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What got me in "Clones" was just how MONUMENTALLY STUPID the Jedi council was, to put a horny teenage boy with a "hot" queen/senator/whatever, and not "see" sparks fly between them. I ended up not caring about any of the characters in the first two, except Quigon. Ben Kenobi got his clock cleaned by everyone who came down the pike, and he's supposed to be a Jedi master? And Yodi should've been able to just go phwiit! game over! with his lightsaber. Waste of time, the whole lot of 'em.

“...just how MONMUMENTALLY STUPID the Jedi council was...”

You have to go no further than six or eight Jedi masters, including Yoda, sitting in a room with Chancellor Palpatine, and not realizing they’re within 10 feet of a Sith Lord.

Yeah, the Jedi Council was pretty damned stupid, with Sith Lord Palpatine running amok FOR YEARS right in front of their clueless noses. And the set-up with Amidala and Anakin was stupid too...she's like five or six years older than him, and his behavior amounted to creepy stalker with anger issues. But yet, she could look past all that and fall in love?

And even then, Lucas handled it very poorly. What should have happened was that Anakin and Amidala got embroiled in a public sex scandal with their babies, which was verboten with the celibate Jedi. Anakin gets tossed out of the Jedi Order, is enraged, Palpatine picks him up, and then sends him back to the Jedi Council, where he breaks bad as Darth Vader, wiping out Windu and most of the other Jedi masters singlehandledly, with only Yoda escaping his wrath. Cut then to the battle with Obi-Wan, who manages to somehow overcome Vader at the lava pit.

THAT's what should have happened in Episode III.