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Music from All Songs Considered, available wherever you get your podcasts. Back when the Star Wars prequels first came out, they were polarizing.

Many fans who the original trilogy hated them,

though many young people experiencing George Lucas's space opera for the very first time,

loved them then and loved them still.

It's been 20 years since the final prequel film, Revenge of the Sith, first hit theaters.

So it seems like a fitting time to reevaluate, well, everything about them, really.

From Jar Jar Binks and the taxation of trade routes to that final climactic no!

That broke the internet in half.

Let's talk about it.

I'm Glenn Weldon, and we're revisiting the Star Wars prequels on this episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour.

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