The Star Wars Prequels were significantly inferior to the Star Wars original trilogy

First off I disagree that my argument was emotionally involved. My claim that we don't care about the battle scenes was supported by non opinionated evidence. My argument is not that these movies should be enjoyable to every single person, but only that these movies are poorly done for the role they were made for, and that the primary reason people like them are that there is so much nostalgia and CGI that they are distracted from things that make movies unenjoyable. The Worst thing a movie can do is remove our connection with the characters. The point of a protagonist in an adventure film is to be someone we can relate to. Whatever adventure the hero sets out on is likely filled with things unfamiliar to a normal person, such as aliens. If the protagonist is as alien to us as the rest of the characters, then people don't feel sympathy, and they don't care. This is a fact, and is shown throughout any adventure film that features character growth. Luke is a relatable character because of his circumstance. As a teenager he is forced to stay home and work for his family, when really he just wants to be free and roam the galaxy, fighting for the rebellion. Is that not the story of the vast majority of teenagers? In addition, Luke's emotions make sense in his situations, and because people have related to him (Whether they know it or not), and the situations feel real and have tension, we share a part of his emotions. As he grows in his training we learn more about the force and his personality, which is also highly relatable to most teenagers. By this time people are wanting Luke to succeed, as they see themselves in him. Because of this we feel his anger and frustration to varying extents. This is how characterization for a protagonist is almost always done, and for a good reason. Now we see there is a target audience, and a very well put together protagonist for that audience Now let's look at the prequels. We know the movies clearly weren't made for kids, and are labeled as action/adventure, meaning we need that same relatable protagonist to feel emotionally involved. Can you, watching the movie now, relate to kid Anakin? I doubt too many people remember what they did at age 9-12, so there is no way to relate to what he is going through, and no one can relate to Obi-Wan or Qui-Gon, because they show no emotion. The second movie is the only time we can relate to him in his attempts to be with Padme, well, at least until he goes on his murderous rampage. But then again in the third movie he goes back to being completely unrelatable with his child killing, beheading, murderous tendencies. The only reason we care about Anakin in these movies is because he is becoming Darth Vader. Standing alone the prequels just wouldn't gain the same amount of interest as the original trilogy, because no one would have any interest or connection with the characters. battles: Continuing with the theme of relatability, let's look at the battles again. In the original trilogy, each battle not only has our protagonist(s), who we are emotionally connected to, directly involved with the participation and outcome, but the overall war mirrors history, making it relatable too. In WWII, which at the time was a fairly recent event, the helpless British fight against the tyrant Hitler. It was incredibly intelligent (Or lucky) to mimic that with the war in the movies, as many people watching them would remember fighting the same war themselves. Making the hero like them, makes them feel like more of a hero. Where is this kind of deep connection in the prequels?"Where in history did an evil mastermind trick two factions into fighting each other, so that he could manipulate the outcome to eliminate a third rival faction and take complete control? We already have no connection to the characters, and there goes the plot right there, so what's left? if there is no emotional connection then the movie is either a comedy, or hollow. Sure the prequels do a decent enough job at explaining everything, but so could a narrator in a few lines, but wait, that happened through Ben Kenobi, and Vader. Duels: If you had 1,000,000 dollars given to you in a safe, would you hit it with a hammer and give up? Obviously not. In addition the emperor knew he could turn Luke, and he was correct, because he almost did. Luke giving into his anger and almost killing his own father seems like a successful attempt to me. I also feel the light saber battles themselves were on another level as the prequels'. The light saber duels of the original trilogy had meaning. they may not have been the best choreographed scenes but they didn't need to be. In fact that would have ruined the point. there was another layer of fighting with these duels. Not only was each character fighting physically and with the force, but there were also mind games, and important plot points that revolved around each one. The force is shown on many occasions to be more powerful than what the prequels reveal, for instance Luke destroying the death star with an impossible shot. Most importantly though, it is shown to be something that requires extensive training to ever master. On many occasions we see Luke struggling to use the force, and failing, due to his limited amount of time with Yoda. We see the rewards of devoting a life to mastering it appear through out the movies. In the prequels, every Jedi seems to already have these rewards. of course this is explained by them being trained since they were kids, but it ruins our view of the force. When we see characters, that are so unrelatable that they don't even seem human, using the force so easily, we begin to associate the force with being only obtainable by an inhuman character, thus removing any sense of difficulty or relatability with it. Plot: What is the plot of the prequels, besides the story of Darth Vader? it certainly isn't persuading worlds to join the republic. The only persuading of any kind is done to further Palpatine's power. All of the world shown are just backgrounds to another cool battle scene that Lucas wanted to fit in. I guess that is the plot then. Everything that happened was a direct result of his rise to power. I actually would have very much liked this. Finding out that all of our hero's efforts had been for nothing because he was doomed from the start would have been a great ending. the problem again lies in the relatability. I already felt that each battle was for nothing, except perhaps some untold, uninteresting political or resource reason, because there is no noble cause for the war. No character or event was relatable, so there is no connection, and therefore interest. Neither army ever seemed to be losing at any point, so there was no tension. Standing alone, would they not have been better movies if the war mimicked the originals? Then we would feel more connected, and therefore more emotion as Palpatine manipulated all of the variables. It would make us despise him, and provide an excellent jumping off point for his introduction to the rest of the series, assuming they had been made second. There wasn't really any hate for him as he massacred the Jedi order, because to the average viewer they showed just about as much depth as a battle droid. Closing: My point here is that relatabilty, emotion, and connection to the protagonist, and other characters are what make a movie good. There are reasons that all of the best movies mimic the concept of relatability the main one being so that we can get emotionally involved with the story. If the sole purpose of the prequels were to tell Vader's story, then I guess they did their job, just not well, and then they surrounded it with junk. This turned into the prequel movies, where everyone was too busy being distracted by CGI and their favorite characters, they never saw through that into the movies, which were at the absolute, very best mediocre.