It’s pretty clear that Lucas made it all up as he went along. Plot holes are abundant in both the originals and prequels, for example it wouldn’t have mattered if Luke had turned to the Dark side cause Lando still would destroyed the Death Star, presumably with Luke still on it. Excuse I read, The Emperor was using his powers to make his men fight better and after he died they couldn’t hack it on their own.
And Leia claims to have remembered her mother, who died right after birthing her, no decent excuse for that one.
I guess the excuse as to why Obi-Wan looked about 20 years older than he should of is that life in the Tatooine desert is a bitch and so is getting your arms and legs cut off and almost burning to death.
With Anakin I was expecting a heroic figure, something like a Jedi version of Han Solo that was slowly corrupted by his desire for power, you know something cool like that. Not a whiny little rectal itch (evolved from a happy go lucky little kid, happier than a slave had any business being) with pompous speech patterns who only turned to the dark side cause the bad guy said he could save his wife from dying (and then killing her himself during a tempter tantrum and staying evil afterwards just for the hell of it) what a let down.
I hope Disney doesn’t further sexually assault the franchise.
I think they’re already trying to get all the movies deleted off of you tube where they’ve been available in their entirety.
Han Solo is an arrogant prick, though. Had Anakin merely been another version of him, it just would’ve been a boring rehash. They have this kid (well, he’s in his 20s, seems like a kid to me) on “Days Of Our Lives” who reminds me of the guy who played the teen Anakin. He’s an annoying and weird snot playing Sammi Brady’s son Will, and they decided (out of the blue) to make him homosexual.
Now he’s annoying, weird AND creepy (the actor, Chandler Massey, is the son of a recent GA Democrat Secretary of State). Of course, they’ve got a major storyline going as of late that is about as in-your-face as they can get... and they’re making the “villain” of the piece someone who is... gasp !... a “homophobe” (!) All because the guy probably got raped in prison and doesn’t want his new child to be raised by homosexuals. I’m rooting for the villain. ;-)
Getting back to Star Wars for a moment, when you get right down to it, it has always been an attempt to assault “Conservatism” and the “American Empire” (nevermind Lucas in a Marxist state would never have had such an opportunity to make his cartoon fantasies on the screen). One wonders if the “Dark Side” was really all that dark or evil, embodied by a strong and effective leader seeking to actually get something accomplished (the Emperor).
The corpulent “Republic” was already dying under the weight of bureaucracy and ineffective leaders. Were the “Rebels” merely looking to return it to that, enforced by a religious cult, “The Jedis” ? Ultimately, the politics of the SW universe came off as one big muddled mess. Had I written such a universe, it would’ve been a parable that such a massive political body can only be run either by a dictatorship or it’s time to split it up into manageable units instead of some nightmarish United Nationsesque-One Galaxy “Republic”/Federation.
Whether it be in the future, eons ago in a galaxy far, far away, or today... the only good government is SMALL government. Opposite to that are just different versions of tyranny. Something Lucas can’t grasp.