Originally Posted by Sci-Fi

That's one of the criticisms of Luca's story telling. He often leaves large gaps and doesn't properly setup the backstory. Some people speculate it's intentional so he can sell more books and toys. A few minutes dedicated to the telling of the Sith History/background and why there "can only be two" instead of an order like the Jedi should have been told instead of having to buy the books to explain it all. Grevious had no backstory unless you saw the SW's Clone Wars or read the books/comics. In the book, Boga was a noble animal (and its sad what happens to her), but in the movie she was just some random animal Obi-Wan rides.

A Sith Lord is supposed to be more powerful than any one Jedi Master, even Yoda. But in the SW3...

Spoiler The fight between Yoda and Darth Sidious was pretty even and many fans questioned Yoda's withdrawl from the fight. "It was like Yoda decided to take his toys and go home." It would be different if somebody showed up and the odds were against him, but there were only the 2 of them in the Senate chamber. Then you have Obi-Wan not finishing Anakin, even as a mercy killing for a former friend and apprentice. Even though Obi-Wan said he couldn't kill Anakin, why would he want to see him suffer? One would expect that from a Sith Lord, to enjoy watching the suffering and last moments, only the gloating is missing. In ANH, Obi-Wan says to Luke " your father wanted you to have his light saber" but between the "I hate you" screamings, nobody recalls Anakin saying, by the way, give my light saber to my son that I don't know I have yet....lol...j/k. But it was a nice nod to ANH to see Obi-Wan pick up the Anakin's light saber.

Yes the visuals are stunning and captivating, but some feel they seemed more geared to a tie-in to a video game. Plus the film dumbed down Padme and the dialogue often generated more laughs and groans, or was that intended? How many times does Lucas have to put in "I have a bad feeling about this" in his movies? Or robots saying "Owwww" before dieing? R2D2 has a lot more features/abilities than we have seen in previous movies (what happened to them?), but didn't seem to use them when it was really needed, like not using the jet pack/thrusters (or did he run out of fuel?) when the ship tilted and R2 was sliding down the floor. At the Star Wars forum, fans are a bit more critical but still enjoy the film and give it a thumbs up.

It is Lucas' creation so he could do anything he wants despite the fans wishes and criticisms. Lucas often said the fans of the original trilogy are 30+ and the fans of the prequels are younger than that. So he is successful in attracting a new generation of fans to Star Wars, but some feel he abandoned the concepts of the original trilogy that made those films so memorable and the characters so likeable in favor of showing off technology.