Here's my point though....Episodes IV, V, and VI had plot holes. They also had bad acting. Mark Hamill, honestly, is a horrendous actor. The "that's not true....that's impossible!" scene in Empire is just hilarious. It's Shatner-style acting! Is it as bad as Hayden? Nope. But it's corny. Even Ford was a bit cheesy in the first flick. In addition, Jawas and Ewoks and pig men and chirping droids on the ground beeping as well as droids in Jabba's palace getting burned and somehow FEELING IT! (lol) all that stuff is a touch corny. Star Wars isn't The English Patient, Schindler's List, or On Golden Pond. It's Star Wars. So when people say the acting in Ep3 was corny, with Hayden I concur. But then again, so was Hamill's in Empire and ROTJ. Luke can be hard to take seriously at times. When people say the script had plot holes in ep3, I agree. So did the old trilogy. When people say it had silly moments, yep, so did the others. The script for A New Hope wasn't exactly A Place in the Sun.
Star Wars is aimed at kids and the kid in all of us. If we analyze it to the nth degree and expect perfection, just t'ain't gonna happen. All we can do is look at the lessons in the movies, the ideas they're trying to deliver, and individually we just react. For me, Episode III shows Anakin misplacing his love. He loves Padme, and is willing to sell out his values just for his selfish love of her. Palpatine is the consumate exploiter of such moments. The movie shows a take-over of a government, and it's actually pretty realistic. You use a moment of instability (Weimar Republic) as a cheesy excuse to "keep everyone safe" with martial law and emergency powers. How does one convince people to give away their freedoms? The movie shows Anakin's resentment toward the council, and I know I've felt that way before, even at church! All his sins come to a head. I think it ties things up nicely even if some holes do exist.
When you try to do prequels to something created in 1977, plot holes will exist, period. Like I've said, I think it's a fun flick. It was indeed intense, though, and not for little kids.