User blog comment:Ireithien/PSA: Daisy Ridley is Pretty Much Flawless/@comment-5111283-20151228043459/@comment-26067066-20160104201924

Well I'd actually argue that, even though the "taxation of trade routes" thing was hardly an engaging backstory, I found it pretty interesting how Palpatine used the Trade Federation and later the Separatists to slowly gain control over the Republic. In fact it was probably the most enjoyable aspect of the prequels for me.

If you can look past the bad acting and godawful love banter, there is some good to be found in the prequels, though if you don't find the overall story interesting as I do, there really isn't much barring the action sequences. The originals and TFA were more character-based, and though personally I found their stories less interesting than the prequels, unlike the prequels they were actually told well. xD