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I found this stupid article when looking it up:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/05/star-wars-why-does-everyone-hate-the-prequels.html

He talks about how the original movies were based on good vs. evil whereas the prequels are about a trade dispute. That's about the dumbest argument I've ever heard. Of course the prequels are about good vs evil too.

The prequels just set up a much more comprehensive universe and showed us the basis behind the war. Sure, sometimes less is more, but I'm not understanding that as a knock against the prequels. I really like seeing Coruscant, the Senate, and the Jedi Council. It's a living, vibrant world instead of a mostly desolate universe that we had in the original movies.

It's almost like a reward. Star Wars was a comparatively low-budget film, so while George Lucas wanted to make a huge, galaxy sprawling epic, there was only so much he could do at the time. So he based it mainly on a desert planet and we had to imagine all the other exciting worlds out there. With the prequels, they actually gave it to us. So many worlds and interesting alien species.

Plus there's a lot of really exciting shit that happens. First of all the lightsaber duels completely blow away anything in the originals, yet in this article the guy actually whines that there's too much standing around talking about taxes instead of fighting with lightsabers. Get fucking real. They use them a lot more in le prequels than the originals.

Then there's so many exciting sequences. The pod race is epic. When those centipede things are trying to kill Padme in her sleep and Obi Wan just jumps right through the window and it leads to this amazing chase sequence. That's so good and it can't be denied.

Oh but Jar Jar is annoying and Anakin is a brooding teen so let's ignore all the good stuff.