User blog comment:Ireithien/PSA: Daisy Ridley is Pretty Much Flawless/@comment-5111283-20151228043459/@comment-26067066-20160104124307

@Rio: That scene was what finally killed The Phantom Menace for me. xD

@Ire: I'll agree that the movie would've been infinitely better if the audience were actually able to care about these characters. I mean they were so poorly-established in the first two prequels that it's hard to describe Padme's death as "tragic."

And I kinda found the politics and actual story of the prequels to be the best part by far, and they're pretty much the only reason I'd ever rewatch them. However, I suppose you could argue that politics have no place in a Star Wars film, but regardless I can still enjoy Episode III as a pretty decent movie.