Attack of the Clones rant, revisited.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

But the fun factor is seriously missing,

Definitely bears repeating. Lucas took himself a little too seriously. All the fun is gone from the main characters. That's why Jar-Jar and 3PO's slapstick in the prequels stands out as SO much worse in the prequels than any of the comic relief in the originals. It's not because there wasn't comedy in the OT. It's because in the OT, the comedy wasn't "comic relief", it was integrated into ALL the characters. Han, Leia, Luke, 3PO, Chewbaca. They all had light hearted moments, lots of them. In the prequels, everyone seems "too important" to make quips and have silly banter, so all of it is lumped into either Jar-Jar or 3PO. So instead of comic relief, you get out of place slapstick. And instead of fun likeable characters, you get uninteresting blocks of wood whose emotions range all the way from angry to annoyed.