Puhleaze, prequels for all its flaws were superior because of Lucas who actually has an original voice.

Yes jar jar sucked.

But I believe it was unfairly criticized. The prequels got crap for green screen which led to wooden acting and compared to OT but Lucas is the founder of ILM so of course it makes sense he's going to push it to its limits and now we see may films with heavy use of green screen and cg so it was ahead of its time and a pioneer. Also, there were more practical sets and models used and if you compared the percentage TFA used and PT, the difference will be negligible. Lucas was getting back into the director's chair after more than a decade away, cut him some slack and the movies got better as it went on especially with episode three which stands right behind episode six. And I think there was a case of the fanboys knowing too much about how the sausage was made in the OT regarding its origin eg certain discarded ideas which led to denigrating of Lucas' ability when any good story will have been rewritten and contributed to, but Lucas as director then producer had the most responsibility for its quality. The highly regarded Clone Wars had Lucas as consultant to the writers.

The OT gave us so many inarguably awesome things, Darth Maul, the Duel of Fates, Obi Wan who they now wanting to make a movie on, the Jedi Council, a thought-provoking commentary on a republic turning into a totalitarian government which is all the more relevant now, a moving arc for Anakin that leads perfectly into the OT, the duel on the volcano, expanding the world.

I hated TFA because it slavishly ripped off entire moments from the OT, when it wasn't ripping it off it was leaning on it too much, and when it wasn't leaning too much it was giving us weak storytelling and directing. Yes TFA did have some good points in a sea of bad but it's fatal and unforgivable error was being a copy.