Maybe Star Wars really is the ultimate metaphor for life.  Just in time for the upcoming election, you can now study The Star Wars Guide to the Candidates, which brings us enlightenment via Craigslist.  Yes, right alongside requests for group sex with donkeys and offers to sell pee stained couches, sits the definitive voting aide.  I think this says more about our political system than the popularity of Star Wars.  Or, for that matter, group sex with donkeys.

The Star Wars prequels might be the most unmercifully criticized body of work in science fiction and fantasy today -- justifiably, for the most part.  But I have always felt that fans' rage over the wooden acting, terrible dialogue, over-usage of CGI, and unsatisfactory story-telling has overshadowed the redeeming aspects of the movies.  They are few, but they are there.  Since Star Wars has just as often been characterized as fantasy as it has as sci-fi and since we do reserve some room on this website for science fiction either way, I thought the Bard the perfect place to defend those precious few things about Episodes I, II, and III that make them worth watching.