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 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.