The problem I had with these new crop of characters is the worst thing you can have happen, that it’s not that you hate them, but that you just simply don’t care.
Yeah, the prequels ten years ago sucked, I saw the first of the three (?) recent ones, and realized, not only do they suck, but I also am no longer 20 years old. :^)
I was 9 when the first trilogy concluded in 1983, and it was apparent Lucas was already bored with it (that silly business with the Ewoks). The second trilogy was just meh, though the special effects were great. The acting wasn’t. Emo Anakin just didn’t work. With that ultra-Emo dude from the execrable “Girls” show as the villain in the turd trilogy, it is just pathetically bad.
Indeed, it's been said that the opposite of love is not hate, but apathy and indifference.