>>6956705Maul.
Yes, Grevious too.
Dooku.
Jango Fett.
Qui Gon Jin.
Watto.
Amidala until 2 for some and then 3 happened.
People loved the designs and there's nothing you can really say that doesn't count.
Vader wasn't that well of a developed character either, but holy fuck at his design and presence. See also Boba Fett.
Same way a character like Ackbar can be so well liked despite having like five lines.
The long lasting presence proves how well loved they are. Story/characterization mattered little.
The prequels are loved for the same reasons the original trilogy was loved. OF course, the original had one good movie. ESB has no beginning or end, so as story it's incomplete, yet people like it more than ANH anyway. Some people put RotJ behind most of the prequels.
As for effects, that's just a shitty bias. The argument vs CGI is ongoing today, despite how bad the practical effects were in the new sequel. People were shitting on the prequels effects way back when, not realizing how much of the prequels were done through miniatures and paintings.
And a lot of people were defending the prequels SFX back then, justifyably so when saying that they could always be updated.
