To this day I'll still see Star Wars posting because, well, it's the internet, it never ends, but let me put it this way.
Movies are about people. Stories are generally about people, their beliefs and their desires. How do you think conflict arises? What drives the story?
The reason I say this is because conversation usually ether devolves into lore and the extended universe (it doesn't matter), whether any particular thing is necessary, or if it just looks cool. But none of these things are why I go to see a movie.
Because you can go through all of them frame by frame by frame, whining incessantly that they have "baby jokes for babies", you know, in your space samurai movie for children, but the most important thing is the characters and everything else you can take it or leave it.
"that feeling when sand"
When it comes to Anakin, he's interesting to consider but also really dull in practice. That's not to say it had to be this way, the chaotic mess of blunders on all sides that transform an idealistic child into a robotic tyrant, his mentors having no wisdom to give him - it's not a bad idea!
I mean, it worked for Shakespeare! There's a reason why the fallen hero is so timeless, it's a tragedy, a few different decisions could have changed everything, and instead you watch Anakin and everyone else around him consistently make the wrong decisions every single time.
Movies like this usually try to absolve the fallen hero of responsibility in order to make them sympathetic, but I can respect that it doesn't. No one comes out looking like the good guy here. Anakin wasn't a good person, but at the same time he didn't have as much of a say in what kind of person he would end up becoming as he would have liked. It's everybody's fault!
Now, overall, if Star Wars has an overarching theme, then it's probably "learn from your mistakes". Pretty much everything the characters do turns out to be a failure, it's the Will Smith philosophy to life.
The problem? Well, not to be mean about it, but Lucas turned into a lazy slob, laying back in an air conditioned bunker, watching as the computer did all his work for him, nerds writing his books for him. If the prequels are anything, it's that they are lazy, these are just flat, lazy movies.
As for why the prequel trilogy has it's defenders, it may be just because something like this looks phenomenal standing next to all the fucking sludge that's become standard in blockbusters today. It sometimes has a real set! And with good lighting! Woah! And compare that to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which now has even less colour, even less life, and even less soul.
But it all starts here. Lucas changed filmmaking forever because he wanted to be a lazy slob sitting in his chair, watching nerds animate his toys for him.
