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In Offence of the Prequels

I was going to title this  "In Defence of the Preludes", but if three films made over a decade ago have to be re-explained then either they were not very good in the first place or the people watching weren't really paying attention. And reference is made also to The Force Awakens. Soooooo, well the first critique of the Star Wars prequels is that Lucas keeps reinforcing the... Hang on, what message is he trying to say? In each film Palpatine gains more power at the hand of an ineffective Galactic senate. I understand the point about sacrificing liberty for efficiency but did this really need to be repeated three times? To underline the point that the senate will be dissolved later? It gets repetitive and it turns people off. The Father is the Hero and not the Son. When the original saga was completed, with the final release of "Revenge of the Sith", one could make the case that Anakin was the true hero after all by defeating the elitist Je...