango. And if he wasn't in these films, we'd have wound up with Jar Jar permanently. The new films are filled with this stuff as well. I don't think it's an issue.

Midichlorians don't matter. They get brought up like twice and Lucas backpedalled like hell after that. If TLJ goes with this grey Jedi stuff they're hinting with that will be a way bigger and way worse retcon than midichlorians could ever hope to be.

Anakin's character was kind of shit. And this is where a lot of the other problems kind of tie together, from the bad acting, to the dialogue, to the questionable story that has little to do with Anakin but still has to wind up tying together to him somehow which leads to a big mess. Of the options presented, Anakin is definitely the biggest problem, because he's the main character and he's a fucking trainwreck.

Loved him in TCW cartoon though.