I recently suffered thru Ep 3.
Nothing about the prequels was redeemable. The story arc is awful. Unless you consider anakin turning to the dark side is an overall story arc. But that’s something that’s been in place since the original trilogy. Literally everything else about those 3 movies is awful and beyond redemption. Anakin as a child, Midoclorians like WTF was that crap! the entire senate storyline, the entire Padme story, everything about the clones, Yoda, Wookies, Grievous, Duku was awful. The scripts were awful. The pacing is awful. The dialogue is awful. The acting. Dear god the acting is awful. Even Ewan’s inspired performance couldn’t save that tripe.
Portions of the last 20 mins of Episode 3 had potential but by that point the trilogy is so far beyond saving that it ends up being a rotten cherry on top of a 500lb pile of ####.
Nothing can save the prequels. Nothing.
That doesn’t make TFA and TLJ great or anything but let’s not pretend that anything George would have written would be anything other than awful. Not to mention it likely focused a lot on Luke, Leia and Han and Carrie Fischer’s death aside, that never would have worked with a 40 year gap between movies.
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