Star wars prequel haters hit a new level of low.

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It took George Lucas four revisions of his Star Wars script before the studio would sign off on production. George Lucas is an excellent idea man, but falls short when it comes to scripts, particularly dialogue. This goes hand in hand with the way he handles actors reading those lines. Dialogue has a meter, a musical quality, that takes a trained ear and a bit of natural rhythm. I do believe that this isn't one of Lucas' stronger suits.

Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi used not just different writers, but aslso different directors. George Lucas got out of the way of himself for the final two installments of the original trilogy and the results are more than noticable.

In the intervening years his track record just isn't that great. It was even until he started doing the Prequels that his name even emerged on the mainstream stage as a director. He's been a prodicer of many quality works, but not the director. At this time he had created ILM, Industrial Lights and Magic, a technical marvel. It was toward this strength that the prequals were geared. No one will deny that the prequels don't look beautiful. The landscapes and battles are some of the best we've seen in cinema.

Unfortunately, Lucas surrounded himself with Yes Men for the project. No one would dare contradict his vision. This allowed the terrible scrtipts (both in dialogue and content) to be greenlit without much more than some basic editing. Stilted lines and bad dialogue weren't tweaked and you end up with atrocious scenes like anything with young Anakin in it, the Pod Race announcers, and much of the midochlorian mumbo jumbo. Add to this Lucas tendency at bad direction and you see that the actors themselves turned in poor performances without someone to guide their tone and inflection.

This isn't some knee jerk response to Jar Jar. It isn't even about Portman's Britney Spears' midrift tshirt or the fact that Ben Kenobi had direct contact with R2 and C3PO. This is a systematic example of why it's better to play to your strengths and allow others to make up for your shortcomings. Passing the titles on to another studeio, another director, etc, is akin to Darth Vader killing the Emporer at the close of Jedi. He realizes the true path and that he had been won over by the dark side of Pride. He relinquishes control to save the fate of his child, in this case, the Star Wars universe. It's a little late coming, but more powerful than we could have ever imagined.