(05-20-2019 10:00 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(05-20-2019 11:22 AM)ImfromClayton Wrote:  I know, conspiracy theories and all that, but I really think Jar Jar was supposed to be a Villain in one form or another. I think the outrage surrounding the first movie is one of the piles of dirt that ruined the prequel series.

I have seen some of the Jar Jar conspiracy videos, and that would have been brilliant, but the problem was they made him so over the top bad that it became impossible to execute if that was ever their plan. Thing is, I'll take Jar Jar's idiocy over listening to Anakin's putrid dialog and delivery about sand. If they had just made Annie a teenager in Phantom Menace (and cut the pod race by 75%) it would have been a far better movie, even with Jar Jar.

And the prequels look better after Episode VIII. I re watched them recently and it's the new trilogy that has made me appreciate the prequels more.

I agree with this totally. I think the new movies frame the prequels in a way which makes them make a whole hell of a lot more sense. The prequels are much more about the problems with a society than individual characters IMO, and I think the new trilogy addresses that.