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 MWHistorian wrote:
TPM was truly a bad film. The acting was bad. The pacing was bad. The tone was bad and the "plot" was very bad. In fact, the only thing good about it was the special effects. Even the action was bad because we didn't care about the characters enough to be pulled into it. (But Darth Maul was apparently too cool for the movie and had to get killed off. Gotta have more screen time for Jar Jar.)

Even worse is the fact that you can skip it and literally miss nothing of the greater Star Wars history except for a minute or two with JarJar in Ep2 and wonder where he came from. But literally, nothing in TPM matters to the greater "Life, Fall, and Redemption of Anakin/Vader" story at all that you don't get just as well from the other movies.


As for the "Clone Wars", IIRC the way they're portrayed is vastly different than what they were originally envisioned as something significantly different and a much longer conflict, particularly from stuff around before the prequel movies were made.

That and they're constantly called the Clone 'Wars' despite being a single armed conflict as portrayed in the prequels.

 LordofHats wrote:
That and they're constantly called the Clone 'Wars' despite being a single armed conflict as portrayed in the prequels.

I guess there could potentially be more than one war.... I mean, if you look at it this way: when Padme/Anakin/Obi-Wan "discover" the droid army factories in Ep. 2, destroy most of them, and force Dooku on the run, we *could* be left with a sense of that single "war" is over and done with.... Fast forward to Ep. 3, this time Anakin is somewhere in the 18-25 ish range (right??) he's been made a knight, there's talk of his rising to the council to become a Master, etc... it's been a few years since the wee little teenage lad in Ep. 2 has been fighting/doing Jedi Things™. Ultimately, we're not really sure how much time has passed in that interim.

What we ARE opened with in Ep. 3, is that a new leader, General Grievous is in charge of the droid armies and has been using "bold moves" to try and cripple the fighting capacity of the Republic.





Again, this all comes down to poor writing and poorer execution on Lucas' part in giving fans and newcomers alike a coherent storyline to follow.