read part I and part II of this article series, if you want.

In this article I am going to chain smoke the SWU properties and you are going to read the haze coming out of my mouth.

prequel trilogy

A naive Canadian boy and a gullible Scottish guy are leading this. They are good though. Especially the Scottish one.
There is Natalie Portman of age 18 who doesn’t have to cut school to be on Letterman’s anymore.
There is Liam Neeson after saving many Jews from the fascists, and before saving his own daughter from the Albanian mafia, not able to save himself from Darth Maul.
3D CGI is not as blasphemous to me as it is to some folk, but the technology was obviously not matured enough, and it does look bad compared to the hand crafted models of the original trilogy.
Jar Jar’s alleged “comedy” is as annoying as it has been mocked.

Though we have to give it to George Lucas when it comes to the story. Here we have the origin story of the ultimate villain of the original trilogy, who is also family with the leading role heroic siblings. It’s such a hard task to put all these pieces together in a logical and believable manner. What does it take to convert “the Chosen One”, the best of them Jedi all, to the killing machine Sith Lord the whole world watched on the screen two decades ago? What kind of tragedy, what a genius work of constant manipulation should take place so that this extreme twist of morality happens and everybody watching is still on-board with the idea? In my opinion: He pulled it off just fine. (unlike HBO, whose Mother of Dragons snapped out of the blue)