What IS the main plot of AOTC? What's the main plot of any of the prequels?
There are two storylines. After an attempt on Padme’s life, her guardians, Obi-Wan and Anakin, split up; the former investigates why Padme was targeted and the latter protects her. Obi-Wan absolutely knows that Anakin is emotionally unbalanced around Padme, so it’s unclear why Obi-Wan doesn’t choose to guard Padme and send Anakin to investigate.
Anakin awkwardly incels all over Padme,
avant la lettre, and somehow it effectively makes him attractive to her.
Obi-Wan discovers that Jedi Librarians are arrogant and overly reliant on their technology. He directly goes to visit Kamino, a planet that no-one knows about, and the tall-neck aliens there think all humans look identical because they can’t differentiate Obi-Wan from Count Dooku, who had arranged for the creation of the Clone Army. Obi-Wan continues to investigate, and somehow he and Anakin and Padme all end up captured on a bug planet where the Droid Army is being similarly created. (IT’S LIKE POETRY, IT RHYMES.)
All looks hopeless, because apparently an ARMY of JEDI can’t fight DROIDS as well as Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon did in the previous movie, so it’s a big relief that Yoda has also discovered the Clone Army, which he is now in charge of, with zero-zero-zero in-film explanation. And now everyone accepts that it’s a good thing this Clone Army was just sitting around waiting to be discovered, because it’s a good thing two created armies can now battle each other, creating simulated drama.
Man, Attack of the Clones was such garbage. It was so bad that main plot got retconned before the movie even ended.
I thought Kamino (whatever, the cloning planet) was a refreshing change of style (if not an outright mistake in direction) with the giant aliens and clinical white hallways. Then Lucas shits himself by shoehorning Boba Fett and quite literally making him the opposite of exceptional then the goofiness of having hallways filed with poor Temuera Morrison composited three hundred times in every frame.
I think George Lucas wants people to like the things he likes, and gets angry when they focus on something else. Killing off Boba in a massive vagina dentata wasn't enough, so he de-specialized Boba by making Jango, and then making thousands of Jangos.