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I think what a lot of EU stans miss on Lucas' prequel trilogy is that he wanted to give it that fully zany flash gordon form which he could not pull off back in the mid to late 70s and early 80s. He also wanted a world build that was akin to that dick cheesy Rice Burroughsian landscape. The EUers were a bit too much on the logical side. IF you can evaluate the prequels on their own terms they are basically good Star Wars movies albeit with significant problems(OH GAWD the dialogue). They needed better directors and screen writers and had they had them they might have been of equal quality to the OT(which had it their own problems).

What is beyond doubt is that Jar Jar is responsible for two of the worst Star Wars films ever made with TROSW being the diarrhea on top of the shit sundae. Johnson's film was at least auteurishly interesting though not as good as his fanboys like to claim and not as bad as the fandom menace says it is(they have a trad overly logical bent anyway which does not make their analysis of TLD very good either). It's not a bad film but it's also not the modern SW equivalent of Empire Strikes Back.

What makes this trilogy feces on the whole is just bad archetypal lead characters who(while played by good actors) are not comparable to the OT or the prequel characters who were memorable SW characters as a whole in an interesting kiddy zany flash gordanian world.

For me what makes good SW is balancing Lucas' vision with the EU stans. Disney did none of this and will likely oversee the decline of the mythos as a franchise. As Peter correctly says though, there is still the marginal fanfiction which can keep it alive.