Personally, I think the idea of telling Anakin's story and story of Republic's fall was great choice for prequel trilogy. It makes such contrast to OT which is full of "hope" while prequels just go more and more "hopeless". For instance, scene of Anakin's mother death or whole "Execute Order 66" sequence, let alone the final fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan which is among the coolest shit I've seen in any of the SW films
This ^^^ justifies why Palpatine needs to wear hood all the time. Yikes
Also, while watching Gui-Gon duel with Darth Maul (who was complete waste of a villain, tbh) I couldn't think about anything but:
https://youtu.be/qwHZbnl9grI