More importantly, though, is that Mark Hamill is appreciative of how the Star Wars prequels didn’t try to replicate the formula of the original Star Wars movies.
As Hamill noted to Metro, for The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams made more of an effort to follow in the Original Trilogy’s footsteps.
Whatever your feelings about the Star Wars prequels may be, at least they helped keep the space opera franchise going on the silver screen, and thus paved the way for the new Star Wars era many fans are currently enjoying.
To Hamill, that’s not a bad thing, but it was a different process from what George Lucas would have done, as he would have plotted out a “beginning, middle and end.”