10 Things Star Wars Fans Don't Want To Accept About The Movies
2. The Prequels Told A Better Story Than The Sequels
George Lucas may have found himself overwhelmed by all those visual effects in the prequels, but the story he delivered was still vastly more cohesive than the sequels. The politics bogged the story down and there were some real leaps in logic, but they still had a beginning, middle, and end, and told one big story. The same really can't be said about the latest three instalments.
Lucasfilm didn't even have a vague plan in place for The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker, something that was evident from how massively different Colin Trevorrow's Episode IX was going to be to what Abrams delivered (there was no Emperor and completely different endings for every main character).
The studio may have been trying to emulate what Lucas did by making it up as he went, but the key difference is that he's the creator of Star Wars; bringing in filmmakers with totally separate visions was a baffling, stupid move.
Star Wars fans are, of course, entitled to have a favourite trilogy, and if it's the sequels, there's nothing wrong with that! However, looking at it objectively, the prequels were no doubt stronger from a storytelling standpoint (even if some mistakes were made along the way).