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Originally Posted by ZoetMB
But did he also write the prequels for 12-year-olds? Certainly, the boy Skywalker and Jar-Jar were written for young kids (and my 7-year-old grandson loved Jar-Jar), but they also had convoluted and confusing plots about the trade federation, political maneuvering and Padme's doppelgänger. Frankly, I don't understand how a young kid could understand many elements of the prequels.
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Jar Jar was in the film precisely because of all those political elements. Like the conversation in A New Hope between Tarkin and his generals, much of it would go over the head of the film's target audience. It's only later in life, when the audience is older, that they appreciate a lot of what they couldn't understand first time round.
You mentioned "over-reliance on CGI". You do know that there's more practical effects in The Phantom Menace than in any of the original films, don't you?