What do you think is the reason why people hate the politics in the Star wars prequels but people like LOTGH despite a large part of it being about politics? (ignoring the fact that LOTGH politics is obviously more based, since normies generally don't care about that)
Edit: LOTGH=Legend of the Galactic Heroes for those who don't know
I guess consider me out of the loop, I didn't realize politics was a big complaint in the prequels.
It's been a long time, and I probably wouldn't have been viewing it through a political lens, I don't really remember objecting on those grounds; the politics were subtle enough to be open to interpretation, and in fact it touched on a lot of important concepts like the fragility of the system and stupidity of the populace and their politicians. And led to some great memes, too, of course, which is the prequels' main claim to fame anyway.
Palpatine's love and respect for Our Democracy is great to see.
The prequels had problems (as someone else mentioned...fucking Jar Jar Binks), but I don't remember politics being near the top of the list.
Too much politics and talking was the main complaint i heard was leveled against the prequels when they had first come out.
I think the bigger issue with the prequels was that George Lucas cannot write decent dialogue if his life depended on it. Almost every single one of Anakin's lines, especially in episode 2 and 3, are just comically bad.
Yeah, the politics might not have helped (I don't remember minding at the time), but it was bad characters like Anakin (and his mom) and, of course, Jar Jar, that really soured a lot of people I think.
There's so much of that. Epic scenes like the lead up to Obi-Wan vs Anakin Vader duel ruined by dialogue that sounds like mediocre fan fiction.
There's other things that bother me that are relatively minor and I generally enjoy the prequels, but it's mostly Jar Jar and dialogue. Anyone expecting them to never talk needs to watch different movies. The original trilogy had a lot of talking too.