Trying to watch the Star Wars prequel movies...

[Orrex]

5. Christmastime? Didn't EP1 come out in May 1999?

Regardless, I share your view. So much about the prequels was so bad that there's just no getting past it. Apologists then and now have said "yeah but this" and "yeah but that," but in the end they were crap, with Lucas inflicting his full creative control upon all of us.

Darth Maul was solid and should have been the antagonist through the prequel trilogy, and the arc was set up perfectly. After he killed Qui-Gonn, Kenobi's revenge subplot could have spanned three films only to have him realize in the end that revenge is not the Jedi way.

But nope. He gets his revenge 30 seconds later. Nothing to see here.

I could go on and on, but there's no point. Everyone realizes that they were terrible.


Except for that one woman I met in Ohio, a former NASA engineer, whose house is chock-full of EP1 memorabilia, including a distressing amount of Jar Jar swag. Baffling.