The Star Wars prequels have lots of bad dialogue and bad writing decisions in them (so do a lot of movies, really) but I REFUSE to believe they can be left out of the Star Wars experience, because you lose out on so much. When you get to lines like “He was a good friend” and “She was very beautiful, kind, but sad” you remember the faces and remember the stories and remember what’s been lost. When Obi-Wan talks about the time “before the dark times, before the Empire” you can see the pre-Empire world before you again and you know exactly what everyone’s fighting for, what they’re fighting to not only bring back but make better, so the same things don’t happen again. And when you get to the most important moment in Star Wars, the bit where Luke throws away his lightsaber, “I am a Jedi, like my father before me,” has a tremendous weight to it because you’ve seen every thing that lead up to this moment, all the tragedy, all the humanity, all the desperation not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
…….Or that’s how I see it.