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George Lucas wrote some stuff, and his ex-wife worked with him in some capacity. There were some that said George Lucas was a visionary genius and he also had a wife and so of course she was involved. There were some that said that George Lucas was a big self-important orangutan who couldn't write for shit, and his ex-wife fixed it all up and turned it into an epic story because she had some apparently pretty significant screenwriting talent. And who's to say? Surely there would be no way of going back in time and examining this intimate process in retrospect and finding out.

And then, the wife having left, he wrote the prequels without her involvement, and the world got its answer.

Lots of good points here. It would have been cool if Star Wars had a more complex geopolitical (galactopolitical?) environment, including more instances of multilateral politics.I feel like this was touched on in the prequels, but it still kinda boiled down to "good guys vs bad guys." The general audience will get what it wants. That's how markets are supposed to work.

Still, I feel like it was a missed opportunity to have a politically complex sequel rather than just dialing up the space-wizard lore. We could have also gotten some more complex characters rather than just bad guys or good guys that change at the end. People are way more complicated than that.

It probably would have been better if Warner Bros. Had acquired the IP rather than Disney. I'd watch HBO Star Wars all day long. I get why that wouldn't work for their marketing position, but it would have been worth it to me to hear an Ewok say, "Yub yub, motherfucker" before offing the imperial officer that burned his village.

Also, we learn that Tibbit the Ewok has a bad glowroot problem, wasn't entirely faithful to his partner, Nubni, and was a bit of a negligent father. His character doesn't really improve, but he does save the village. The resultant fame nearly destroys him, and he goes back to spicebark farming with his toxic affair partner. The Alliance turns out to be as oppressive to the Ewoks as the Empire, but they have better PR. The other Ewoks label Tibbit as a traitor for protesting the Alliance he fought for. Ewoks boycott his spicebark. He loses everything. Grikk finds his body, glowroot seeping out of his mouth. Clutched in his lifeless paw is a child's drawing. It was the one Grikk gave him on Father's Day over a decade ago. Tibbit had yelled at Grikk and thrown the drawing away in an intoxicated rage. That was the last time Grikk had seen Tibbit. To think he had dug it out of the trash and carried it for ao many years. Grikk held his dead father's paw with tears in his eyes. "Yub yub, Dad. Yub yub."

Okay, Shakespeare it's not, but tell me if it's worse than any scene in the sequels.

I thought I remembered hearing that the Endor fight was pretty explicitly Vietnam

One could make the argument that the Death Star is a stand-in for nuclear weapons, as literal weapon of mass destruction. There was notable political push to use nuclear weapons in the Vietnam war

This was not too long after there was notable political push to use nuclear weapons for heavy excavation and similar engineering purposes. Thankfully it was never actually performed since the results would obviously have been devastating

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