Well, here we go again. How about some more "unneeded comments." (Of course I'm back; I'm the Prequel Defender.) How about instead of mocking me you try to defend your own tenous positions, without resorting to insults, name-calling and other blusterous hot air? It only detracts from your own weak points.
AOTC will NOT be re-done. Eps 10, 11 and 12 will be finished before they ever "re-do" ep 2. Of course Lucas will tweak it in the coming years, it was tweaked before it came to the Imax theaters even before it came to home video. To actually want it re-done is laughable I'm afraid. Forget it.
I've re-read pert-near every post looking for reasons why it seems rushed to some here. All I can offer is a big fat so what? Just because it "seems" rushed doesn't mean it is. I would completely disagree with any thoughts that it is "rushed". For one thing it's a comment that really hardly says anything. For another, they had 3 years to make it. That's a lot of quality time in it. There is great care taken in AOTC. Sure there are some clumsy spots, but there's not a film that's been made that could not have been made better with more money and more time, and unless you want the films released every 5 years, you simply do your best. Lucas thought and took his time in it. Thirdly, there's Lucas' tried and true actor's direction, "Faster, more intense," which the OT actors loved to rib Lucas about... it is supposed to be rushed. It is supposed to have a fast tone in parts, and it does. In TPM, they say "We haven't much time" at least twice! Lucas is always trying to speed things up.
AOTC is about two major plot points: Anakin & Padme falling in love, and the beginning of the end of the republic. It's an odd duality, by causing A & P to fall in love, it dooms the republic but later rescued with their children. I loved watching Palpatine weave his legacy of destruction and discovering the truth on how he came to power. Great political machination stuff because there's not too much of it.