User blog comment:Ireithien/PSA: Daisy Ridley is Pretty Much Flawless/@comment-5111283-20151228043459/@comment-5772846-20151230171902

The prequels are near and dear to me because sadly I grew up with them, and not the originals. As you get older and start looking closer at the films, you realize how flawed they are, mostly in just the way they're made and not the story they tell (with perhaps the exception of too much emphasis on politics).

Awful writing (and I mean, TERRIBLE writing), bad acting, too much CGI, and boring cinematography (walk, talk, shot, reverse-shot), and unfunny, un-Star Wars-y humor drag the films down so much, that with age, they start to become unenjoyable except for the nostalgia factor. Contrasting them to the originals is even worse when you realize those movies told a tight, concise, and well-executed story that still holds up decades later.

As far as Clone Wars goes, it's a valiant effort. Seasons 1 and 2 are boring as heck, but the show shifted gears and became real quality materail from season 3 onwards. If you ignore the return of Darth Maul, that is. And I can't really judge Rebels since I haven't seen any of it. :P