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-The Jedi spend a few minutes talking about how emotionally unstable Anakin is, then decide to send him to a nice private getaway with the woman whose leg he's been busily humping nonstop since he met her, instead of sending someone who is less emotionally attached and/or has more experience. Even in-universe this is seen as a bad idea, as Obi-Wan and Typho see them off while swapping bets about which one will put their hand down the other's pants first. Also worth noting that Padme's security team has now been downgraded to a single Jedi trainee, since the whole Coruscant deal showed that having two Jedi guard her was clearly overkill.

-Obi-Wan eventually makes his way to Kamino, a planet that has been conspicuously deleted from the Jedi archives, and discovers a clone army, ordered in the name of a dead Jedi, paid for by unknown means, and ready for delivery to the Republic just in time for a pan-galactic war to start. That no one in the entire Republic seemed at all bothered by this alarmingly-convenient series of events points to ineptitude on a truly massive scale. Palpatine's entire plot that he's spent decades formulating could have been easily undone by anyone with more than three neurons firing at this point. Instead, despite the clear presence of someone with enormous influence and resources working at cross-purposes to the Jedi and the Republic, no one bothers to follow up on this in the years that the Clone Wars raged, else they might have discovered the secret Jedi kill-code that all the Clones had hardwired into their brains.

-Finally, when Jango flees from Obi-Wan, he heads to Geonosis of all places, despite there being no reason for him being here and every possibility Obi-Wan had bugged his ship. Again, for all the mystique, Jango Fett is clearly terrible at his job and it's frankly astounding that he's trusted as much as he is by all the bad guys.

And that's just the highlights! I could write a fucking book about everything nonsensical that happens in the prequels, and I'm sure other people have. Say what you will about the way some parts of the sequels were sloppily set up - whether that's Abrams failing to really explain where the First Order and Resistance came from or why they have their respective resources, or Johnson being hamfisted with his "running out of fuel" plot - but at least the characters behaved mostly rationally for the circumstances that were set up for them (and in cases where they didn't behave rationally, there was a reason for it and it led to expected ends, rather than the prequels where people make completely nonsensical decisions that somehow work out, because that's what the plot needed to have happen).

I'll never claim that the sequels are without flaw, but to suggest that TLJ is more nonsensical than AotC or TPM is so wrong I'd almost call it falsehood.
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