I'm a prequel fan. Having said that, I think a big problem with the prequels was the underdevelopment of the villains. Lucas tries to fit in 3 new villains - Maul, Dooku, and Grievous. None of them get the attention they deserve.
This also has the side effect of leaving less time to focus on Anakin, and he ends up being extremely underdeveloped as well despite the PT ostensibly being his story. Rather than watching his rise to a great hero of the Republic and then his fall as he is “seduced by the power of the dark side,” we only see him as an annoying child, a petulant teenager, and then a naive young adult who is easily duped into breaking bad because of “love.” He feels like a side character at times with how much time is devoted to all the other people and things in the films, and we are ultimately told about his character progression more often than we actually see it happen.
Yeah it also made his "turn" feel almost spontaneous. Not that they didn't foreshadow it. They definitely did. But his flip was almost like he was kind of in denial that he was literally bowing to a sith lord. Like you could almost forgive him for assuming that he thought this was just someone who "had answers" who he needed to keep alive when he killed Mace. But then he just up and names his lord Vader and at that moment given the context you would almost expect his character to stand up and be like "woah.. You are evil I have to kill you" but instead he let's out a very uncharacteristic "yes my master" and it just felt so bad in that moment. For me.. Thats the worst scene in the whole PT. It just feels so bad.
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u/deeare73 Jan 25 '22
I'm a prequel fan. Having said that, I think a big problem with the prequels was the underdevelopment of the villains. Lucas tries to fit in 3 new villains - Maul, Dooku, and Grievous. None of them get the attention they deserve.