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I liked AotC and thought Phantom Menace was descent. The plot of the second trilogy is a very complex political web, and I think most viewers just don't have the patience to appreciate or understand it. Plotwise, the first three movies are pretty simple. Episode IV is an escape and an attack on a base. Empire is a long chase. Jedi is another jailbreak followed by an attack on a base. The most political depth you get out of them is in the 1st movie when Vader and Tarkin discuss the Emporer's disbanding of the Imperial Senate.
In the current movies, we are getting to see how one man uses industrial magnates with revolutionary tendancies to start a war and then how he plays two sides against each other to create the need for governmental change giving him emergency powers to act for the safety of the Republic. We will soon get to see him convert that Republic into a Parlimentary Monarchy.
The things to enjoy in these movies are very nuanced, and the actor playing Palpatine does a fine job.
Just try to overlook JarJar and the other Gungans, including BigBoss, as well as whichever version of Anakin annoys you most. We're older now and we may forget it, but Tauntans were pretty cheezy, as was the abominable snowman scene, as were all the Ewoks -- which can certainly annoy me as much as a gungan (except JarJar) anyday.
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