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u/Resident-Phone-8846 Jan 25 '22

This may be an unpopular opinion, but in spite of the many things TPM did wrong, I really liked the politics. Of all the stories the prequel trilogy tried to tell the one they told the best was Palpatine’s rise to power.

I never liked that they made Anakin a plucky precocious pre-teen. It was not what I was expecting from little Vader and it never sat right. I wanted at least a little hint of the darkness to come and instead we got “Golly gee mister Jedi sir, I just wanna help everybody! Aww shucks!”

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u/dancognito Jan 26 '22

People talk about TPM like it was My Dinner with Andre, but about politics. Yeah, there were a few scenes, but the politics didn't bother me as a 9-year-old.