Your thoughts on Luke, and the way the ST changes everything the other two trilogies mean (and what Luke's character has always represented), are exactly the things I don't like. I enjoy (or roll my eyes fondly) at just about everything else about the trilogy, but those two issues are just so huge, that I can never see the story as more than -- one of many possible futures for the galaxy. The EU was thematically much more in keeping with the hope and promise of the end of ROTJ.

The PT, on the other hand, has the core of a really great story about the insidiousness of evil hidden somewhere within it, and I appreciate how it fits with the OT and enjoy the extended media (comics, cartoons, books) around it and all the reams of fic it's generated -- but when I go back and watch the actual movies, the dialog and direction are just so painful and stilted and awful (with the occasional exception of Ewan Macgregor). If it could be reimagined with a different writer and director (and perhaps actors with enough force of personality to stand up to the director when necessary, see: Harrison Ford) then I would be here for it.