When you see pictures of your 90 year old great grandfather from when he was 87, does he look younger to you? Multiply those numbers by ten (and turn him green and three feet tall) and you have Yoda.

People sitting on couches, talking!

Shot, reverse shot, shot, reverse shot, shot, reverse shot, etc

I think all six movies should be made completely CGI. And Jar Jar should wear a stovepipe hat like Lincoln's, only taller.

Star Wars just makes me sad now.

You mean, "Kiala's friend Matthew Wood who is also General Grievous or whatever".

Fixed that for you.

I was sad about what Lucas had done to his franchise until I read an old magazine that had an interview with him in the months before Star Wars (ep.4) came out, when rumors of its budget over-runs and studio angst over it flopping were running through Hollywood.
Lucas kept referring to it as a children's film, almost dismissively.
I think when it became huge, people accepted it as a grown-up movie, because if you saw it in 1977, you were either a stoned adult or a child.
Also, Lucas sought and retained an unprecedented amount of the profits for merchandising, because 20th Century Fox predicted there would be very little money in it. They really thought the movie would tank and let George have the lion's share of it.
So, I just accept that the Star Wars franchise is a series of children's movies designed to move toys for George Lucas and to expect any 'greatness' out of them is kind of dumb.

I'm really thankful to Lucas for making the prequels ...otherwise the world would not have this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

Couldn't they just use CGI to replace Episode I with a different movie?

I didn't realize how crappy the puppet looked. Glad they are replacing it with CGI.

When I strike it rich I am going to purchase the Mercury so that I can go back and "enhance" all of my comments so they paint me in a better light.