[Darth Sane]

LESS IS MORE. SUBTLTY SUBTLTY SUBTLTY. I believe lucas has forgotten this. He has simply been too tempted to go over the top and lay "everything" in his mind out with CGI. This is one of the reasons why PT is dissapointing. He effectively lays the whole galaxy (the framework of it) out for you on a pretentious and grandios CGI scale. There it is..."this is...MY VISON IN ALL ITS GLORY..YAHA HAHAHA" -GL. But OT was great because the universe truely seemed limitless, mysterious, and even majical--this is because the audience had more of an active imaginative roll in the films. It was up to the audience to imagin the universe, the galactic senate and the hunting down of the jedi by vader. Another problem is the over-stretching of "suspension of disbelief." The OT was truely unique in that it was sci-fi and fantasy, not one or the other. The audience truely believed that the universe could have actually existed, that is why the escapist effect was so pure and strong. Just view the OT and PT side by side. PT stretches the imagination into total fantasy. Just look at Yoda's sword fighting and the Clone factory on that ocean world. In the OT, things were filmed in a more gritty and intimate fasion. Aliens wherent randomly created just to be cool looking, but had some purpose be it a tone or an emotion to set in a scene. Look at the snow battle on Hoth and how simple yet awe-inspiring and believable it was. Even scenes with the force in the OT are properly restrained. Stones are slowly lifted and people are chocked, yet still they exist in a realm all the more believable than the PT, which is more like the lord of the rings. This creats a detrimental "disconect" between the PT and its viewer. This is why the PT will never be as captivating as OT.