The prequels will always live on.

I am glad the darkness was lifted from your eyes. The prequels aren't bad they are just different than the originals which is why everyone hates them. Disney pretty much rebooted the series with TFA.

You are just reiterating that from plinkett's reviews and if you seen the way redlettermedia hypocritically bashed Rogue one but gave TFA a pass on the very things they bashed RO for you would know they have little credibility.

Now for characterizations of the prequel characters can be done but I agree they are not as charismatic and more bland (semi boring) compared to the OT characters.

For example, only for The Phantom Menace:

Quigon - reserved, introverted and questionable ethics. He boarders on behaving as though he believes the ends justify the means. "I shall do what I must Obi-Wan."

Obi-Wan - Brash, quick to judge while at the same time eager to please those around him.

Padme - uncertain but curious, eager to learn but somewhat arrogant and closed minded; but an issue with her character is the desperate position she is in as a leader and the fact they twist the character into almost 2 separate characters (with the decoy subplot) so characterization was a bit of a miss for her.

Anakin - Naive, fearful, longs for adventure but feels attached to those he cares about. 2 problem though. 1. The actor was just too young for this type of role. Aiming to make Young Darth Vader a cute 7 year old was a bad move. He should have been a little older 12 to 14, an adolescence bordering on puberty would have been much more appropriate and much less cringe worthy.

So yes you can describe their characters without describing the looks. There characterizations were not a simple and straight forward as in the characters of the OT but there was some failure to bring those more complex characters to 'life' on screen. The issue was all on execution in the PT. Great ideas and visuals; original story and direction, and characters that aimed to defy expectation. All of those were good Ideas that were executed poorly; which is a shame given the great cast they had.

Don't get me wrong the prequels definitely had errors and far inferior to the OT but since these new disney star wars have come out I have found a new appreciation for them. Think about that, TFA is so bad it makes the crappy prequels look great in comparison.

Those were my concerns. But I have grown fond of them. One is my fave, three is a guilty pleasure and two is the weakest.