Genndy knows how to tell a story. There's a segment in the cartoon where Anakin hallucinates some pictograms coming to life, and over 30? seconds or so they tell a more compelling (IMO) story of a hero who goes to fight a great evil, is corrupted by the same power, and ends up destroying all that he loves and fought for than the entire 6 hours of the prequel trilogy. Maybe it's just because it's more compressed, I dunno.