Jodie!

No its not. Even ignoring that I'm supposed to accept Hayden Christiansen turned into James Earl Jones, there's simply no logical or coherent connection of the character's personalities between the prequels and originals, beyond "he was a good guy who turned bad". They might as well have thrown C3PO in lava, say 20 years passed, put it in a black suit, and then claimed that was Darth Vader.

I'm AMAZED they didn't do this

NO THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE BECAUSE THEN THERE WOULD BE 2 C3PO'S
THAT'S NOT RIGHT

Growing up, I always assumed that the story of a Jedi going astray and ending up as Darth Vader had motivation more interesting than "my guardian tells me I shouldn't date a posh girl. SCREW HIM AND SCREW THE WORLD!!"

The disappointment for me is that there was no real "fall" for Anakin, just a slide into crappier and crappier behavior. Movie 1 should have been Obi-Wan and Anakin meeting, something like a cop movie with the brash upstart and the more experienced partner learning to respect each other. Movie 2 really needed to be Obi-Wan and Anakin's more mature friendship, with Anakin showcased as a loyal friend and a truly admirable, virtuous guy. Movie 3 should then have been Anakin's virtues being twisted into vices, where maybe he tried to reform the Jedi order by force (har har) and ended up destroying it.

This

A politician goes on vacation with a boytoy to the Riveria. The politician is disgusted with herself for dating someone young enough that she literally babysat him, risking a sandal. Even worse, the child is insecure and needy, trying to compensate for a lack of intellectual engagement with overwrought and petulant whining. But being around the forbidden fruit while wearing scandalous dresses in her expensive summer home makes her feel young and vibrant. She tries to recapture how she felt when she was actually in power and not just a seat-filler in Congress in a job that could be done by a mentally-deficient racial-stereotyped cartoon rabbit-thing.

So my take is that this is Lucas masterfully depicting Berlusconi and a sixteen year stripper named Ivanna at one of his pool parties.

I wasn't going to rate this clip because I wanted to forget its existence until I saw this thread

This was edited into propaganda. It just didn't take much.

Why would anybody NEED to edit anything to make Lucas look bad?

Okay, so I wasn't the only one thinking that.

Meanwhile his internal monologue is probably just a long list of pod racing statistics designed to keep himself from shooting a load all over the inside of his Jedi robes.

But there's no little kid in Episode II.

There was really only about 3 hours of story in the 7 hour prequel running time. The developments in Ep. 1 could have been reduced to a title crawl, Ep. 2 should have only taken 20 minutes TOPS to introduce a war, then hack out all the LITERAL Faust crap in Ep. 3.

Really the thing that sunk them was spending so much time on the stupid clone wars. It's a war of faceless clones vs robots and we knew from the start both are controlled by the villain so who really cares? The entire trilogy didn't have an actual crises until less than an hour to go in the last movie. A better script could have done wonders with that part.

@Joel I can't hate a child for not knowing how to act.

@Fabio I wish some of the action from the clone wars cartoon had been in the movies. The only decent lightsaber battle we've had in any of the live-action movies was at the end of Episode I.

Anyway, those are my opinions and it's cool if you disagree with them.

@ Nikon: I was just sarcastically quoting RedLetterMedia.

Hey! A half-naked Hayden Christensen isn't *that* bad to look at! Episode 1 didn't have that.

I was 11 at the time. Don't judge me.

Episode 1 had Jar Jar, so it's definitely better. Episode 2 is unwatchable.