Star Wars: 15 Moments That Pissed Off Every Fan

In a misguided attempt to make the prequel trilogy appear more "deep", Lucas decided that what the Star Wars franchise really needed was dull, protracted political meetings in giant, ornate buildings.

The fact that the second sentence of The Phantom Menace's title crawl mentions "the taxation of trade routes" is really letting everyone know as soon as humanly possible that large chunks of these three movies are going to be incredibly boring.

Unfortunately Lucas just lacks the nuance as a writer to shape his ideas, not all of them bad, into an enjoyable whole, and so the prequels would almost certainly have been better had these endless meetings been trimmed down to the bare bones.

Considering these movies were clearly marketed towards children, who the hell thought kids would want to sit through what basically amounts to Star Wars: C-SPAN Edition?