Just watched it again. It isn't so much the low quality or the direction that irks me. It's the overwhelming sense that everyone at LucasFilm is done with Star Wars as a serious franchise. Is there no one at Lucasfilm that wants to just tell an awesome Star Wars story that doesn't depend on parody or that a**hole Anakin?
I think this is it exactly. Lucas said he was done with Starwars so he hands it off to people who try to market it to hell and back even as the quality falls apart just to make a buck as Lucas Films doesn't seem to have much else going on. Eventually Lucas'll do this with the Indy franchise too.