How did the star wars prequels go so wrong? Does Lucas Realise it?

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Lucas-Rio said:

Who said you can't? You and that drunk guy only. There is not law that forbib that. You are really bitching because the movie is not following the same model than most of the other movies? But seriously, who care? I liked this movie a lot, it was entertaining and introduced everything we needed.

Some things were not needed like your gas scene or were easily given like Palpatine overthrowing the boss of the galaxy so easily but that's in all movies. Why Yoda would have put Qui Gon in jail? For protecting himself from peoplke trying to kill them at the trade federation? From defending himself against Darth Maul?

They were sent there to try to confirm what they thought and got it. That's all. There is nothing bad about it.

Rubang and "the drunk guy" are bitching because it's a terrible movie, and suggesting just a few of hundreds or perhaps thousands of ways in which it could have been good. It's hard to imagine Phantom Menace being very much worse than it is now.

Granted, all movies have inconsistencies, most probably including the original trilogy. But in very few movies are they this commonplace, and generally, if the movie itself is entertaining, nobody bothers to look for them.

On the sending of the Jedi specifically:

• Why would the Republic send ancient mystical warriors with no formal allegiance to the Senate, in place of actual diplomats?
• If they wanted to spy, couldn't they have used their untold trillions of credits to train a few people in actual espionage and have them join the Federation? Why didn't they do this to begin with?
• Why would the Trade Federation try to kill said ancient mystical warriors?
• What, exactly, did Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan hope to achieve? Did they really expect that a race of green aliens with an enormous army would sit down and have a calm conversation about taxes with some "midichlorian"-infested maverick and his unusually mature and sensible sidekick?