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Soundwave on 09 January 2018
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CGI-Quality said:
Soundwave said:

They're only cool because of the casting, the characters themselves are duller than expired milk. 

Lucas gives them nothing to do or no personality. That is the most muted character Sam Jackson has ever played. "A Sith ... Lord?". "I'm Ron ... Burgandy?". It's laughably bad dialogue. The Jedi were supposed to be some bad ass warriors, instead they're just a bunch of boring dorks. 

I don't think they were that sterile, they just didn't "pop" like the characters of IV, V, and VI. Unlike many, though, I like the Prequels (not nearly as much as the originals), so I have a harder time being as critical. There were only two things I would have been fine without - Grievous and Jar Jar!

A 3rd grade play has more pop than the prequels, lol. 

The prequels basically had two settings:

1.) Absurdly cartoony CG characters

2.) Dull/emotionless human characters

It's an insanely poor combination. I don't know how Lucas couldn't see that the warm/bantering/fun human characters in the original Star Wars is what made the whole thing work. Huge fundamental mistake right off the bat. 

Like Padme for example, the female "lead" of the prequels ... what is her personality? Does she even have one other than walking around like a Christmas ornament waiting to get preggers? Compare her to Princess Leia, it's night and day. Han Solo? Forget it, lol, all the human characters combined have the charisma/personality of Han Solo's pinky finger. 

Kylo Ren/Rey/Finn/Poe even if flawed are a large upgrade in humans and the sequel trilogy loses the CGI dumb assery for the most part making the movies feel "real" again instead of a overblown cartoon. So for that I think they do well. They're just never going to be as original/unique as the OT.