Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

For their faults, the prequels movies did appeal to kids and led to a boom of other media, all the games and Clone Wars show. The whole reevaluation of them is from those kids who (physically) grew up.

The newer stuff, I don’t know who the target audience is. They’re all gen x and old millennials making this stuff for other people like them.

the premise was shit: don't explore your intimidating awesome villain when he was a baby and whiny angsty teen

the plots and writing were shit

however in spite of all this the worldbuilding was great and really led to expanded possibilities for other storytelling in that universe

there was no prior understanding of what the galaxy used to look like in peace and prosperity, with jedi intact

it laid the groundwork for things like kotor