I'm speaking about the production of the film. How it was filmed, how the plot unfolded. Stylistically it was as different as it could be. None of the fights were too elaborate. There was no political mumbo jumbo. There wasn't a peep about midichlorians. They did everything they could to mimic the first Star Wars, while avoiding it being a complete copy. They couldn't outright ignore the prequel films happened, but they can make a film that was as far as from how they were written and shot.