>>935961929 (OP)George's original cut of Star Wars was crap. Marcia fixed it in post production. This is what killed their marriage. George was butthurt about Marcia "destroying his creative vision" or whatever. But Start Wars wouldn't have been a massive success without her.
ESB is the best Star Wars because George was too busy with Indiana Jones to really fuck it up. Hence you get the most character development, world building, etc.
RotJ is when people started to get too scared to say "no" to George. It introduces a whole lot of ships just designed to sell toys, it has Lando and C3PO narrating (show us, don't tell us, George), it tries to spin torture as comedy because they're just droids...
The Phantom Menace is when George gets complete control of editing. You get dreadful dialogue, loads of boring file scenes, and Jar Jar, who was supposed to turn out to be the Yosa of the Sith, but George realised he made Jar Jar too ridiculous and couldn't pull it off.
So the Yoda/Jar Jar battle gets cancelled, but they still need a lightsaber fight. This requires them to come up with Count Dooku, and a convoluted explanation for him that makes no sense. Also George realises that he needs to plausibly show Anakin turning to the dark side, but he can't write dialogue, so you just get an annoying teenager.
I'll give George one thing, at least he could create characters that produced ax reaction. Even the prequels had characters people would talk about (Jar Jar, Darth Maul, Watto). The Disney sequels are just boring and all the characters are completely flat.