RLM dissected it in a way that can applied to almost any fiction work with the same results. I tried it once with great success on Game of Thrones, the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire alongside a friend who's a literature major. We exposed the results to the fans... and they weren't happy at all with us. Except for Phantom Menace, whose plotholes are very hard to overlook, most of the criticism directed at Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith could be explained in-universe or are not problems at all and are fallacious e.g. attacking the straw man, appeal to ridicule etc.

Except the romance of course. It's valid to criticize that one. It was completely crap from the beginning and it felt like to me that Padme found Anakin so hot she pretended his failed flirtation had any effect on her. That's my headcanon at least.

RLM dissected it in a way that can applied to almost any fiction work with the same results. I tried it once with great success on Game of Thrones, the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire alongside a friend who's a literature major. We exposed the results to the fans... and they weren't happy at all with us. Except for Phantom Menace, whose plotholes are very hard to overlook, most of the criticism directed at Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith could be explained in-universe or are not problems at all and are fallacious e.g. attacking the straw man, appeal to ridicule etc.

Except the romance of course. It's valid to criticize that one. It was completely crap from the beginning and it felt like to me that Padme found Anakin so hot she pretended his failed flirtation had any effect on her. That's my headcanon at least.

RLM dissected it in a way that can applied to almost any fiction work with the same results. I tried it once with great success on Game of Thrones, the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire alongside a friend who's a literature major. We exposed the results to the fans... and they weren't happy at all with us. Except for Phantom Menace, whose plotholes are very hard to overlook, most of the criticism directed at Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith could be explained in-universe or are not problems at all and are fallacious e.g. attacking the straw man, appeal to ridicule etc.

Except the romance of course. It's valid to criticize that one. It was completely crap from the beginning and it felt like to me that Padme found Anakin so hot she pretended his failed flirtation had any effect on her. That's my headcanon at least.

I think you are wrong for example I haven't read the books (only watched the show) but for me the main problem of the prequels is the main virtue of Game of thrones, the characters.

Its not really about the plot holes great movies have plot holes the prequels are just rotten to the core.

I may have misrepresented myself. I don't agree with Plinkett entirely, just that he makes a solid argument in many cases (from a cinematography standpoint, something i'm not an expert in).

I do agree that some of the plotlines make much more sense when you think about them. I still say that Anakin's turn to the dark side was masterfully executed, even if it looks kind of stupid at first glance.

Yeah, some of the characters are a problem specially Jar Jar Binks. Even today I still watch the movies dubbed because the characters do sound much better in portuguese than in english, so perhaps that's a part of why I have enjoyed them more than what they are worthy, or why they are perceived as worse than they actually are on the originals... take your pick.

I may have misrepresented myself. I don't agree with Plinkett entirely, just that he makes a solid argument in many cases (from a cinematography standpoint, something i'm not an expert in).

I do agree that some of the plotlines make much more sense when you think about them. I still say that Anakin's turn to the dark side was masterfully executed, even if it looks kind of stupid at first glance.